
Embark on a journey to master composing emotional music across styles, from sad and tragic to intimate and lush, using foundational guidelines and practical tips.
Explore how emotional music blends romance and beauty through lush harmonies, minimal rhythm, and sweeping melodies, using strings, woodwinds, and brass with lyrical voice leading and motion curves.
Develop your ear for emotional music by listening attentively to professional productions and analyzing tempo, key, harmonies, instruments, and production techniques.
Explore guidelines and tips for writing, composing, and producing emotional music, recognizing it as art with unlimited creative expression, while noting no set covers all sub styles and colors.
Explore how minor harmonies and intervals create emotional music, and how major keys can feel expressive through rhythm. Use D minor and G minor progressions with major and minor chords.
Master lyrical voice leading by creating smooth transitions between chords, harmonies, and melodic notes. Explore legato and portamento to connect notes with fluidity, enhancing the emotional quality of melodies.
Explore how emotional music unfolds through a slow tempo at 75 bpm in a G minor progression, with minor chords, dynamic curves, and minimal percussion to foreground melody and harmony.
Your Journey in Emotional Music
Hello Composers and Creative people! Do you want to learn how to compose emotional music? Music that touches your heart, and goes deep into your very soul.
You will learn how to compose anything from sad and tragic music, to tear-jerking lush and beautiful music, to intimate and soft emotional atmospheres. I will take you on a learning journey and adventure, where you will learn the secrets of composing and producing emotional music.
Learn the Foundations & Guidelines
Explore the Sounds & Colors
Discover Practical Tips & Insights
Get Live Examples & Demonstrations
Master Emotional Music
What is Emotional Music?
Let’s first define what emotional music is, because of course all music has emotion. By emotional music, I am referring to music that has that spark of beauty often connected to feelings of sadness, tragedy, longing, hope etc. Emotions that go deep and will make you feel the music in your heart and soul.
Emotional music, like all styles of music, comes in many different shapes and flavors. In truth, you have unlimited choices and flexibility as a composer to create whatever style of emotional music you want. However, in the next videos you will get practical tips, guidelines and examples of some of the most common styles of emotional music.
My name is Mike, and I am a composer.
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I started making music back in 1998. And I love to educate, motivate, and inspire creative people, like yourself.
So I ask you again. Are you ready to learn and master how to compose emotional music in any style you want. If your answer is yes. Take action, and begin your adventure, right now!