
Why melody is so important, and how it exists in all music.
How to get the most out of the course, and how to navigate / use Udemy
In this lesson I take you through the seven features that appear in good melodies. Learn to identify and apply these features, and you'll be one step closer to being able to compose better melodies!
There are a limited number of materials that you can use to build a melody. And they're all revealed in this lesson!
Did you know how we talk literally affects how our melodies are written and interpreted? Let me show you how speech and language are musical, and how we can use that to our advantage.
We have a lot to get through in this section - we're going to explore all of the different scales and modes you can use to create more interesting melodies.
In this lesson I take you through the most common scales used in music.
If you want to take your melodic writing to the next level, you can start to introduce some of these more intermediate scales and modes into your composition.
Brace yourself, you're about to hear some insane names and sounds in these advanced modes. Covering the modes of the harmonic and melodic minors, these less-common keys will unlock new worlds for you to compose in.
Contour and tension & relief are the two elements that are going to keep your audience listening. In this lesson I take you through the methods of adding contour, tension, and relief to your compositions.
Being able to write a catchy hook is only half the battle - you also need to know how to build that hook out into a full melody. Here are the techniques you can use to do just that!
There's no point composing an amazing melody that only works on piano. Here's what you need to think about when composing for other instruments.
I take you through my tried and tested system of composing a standalone melody from scratch.
We don't always have the freedom of writing a melody without any other direction. Here's how to add a great melody to an existing chord sequence.
Countermelodies can help maintain momentum in your melodic writing. Here's how to write good ones!
When writing melodies for lower range instruments or voices, you have be aware of a number of things - all covered in this lesson.
No course from soundtrack.academy would be complete without some explanation of how what we're learning can be applied to film or media music. In this lesson I explain how you can work around dialogue and sound with your melodies.
There’s one fundamental thing in music that you can learn which will immediately improve your music compositions.
Without buying the latest sample libraries, without spending months or even years analysing the minute details of music orchestration, and the best news is that you probably already know a little about it.
And that’s melody.
In this melodic music composition course, you’ll learn:
A tried and tested method for composing better melodies from scratch
How to compose a strong melody over an existing chord sequence
What makes a good melody
How to compose countermelodies
The scales and modes you can use to compose more interesting melodies
I’ve taught literally hundreds of students how to compose music in person, and thousands more online, and I’ve also won awards internationally for my own music, but when I first start teaching a new group of students about composing melody, they often think it doesn’t apply to them.
Maybe you’re into death metal and don’t view that as melodic?
Or perhaps you’re writing minimalist music built on patterns or chord sequences?
Well…here’s the thing: you’re still writing melodic music.
As Leonard Bernstein said: “where there’s music there’s melody, you can’t have one without the other”
I remember one student in particular, Jamie, who was really into rap so didn’t think melody had much to do at all with what he was composing. During our first lesson we sat together and analysed some of his favourite tracks and he went wide eyed, amazed at just how many melodic elements there were in music that he himself had thought wasn’t melodic. He went on to write some of the most intricate, and interesting hip hop music I’ve heard for a long time.
So melodic music writing isn’t about composing “old-fashioned” symphonies or cheesy pop songs. It’s about writing better parts for any type of music.
Whether you’re a music producer with little formal musical training, or a classically trained musician frustrated about why your music isn’t connecting, my course on melodic music is going to help you learn to bring your compositions to life.
When you enrol:
You'll get lifetime access to the music composition program, where I walk you through all of the steps I use to create better melodies.
You’ll learn what to listen for while analysing your favourite music, all of the building blocks that are used to put a melody together,
I'll teach you a number of methods of creating and developing a melody, working with harmony, and creating counterpoint.
Remember that you’re protected by a 30-Day-Money-Back-Guarantee, no hard feelings, just in case you discover that the course isn’t right for you.
So if you’re ready to take your music composing to a new level, and to put in the work to get you there, click the “Buy Now” button now to enrol today.
See you in the course!
P.S. it isn't your mixing holding you back, you don't need a new sample library, and you don't need to be a musical prodigy to write great melodies. You just need to know what makes a good melody and apply that to your own compositions.
Enrol today and I'll show you exactly how.