
Set up an ergonomic, productive studio with keyboard and mouse at optimal height, keep the main MIDI keyboard within easy reach, and add ambient lighting and acoustic panels for inspiration.
Map articulations to key switches to speed up your music workflow. Use articulation sets across instrument patches, visualize articulations in the piano roll, and save presets for faster production.
Learn the core story track, a piano-based approach that centers the melody and bass to imply harmony, with optional chorus and rhythm for a focused music composition.
Choose performance instruments with very low latency and favor sustained patches for quick sketching, then ensure articulations translate cleanly across libraries like cinematic studio strings and Zinna Brass Pro.
Explore how to superspeed your music composition workflow from start to finish by using an efficient orchestral template, folder structure, and notation prep, while delivering client-ready results through streamlined processes.
Explore two chord plug-ins to speed your workflow, using scalar to visualize chords and detect key and progression. Drag diatonic chords and use Captain Chords for rhythm.
Learn How to Become an Efficient Music Composer
Making music is a creative process, and you want to be in "the flow" when you make music. Basically you want to take the great ideas you have in your head, and turn them into parts and performances in music, as fast as you can.
In this course you will learn many ways you can increase this flow, and become a much more productive composer. You will learn:
Efficient Workflow Systems
Quick Mockup & Sketching Techniques
Great Productivity Tools
However, keep in mind that what is most important, is that you find workflow techniques that suits YOU. Because everyone is different, and have different ways and preferences of how you work efficiently. I am personally a huge believer in creating an environment that improves your creative workflow. This means your studio hardware and software as well as the vibe and atmosphere. I am also a fan of creating systems that speeds up your creative process. I will teach you all my favorite workflow systems as well as productivity tools, and I hope you will try them out, and also use them as inspiration to come up with your own workflow and productivity boosters for music creation.
We who teach this course are 2 composers with decades of experience making music. We think it will also be beneficial for you to get 2 different perspectives on workflow and productivity in this course.
Good luck, and let’s get started! =)
Mikael Baggström and Zach Heyde