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\uffe5The aim of this course is to help composers arrange more fluently at the piano by focusing on practicing the fundamental patterns of arrangement. By taking this course you will enhance your composing and arranging skills, as well as becoming a better piano player.<\/p>\n
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My name\u2019s Jack Vaughan. I\u2019m a composer and online educator and founder of LeanMusician.com. My courses have been taken by thousands of students in nearly 100 countries and my main thing is helping musicians write and practice music more effectively.<\/p>\n
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This is not a beginners course. This course follows on from my previous course, Music Composition at the Piano. The aim of that course was to give beginner musicians an amazing foundation in music theory and composition \u2013 or to give intermediate musicians a catchup on all the things they often miss. If you haven\u2019t taken that course, or don\u2019t feel totally confident with your level of music theory as it currently stands \u2013 then check it out before taking this one.<\/p>\n
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Performing musicians practice \u2013 all the time. That\u2019s how they get better. But how do you practice if you\u2019re a composer After you\u2019ve mastered a good level of music theory, and some basic keyboard skills \u2013 how do you really start absorbing new techniques & material and move from being an intermediate to professional<\/p>\n
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In my experience, there\u2019s two conventional bits of wisdom that professional composers usually say in answer to this: write lots of music on the job and listen to new music all the time.<\/p>\n
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Both of these are absolutely true and probably the best bits of advice you can get. If you\u2019re not already doing them, stop watching this video and do that solidly for a week and see what happens.<\/p>\n
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However, my guess is that you\u2019re already doing this, and it\u2019s not answering all your questions. The thing is, most early stage composers get stuck when writing \u2013 quite a lot. And it\u2019s really an issue of vocabulary.<\/p>\n
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Imagine I\u2019m trying to write in french but my level of vocabulary is limited \u2013 my writing is not going to be so good \u2013 no matter how much I write. Obviously I need to learn more words or standard patterns in the language and then try them out in my writing.<\/p>\n
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I could also try and read or listen to as much french as possible \u2013 but how much do I actually recognise and therefore absorb for my own writing<\/p>\n
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This is a perfect analogy for music. How can we write without a basic vocabulary of patterns and how can we emulate what we\u2019re listening to if we can\u2019t understand it<\/p>\n
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In language learning, there is a well known hack or trick to pushing through this stage much quicker than the average learner and it\u2019s to find the top 300 most used words or patterns in the language and to learn those first.<\/p>\n
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THIS is what we\u2019re doing in this course \u2013 except, obviously \u2013 we\u2019re doing it in music not french! This course teaches you the fundamental patterns of arranging in music in a practical way \u2013 at the piano. When you have these patterns under your belt you can:<\/p>\n
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#1 Start combining and manipulating them in many different ways.<\/p>\n
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#2 You start hearing these patterns everywhere! Which shows you music isn\u2019t as hard as you thought!<\/p>\n
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#3 You can deconstruct your favorite music and emulate it with ease<\/p>\n
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#4 You can develop musical ideas with ease and finally start finishing that pile of sketches that you have been building up! : )<\/p>\n
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My hope is that at the end of this course you\u2019ll have built up and continue to be building a powerful skillset at the piano and have a wealth of arranging principles on which to draw from. And my hope is that these two pillars will allow you to express your compositional ideas more fluently and more reliably.<\/p>\n
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Team DECiBEL<\/p>\n
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