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Description
Learn Music Theory & Make Better Music
About the Harmony Bundle
How can you stand out as a producer? It starts with a solid foundation in music theory. If your melodies, chord changes or arrangements aren't working, your music won't work, no matter how good your other producing skills are. This bundle includes 3 courses covering all the foundations of music theory.
These courses are designed for electronic music producers - we are going to take the perspective of someone working inside a DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) - like Logic, Ableton Live, FL Studio.
No additional software required to use this bundle. Use with any DAW.
You Will Learn to:
- Finish More Tracks Faster: escape the 8-bar loop, understand modern arrangements that excite listeners from beginning to end.
- Write amazing chord progressions: chords, scales, from the basics to complex progressions.
- Create Original Melodies: learn the process for making melodies that capture listeners' attention
- + Much More
What You Get
- Course: Better Arrangements
- Course: Harmony & Chord Progressions
- Course: How To Write Melodies
- BONUS: Chord Vibes MIDI Pack - 500+ Midi Files
Learn Writing Chords and Progressions
About this Course
Do you have problems coming up with good sounding chords and progressions? Then this Step by Step guide is for you!
- Write chords. Starting with basics of harmony & chord progressions, you'll learn how to write awesome chord progressions for your own music.
- Practical. This course is made for electronic music producers, offering many practial examples and writing sessions for different styles.
- Detailed. It's like being together in the studio. We are commenting and explaining every step in detail, so you can follow along.
What you will learn from this course
Part 1: You are going to learn the basics of harmony and chord progressions.
Part 2: You will learn how to come up with great sounding harmonies and chord progressions and how to find voicings "that work" in your own compositions and make them sound more interesting.
Part 3: You will find practical writing sessions for different styles such as Deep House, Melodic Deep, Future Bass, EDM, Summer Vibes, Progressive House and Techno. Along the way, we are going through many nice sound examples and sharing a lot of our specific composition knowledge and experience.
Course Curriculum
- 20 - Chord Substitution (7:16)
- 21 - Example: Chord Substitution (5:26)
- 22 - Voicing (9:36)
- 23 - What makes a "good" Chord Progression? (6:21) Free Preview
- 24 - Analysis of a "good" Chord Progression (7:09) Free Preview
- 25 - Borrowed Chords (2:21)
- 26 - Parallel Minor - Chord Borrowing (2:26)
- 27 - Parallel Major/Minor Scales - More Chord Borrowing (5:21)
- 28 - Secondary Dominants (6:01)
- 29 - Diatonic Passing Chords (3:47)
- 30 - Chromatic Passing Chords (4:24)
- 31 - Modulation (2:32)
- 37 - Writing a Melody with the C Major Scale (Francois) (23:07)
- 38 - Writing a EDM-ish Melody with the A-Minor Scale (Francois) (11:30) Free Preview
- 39 - Creating an EDM Chord Progression and Melody (Tom) (22:33)
- 40 - Writing Tropical Summer House Chords and Melody in Amin (Tom) (29:19)
- 41 - Writing a Future Bass Track from Scratch (Tom) (39:10)
- 42 - Writing Progressive House Chords and Melody from Scratch (Tom) (27:34)
- 43 - Bonus Session: Writing Chords & Melody in the Style of "Snake" (16:49)
- 44 - Writing Session #1 - Chords and Melody - Melodic Deep / Techno (30:16)
- 45 - Writing Session #2 - Chords and Melody - Melodic Deep / Techno with Moog Bass (22:56)
- 46 - Writing Session #3 - Hirajoshi Scale (7:59)
- 47 - Writing Session #4 - EDM Progressive House "Dramatic" Progression in F-Minor (8:23)
- 48 - Writing Session #5 - Melodic Deep in Style of Caribou, Clawz SG, Anjunadeep (G# Minor) (33:15)
- 49 - Writing Session #6 - Chords & Melody in the Style of Blomqvist, Bohmer, Melodic Deep (14:49)
- 50 - Writing Session #7 - Chords & Melody using the Approach of Deadmau5 (9:42)
- 51 - Turning "Havana" Into A New Chord Progression And Melody - (Session with Alex) (16:12)
- 52 - Writing Session (No Comment) - Chords in the style of Armas, Dinka, EDX, Nore En Pure (9:28)
- 54 - Writing Session #8 - Writing 6 Chord Progressions (by ear) with Francois (31:04)
Write Better Melodies, Make Better Music
About this Course
Do you have problems writing catchy Melodies? Then this Step by Step guide is for you!
- Write melodies. Starting with the basic concepts around melodies, you'll learn how to come up with awesome melodies for your own music.
- Practical. This course is made for electronic music producers, offering many practial examples and writing sessions for different styles.
- Detailed. It's like being together in the studio. We are commenting and explaining every step in detail so you can follow along
- No extra software required.
What you will learn from this course
Part 1: We are going to learn the basic concepts around melodies, making use of many examples.
Part 2: We will take a deeper look into scales and modes as starting points for more advanced and intentional melody writing. We will learn how to come up with great melodies, using different scales and modes, "that work" in your own compositions and make them sound more interesting and unique.
Part 3: You will find practical writing sessions for different styles such as Deep House, Future Bass, EDM, Summer Vibes, Progressive House and Melodic Deep / Techno. Along the way, we are going through many nice sound examples and sharing a lot of our specific composition knowledge and experience.
Course Curriculum
- 1 - Melody Foundations 1: Tell a Story (5:20)
- 2 - Melody Foundations 2: Range (3:02)
- 3 - Melody Foundations 3: Q&A, Repetition & Variation (6:24)
- 4 - Melody Foundations 4: Steps, Skips, Leaps and Rhythm (9:24)
- 5 - Practical Session: Writing a simple Melody for Melodic Techno (16:46)
- 6 - Practical Session: Writing a simple Melody for EDM (6:59)
- 1 - How to Establish a Tonal Center for your Melody (7:54)
- 2 - Practical Session: Writing a simple Melody - Summer Beat (8:49)
- 3 - The Tritone: An Example (3:14)
- 4 - The Intervals Part 2 - Properties (11:59)
- 5 - Intervals: The Millennium Whoop (3:18)
- 6 - Beginner Scale Trick: Transpose to a Scale you know well (3:27)
- 7 - How to find Chords for any Melody (15:22) Free Preview
- 8 - Practical Session: Writing a simple Melody - Pop/Future Bass (11:54)
- 1 - Modes: Fundamental Concept 1 (8:05)
- 2 - Modes Example: Dorian (9:08)
- 3 - Modes: Fundamental Concept 2 (9:17)
- 4 - Modes: Fundamental Concept 3 (3:42)
- 5 - Modes Example Lydian + The Gist (7:41)
- 6 - Modes: Sum Up and Take Aways (4:22)
- 7 - Practical Session: Writing a Melody in F Phrygian (Festival Style) (14:16)
- 1 - Writing a Melody with the C Major Scale (Francois) (23:09)
- 2 - Writing a EDM-ish Melody with the A-Minor Scale (Francois) (11:32) Free Preview
- 3 - Creating an EDM Chord Progression and Melody (Tom) (22:35)
- 4 - Writing Tropical Summer House Chords and Melody in Amin (Tom) (29:21)
- 5 - Writing a Future Bass Track from Scratch (Tom) (39:12)
- 6 - Writing Progressive House Chords and Melody from Scratch (Tom) (27:36)
- 1 - Writing Session - Chords and Melody - Melodic Deep / Techno (30:16)
- 2 - Writing Session - Chords and Melody - Melodic Deep / Techno with Moog Bass (22:56)
- 3 - Writing Session - Hirajoshi Scale (7:59)
- 4 - Writing Session - EDM Progressive House "Dramatic" Progression in F-Minor (8:23)
- 5 - Writing Session - Uplifting Summer House Chords in C#-Minor (21:21) Free Preview
- Bonus Session: Writing "Snake" Chords & Melody (16:51)
Get Out of the Loop and Finish Your Tracks
About this Course
Is easy for you to come up with creative ideas and good loops but you have some trouble turning them into a whole song ?
Then this course is for you!
We take you from basic musical structures, to genre specific standards for many types of modern electronic music like Techno, Future Bass, Pop, House and Melodic Techno.
You will get a perfect starting point and a lot of practical tips & tricks for your productions. This course doesn't require any software.
What you will learn from this course
- How to escape an 8-bar loop
- Understand the basic concept of modern music
- Professional tips to structure your song
- How to structure your song so that it will fit the requirements
- Practical approaches to turn your ideas into a full songs
- Understand the characteristics of each part of a working arrangement
- Tension & release
- Energy vs. release
- The pop form
- Concept of contrast
- Proportions
- The subtractive approach
- The culmination drop
- The minimal drop
- The fancy drop
- Verse - construction part
- The build up
- The bridge
Course Curriculum
BONUS: 500+ MIDI files
Chord Vibes Midi Pack
What's Inside
- The package contains around 500+ high-quality MIDI files, including chord progressions (pads), plucks, arpeggios, leads, and bass midis.
- Check out the demo playback above, to get an idea, how the chords might sound.
- Especially the drum and snare-roll MIDIs are a lot of fun to play around with and save huge amounts of time!
- You don't need to have any specific software installed. MIDI Pack works with every DAW.
Tutorial: How To Find Chords For Any Melody
Take Your Skills to the Next LEVEL
Professional Tutors
For over 5 years Production Music Live has created educational content for electronic music producers. Over 10,000 students have purchased our courses and 200,000+ producers subscribe to our channels on Youtube and Instagram.
12+ Hours of Lessons
Over the course of 100+ lessons in arrangement, harmony, melodies and more you'll learn how to make original chord changes, catchier melodies, and arrangements that excite and engage your listeners.
Great Pricing
Similiar courses sell for hundreds of dollars, university courses in music theory can cost thousands of dollars, the Harmony Bundle offers more music theory education for a fraction of the price. You'll get lifetime access, go at your own pace, come back and rewatch lessons at anytime!
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When does the course start and finish?
The course starts now and never ends! It is a completely self-paced online course -
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you finish.
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After enrolling, you have unlimited access to the courses for as long as you like -
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What if I am unhappy with my order?
We would never want you to be
unhappy! If you are unsatisfied with your purchase, contact us in the first 48 hours and
we
will give you a full refund - due to the digital download nature of the optional sound
packs, we can only refund the courses parts. No refund on bulk / pack orders. One refund
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