Fundamentals of Music Composition
In this course, I’ll talk about the fundamentals of music composition, from mindset, to pre-compositional process, to form.
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Phase 1: Mindset
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Lesson 1: Intro and finding your North Star
In this lesson, I talk about what composing is and how to find your North Star so that you always know WHY you compose.
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Lesson 2: Mining Your Musical Gems
In this lesson I outline exactly what you need to start composing.
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Lesson 3: Overcoming Composer's Block
Every composer gets stuck at some point. In this lesson, I go into the reasons why and how to get unstuck.
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Phase 2: Preparing the Palette
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Phase 3: Form
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Lesson 1: Rethinking Form
In this lesson, I go into a general survey of past musical forms and how we can rethink form for our music in the 21st century.
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Lesson 2: Giving Form to Your Music
In this lesson, I demonstrate how you can take a simple idea and add development and form to it.
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Lesson 3: Open Form
There's another option for form: open form!
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Meet your instructor
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Meet your instructor ✳
Mathew Arrellín (pronounced: A-rre-yín), born in El Paso, Texas in 1993, is an award-winning composer and cellist currently based in Chicago. He is the founder of the Sound Painters Studio.
MATHEW ARRELLIN, PHD