Want to know how to compose music? How to write a song? But you have a lot of questions about it. Like: How do you find the right piano chords or guitar chords with your melody? What to do with non chord notes?

You want to know how classical composers and pop- or jazz-musicians did it, but you have no money or time for an expensive and extensive study at a high school or conservatory.

Don’t worry.

The way is a lot quicker, and much more satisfying.

But for those who are interested, lets move on.

On this site you will find all information necessary to create your own music. Compose music step by step. And hé, you might find out that it’s much easier than you thought … when you know how it is done!

The lessons introduce the basic aspects of musical composition. The three fundamental elements of music are melody, rhythm and harmony. In the first lessons you will learn the most basic features of these three, and at the end of these lessons you will be able to blend them together into a coherent song. This compose music course contains a wealth of examples, from every era of western musical history, that you can play on your keyboard or guitar. Of course, learning will be from the best and the most successful composers. The best melodies of Mozart, Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky, Chopin, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Elvis, Bernstein, Webber and many more are here to learn from.

Want to know how they did compose their music? Let these examples inspire you, and motivate you to start doing it yourself. In the first lessons, for convenience sake, all examples are transposed to C major (or it’s parallel A minor), to make sure that you really learn to identify the different ‘functions’ of the chords within the scale. The melody and chords are shown together in the beginning. After a while you will recognize the chord-symbols and it is no longer necessary to show the chords. At that point you got the picture, so, from then on only the melody with the chord-symbols is given. Only when something interesting happens in the harmony, or the accompaniment, will the chords be shown again. There are lot’s of examples and you will work through several exercises, all of which are existing melodies from music history. The classical masterpieces are there, but also the greatest pop, jazz and blues songs for you to explore.

Well, enough said. The lessons are recommended in this particular order, so that by the end, the basic principles of music composition can be applied. The lessons begin with an introduction to chords, chord symbols, inversions, and alterations. Contact Us.

Have fun!