Private Composition Lessons (30 Minutes)

This course is for any musician that wants to develop their music composition skills. Students will utilize traditional music theory techniques to create original composition.

Students will spend time learning learning new and different concepts about music theory and infusing these concepts into their compositions. Each week students will be assigned either a composition assignment or music analysis assignment. 

Major topics to be covered may include:
Notation- pitches, rhythm, meter
Scales, Keys, and Modes-scale degrees, key signatures (circle of 5ths), tonality, church modes, solfege
Transposing
Chords-Root, inversions, seventh chords
Roman Numeral Analysis
Cadences
More topics may be covered.

Though not necessary, it will be beneficial if students have access to a music software program.  This way when students are composing they can have the ability to listen to their personal composition pieces.