Improve Your Songwriting Skills

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You've written a few songs, but have now reached a plateau. This learning path can help you take your songwriting skills to the next level by exploring the fundamentals of good songwriting, and then expanding your mastery of harmony, rhythm, and chords. You can then learn how to take your songwriting to a professional level and build a career around your creative muse.

Improve your foundational songwriting skills.
Explore rhythm, harmony, and chords as they apply to songwriting.
Build a fulfilling and profitable songwriting career.

Syllabus

Courses under this program:
Course 1: Music Theory for Songwriters: The Fundamentals
-Professional musician Julian Velard covers the basics of music theory through the lens of songwriting. Explore intervals, chord progressions, voice leading, song forms, and more.

Course 2: Music Theory for Songwriters: Harmony
-Learn music theory through the lens of songwriting. These tutorials cover the basics of harmony: minor scales, modes, 7th chords, modulations, and more.

Course 3: Music Theory for Songwriters: Rhythm
-Improve your songwriting process by factoring for rhythm and building rhythm. Explore note values, time signatures, feel, timing, dynamics, syncopation, and more.

Course 4: Songwriting Techniques with Chords
-Learn about writing songs with chords, and how altering chords can add depth to your music. Discover many ways to use chords from harmonizing a melody to forming an entire song.

Course 5: Write Think and Act Like a Professional Songwriter
-Want to know how to become a songwriter? Cliff Goldmacher shows what it takes to make it in the music business as a professional songwriter.

Course 6: The Business of Songwriting: First Steps
-Get started in the business of songwriting. Learn about all of the major organizations, rights, and procedures that songwriters have to deal with in the music business.

Course 7: 20 Unofficial Rules of Songwriting
-Professional songwriter Cliff Goldmacher reveals 20 unofficial songwriting rules that can make your songs more engaging and memorable.

Course 8: Learning Music Licensing
-Learn how to monetize songwriting by licensing your music. Learn what writing and recording you own, how income is generated, and how to strategically pitch your compositions.

Course 9: An Insider's Guide to Today's Music Biz: 8 Music Publishing
-Get started in music publishing. Learn how to sell your music and turn your songs into money.

Course 10: Pro Tools 2021 Essential Training: 101 - The Basics
-Get up and running with Pro Tools. Learn all of the fundamentals you need to get started, from creating your first session to bouncing down a final mix.

Course 11: Logic Pro X: Producing Music with Live Loops
-Learn how to produce music with the new Live Loops workflow in Logic Pro 10.5. Explore composition, sequencing, sampling, and mixing.

Course 12: Learning Songwriting: Ableton Live
-Learn how to capture your musical ideas quickly and turn them into great songs with Ableton Live.

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Learn how to use tried-and-true workflows for Ableton Live 11 alongside its new production tools to create music of all kinds.
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9 hours 3 minutes
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Learn how to how to compose, record, edit, and mix great sounding tracks with Logic Pro X, the flagship audio program from Apple.
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2 hours 53 minutes
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Learn music theory through the lens of songwriting. These tutorials cover the basics of harmony: minor scales, modes, 7th chords, modulations, and more.
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1 hour 35 minutes
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Improve your songwriting process by factoring for rhythm and building rhythm. Explore note values, time signatures, feel, timing, dynamics, syncopation, and more.
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2 hours 51 minutes
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Professional musician Julian Velard covers the basics of music theory through the lens of songwriting. Explore intervals, chord progressions, voice leading, song forms, and more.
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36 minutes
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Professional songwriter Cliff Goldmacher reveals 20 unofficial songwriting rules that can make your songs more engaging and memorable.
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37 minutes
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Get started in music publishing. Learn how to sell your music and turn your songs into money.
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1 hour 23 minutes
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Learn how to monetize songwriting by licensing your music. Learn what writing and recording you own, how income is generated, and how to strategically pitch your compositions.
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Learn about writing songs with chords, and how altering chords can add depth to your music. Discover many ways to use chords from harmonizing a melody to forming an entire song.
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1 hour 21 minutes
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Get started in the business of songwriting. Learn about all of the major organizations, rights, and procedures that songwriters have to deal with in the music business.
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1 hour 27 minutes
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Want to know how to become a songwriter? Cliff Goldmacher shows what it takes to make it in the music business as a professional songwriter.
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5 hours
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Get up and running with Pro Tools. Learn all of the fundamentals you need to get started, from creating your first session to bouncing down a final mix.