Songwriting/Composition Resources
On this page you will find required materials for lessons on songwriting and composition at Promethean Studios, and various other resources for these topics as well. The resources on this page are specifically for songwriting and composition, more generic resources (music stores, recording studios, etc) are listed here. At the time this information was entered, all links worked and products listed were available. For information purposes only; we won't post resources when we know there might be any sort of problem with a product, business, or person listed but please check out the reliability, appropriateness, and reputation of any resource you plan to use.
- These lessons: Most students who take these lessons want to learn how to write popular songs like on the radio or YouTube (Songwriting) OR to write more serious pieces, mostly instrumental, in classical, jazz, or movie score styles. However, these lesson could also include a mix of styles.
- Songwriting. Writing popular songs. These lessons are ½ writing new songs and ½ understanding music theory. The understanding of music theory allows you to create excellent songs independent of others. Songwriting students need to quickly learn to play a chording instrument at an extremely basic level. Learning this is for you, the student, so that someone else isn't writing half of each song for you (the chord structure). You don't have to play well, just enough to make a few chords. Students who do not play a chording instrument (ex., guitar, ukulele, mandolin, piano, etc.) should begin to learn enough of one of these instruments to create very basic chords.
- Composition and Arranging. This is writing instrumental or vocal music of a more serious nature, normally jazz, classical, or movie score oriented. Game music falls in this category. Instruction includes writing, arranging, scoring & orchestration, form & analysis, chords, chord function & analysis, ear training, music history, 16th - 20th century compositional techniques.
Jazz composition may be oriented towards either songwriting or composition.
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