Udemy Music Theory for Electronic Producers The Complete Course [TUTORiAL]

Music producer, sound engineer and composer Tomas George, who has been producing and writing music now for over ten years will teach you how to write and create music effectively will dramatically improve the quality of your music and the speed you create it.

What Will You Learn?

• The Keyboard layout and major and minor scales
• Chords and Inversions
• Major and Minor chord progressions
• How to Analyse the music theory in electronic tracks
• Writing Melodies and bass parts
• Modes and other scales

In this course, you will gain a deep understanding of Music Theory and ideas techniques and formulas to use when creating your own electronic music to allow you more options. You'll learn the beauty and the power of music theory that's used by professionals today.

This course will cover such topics as major scales, minor scales, major chords, minor chords, diminished chords, chord progressions, modulation, relative majors, relative minors, modes, song analyse, deconstructed several tracks, writing a song from a drum beat, how to write a song from a chord progression, how to write a song from a melody, how to write melodies, how to write harmonies, how to work out keys and scales, pentatonic scales, and more.

Who is the target audience?

• Those with basic music production and composing skills who wish to improve at music theory
• New and experienced electronic music producers who want to deepen their knowledge
• Experienced electronic producers who want to advance at music theory
• Those interested in creating their own music or being better at music production

Course paragraphs:

• Introduction
• Basic Music Theory Terms
  Explanation of some music theory terms that will be used in this course. What the different music theory terms actually mean.
• Keyboard Layout and Octaves
  Tomas talk about the keyboard layout on your Digital Audio Workstation and how you can work out the different notes on the keyboard. Knowing the notes of a keyboard is essential for knowing about music theory and for writing your own music.
• Working out Major Scales
  In this Music Theory for Electronic Music Producers lecture Tomas explain the techniques used to work out a major scale and how you can easily do this for any musical key.
• Perfect 5ths
  Tomas explain what Perfect 5ths are and how you can use them for writing harmonies for your own music.
• 3rds
  Tomas explain what 3rds and how you can tell the difference between major 3rds and minor 3rds. He also explain why you should use 3rds for writing music.
• Perfect 4ths
  Tomas explain what Perfect 4ths are and how you can use them.
• Chords and Inversions
  Tomas show you how to write chords and also invert these chords. Creating chords and using inversions is an essential to learn for creating your own electronic music.
• Chord Progressions
  Tomas explain what chords progressions are and how to write your own. He also show you some of the most common chords progressions used in music today!.
• Inversions
  Tomas go into more detail about inversions and how you can use inversions to improve the some of your chords for your own electronic music.
• 7th Chords
  Tomas George talk about 7th chords and explain the different types of 7th chords.
• Chord Extensions
  Tomas talk about more chord extensions, such as 9th and 11th chords and how you can use them.
• Suspended Chords
  In this lecture Tomas talk about suspended chords and how you can use them to create suspension.
• Circle of 5ths
  Tomas explain the circle of 5th diagram and how you can use this to work out relative majors, minors and modulation.
• Minor Scales
  Tomas talk about minor scales and the patterns and techniques used so that you can work about any minor scale.
• Chords in the Natural Minor scale
  In this lecture you will learn how to build chords in the natural minor scale.
• Harmonic and Melodic Minor
  Tomas talk about the other two minor scales, which are the Harmonic and Melodic Minor and what they can be used for and also patterns and techniques so that you can work out these minor scales.
• Write the Chords, then the Melody
  Tomas show you how to write a song starting by writing chords and then adding a melody. This technique is very common and in this lecture we use some the patterns and techniques used from the previous lecture for building a song from chords.
• Write the Melody, then the Chords
  Tomas show how to write a song starting by writing melody and then adding the chords.This technique is also very common and in this lecture we use some the patterns and techniques used from the previous lecture for building a melody.
• Arpeggios
  Tomas show you how you can use arpeggios to add more more movement and countermelodies for your songs
• Writing Bass Parts
  Tomas show you how to write bass parts for your own music
• Writing Bass Riffs and Adapting Melodies
  Tomas show you how to write bass riffs and also how you can adapt your melodies.
• Song Analysis - Chords (3 Songs)
  Tomas show you 3 his tracks and he deconstruct and show you how and why he wrote the chords like this.
• Song Analysis - Melody (3 Songs)
  Tomas show you 3 his tracks and he deconstruct and show you how and why he wrote the melody like this.
• Song Analysis - Arrangement (3 Songs)
• Create a Song from a Drum Beat
  Tomas show you how to create a song starting from a drum beats and then building a track from there.
• Create a Song from a Chord Progression
  Tomas show you how to create a song starting from a chord progression and then building a track from there.
• Create a Song from a Melody
  Tomas show you how to create a song starting from a melody and then building a track from there.
• Modes: Modes Intro, Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian, Locrian, Dorian Mode Example - Tomas talk about what modes are and how you can use modes for your own music.
• Pentatonic Scales
  Tomas talk about what the major and minor pentatonic scale are and how you can use them. He also give an on-screen example of the major and minor pentatonic scale and how to use these scales with either a major or minor chord progression.

What you'll learn in this course will make you a better music producer, and improve your songwriting abilities in any Digital Audio Workstations!

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