Course Description

This Course will teach you how to compose beautiful, catchy and memorable melodies.


In this course, you will learn about the different attributes of a melody. You will learn about the pitch range of a melody. You will also learn about the contour of a melody. Furthermore, you will learn about musical phrases. Moreover, you will also learn about antecedent and consequent phrases. In addition to this, you will learn about other things.


This course is for:
  • People that want to learn how to compose melodies
  • People that want to learn how to make their melodies to be memorable and catchy

Course curriculum

    1. Introduction

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    2. Pitch, Bass and Treble Clefs, Stave, Ledger lines and the positioning of notes

    3. How to name the notes on a Music Sheet

    4. The Middle C | What is an Octave?

    5. How to easily remember the notes on a music sheet

    6. Letters/Names of the Keys on the Piano/Keyboard

    7. Explanation of 'Natural' , 'Sharp' , 'Flat' and 'Enharmonic Equivalent' Musical Notes

    8. How to correctly draw a Sharp sign and a Flat sign

    9. How Sharps and Flats are written on a Music Sheet

    10. What is an Accidental? | What are Accidentals?

    11. Different types of notes and their durations

    12. Musical Intervals

    13. Scales/How to build a major scale

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    14. Video for how to name the musical notes within a Major or Minor Scale Correctly

    15. All the Major Scales

    16. Minor Scales & Natural Minor Scales

    17. All the Natural Minor Scales

    18. Harmonic Minor Scales

    19. All the Harmonic Minor Scales

    20. Melodic Minor Scales

    21. Ascending and Descending Melodic Minor Scales explained

    22. All the Ascending and the Descending Melodic Minor Scales

    23. Why Major and Minor Scales are the building blocks of Music and what the Key of a piece of Music is

    24. An Alternative way of saying that a Song or any piece of Music is in a Major Key

    25. Scale Degree Numbers

    1. Melody Definition and the attributes of a Melody

    2. What is Pitch Range and what are its effects on a Melody?

    3. Musical Phrase/Musical Phrases

    4. A melody is usually formed from a Scale

    5. Tension and Resolution within a Melody

    6. Antecedent and Consequent Phrases

    7. The contour of a Melody

    8. Melodic Intervals | Difference between a Melodic Interval & a Harmonic Interval

    1. Major, Minor and Perfect Intervals

    2. Diminished and Augmented Intervals

    3. Extended Intervals

    4. Simple Intervals and Compound Intervals

    5. Detailed explanation of Simple Musical Intervals

    6. Detailed explanation of Compound Musical Intervals

    7. Tritone

    8. The Definition of a Chord and the Definition of Harmony

    9. Major, Minor, Augmented and Diminished Triad Chords

    10. Overview of Major Scale Triad Chords

    11. How to name the Chords that are within a Major or Minor Scale according to the law of Music Theory

    12. C Major Scale Triad Chords

    13. Sheet that shows all the Triad Chords in each of the 12 Major Scales

    14. Natural Minor Scale Triad Chords

    15. The Triad Chords in all the 12 Natural Minor Scales

    16. The Descending Melodic Minor Scale Triad Chords

    17. Melodic Minor Scale Triad Chords

    18. The Triad Chords in all the 12 Melodic Minor Scales

    19. Harmonic Minor Scale Triad Chords

    20. The Triad Chords in all the 12 Harmonic Minor Scales

    21. Number System for Chords within a Scale

    22. What is a Chord Progression?

    1. Ascending and Descending Melodic Intervals

    1. Conjuct Motion and Disjunct Motion

    1. The role of Rhythm in Melody Composition
  • 67 lessons