HARMONY ONE
$99
Online course. Lifetime access.
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TRANSFORM YOUR MUSIC WITH HARMONIC INTEREST
LEARN ESSENTIAL HARMONY SKILLS FOR COMPOSERS
This course will break down the fundamentals of harmony. We will cover how triad chords are built, basic chord patterns, and how to add harmonic interest to your pieces. This is a course for those looking to refine their knowledge of harmony, and start to craft professional compositions.
- Learn harmony from working film composers.
- Explore how to arrange for four-part harmony in major keys.
- Learn how to harmonise cadences and short phrases in three and four parts.
- How to use non-accented passing notes.
- Harmonic rhythm, and how to pace your arrangement.
- Construct effective bass lines.
What You'll Learn
PREPARATION
A revision of the basic harmonic knowledge, including tonality and triad chords.
CADENCES
CADENCES IN FOUR PARTS
How to harmonise perfect cadences in 4 parts, taking into consideration voicings and note doublings.
MORE CADENCES
How to harmonise the imperfect and plagal cadences in 3 and 4 parts.
FIRST INVERSION & INTERRUPTED CADENCE
Chord inversions and how to harmonise the interrupted cadence. You’ll learn how to avoid parallel fifths and different approaches to the perfect cadence.
Second inversions and how to use them along with more approaches to the perfect cadence. You will also start adding more chords to the basic pallet you have already learned.
REAL MUSIC
Start looking at the importance of the bass line as well as the note spacing above it. Here we familiarise you with the ranges of the vocalists and start writing for strings as well.
SHORT PHRASES
Harmonise complete short phrases and start considering harmonic rhythm.
FULL PHRASES
Harmonise longer phrases with the addition of more chords. You will also start adding interest to your harmony with non-accented passing notes.
RACHEL JAMES
Rachel James works as a composer, score programmer, orchestrator and score and part preparation copyist. She scored the award winning short animation Five O'Clock Shadow, which was shown at Cannes Film Festival. Rachel's work includes composing for American feature Crash Down Hearts, as well as cinematic trailers for the National Trust and two feature films for director Nihat Seven. Orchestrations include projects such as the James Bond: Goldeneye Reloaded video game.
GUY MICHELMORE
Guy Michelmore is a multi award-winning film, games and television composer whose clients include Marvel, Disney, Dreamworks, Lionsgate and dozens of major TV networks around the world. He is best known for his work with Marvel on eight animated feature films including Ultimate Avengers and Thor, as well as hundreds of episodes of television including Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, Iron Man: Armoured Adventures, Hulk and many more. His unique and accessible style has made him a popular YouTuber with over 300,000 subscribers.
"I really like this course a lot. Thanks to Rachel and Guy's explanations I have really understood the theory for the first time."
Niels Beck
Course student
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- Learn how to write for four-part harmony.
- Over 9 hours of video tutorials
- Comprehensive course text
- Learn directly from working media composers
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