Today, we're taking the immensely popular melody for Claire de Lune by Debussy and learning how to write our own melody out of it. Just like last week, we're stealing a...

Today, we're learning how to write a melody like Beethoven. Good ol' Ludwig Van...But instead of straight mimicry, we're going to take elements of Beethoven's music to use...

It's important to stand on the shoulders of past masters. In this case, we can glean how great composers handled changing registers in a melody. Oh and there's an example...

When we foreshadow a melody, we're making it feel inevitable – like it was always meant to happen. This feeling of inevitability is really not all that hard to...

When we write a melody, sometimes we need a harmony to go long with it. Today I'm sharing a powerful tip rooted in voice leading to ensure your harmony sounds amazing,...

What does Mozart, The Lord of The Rings, and Tears for Fears have in common? A powerful melodic technique to make your music sound great. Today, I’m sharing their...

Have you ever wondered where the music you write, or anyone writes, actually comes from? Isn’t it weird we can just take brainwaves and turn them into physical...

Today I'm showing you how to write music like Black Sabbath's song Paranoid. This is an iconic guitar melody that a ton of musicians are more than familiar with, but...

Telling whether or not our melody is actually good can be a huge pain point all us songwriters and composers have to weather at some point. But fret not – I’ve...

We can’t all be amazing singers, and I’m certainly not one. Thankfully, if you’ve had pitch issues like me, we can go in and tune our vocals so they...

Periphery is one of my favorite bands at the moment, so today we're learning the intro riff/melody for "The Way the News Goes" off the album Periphery III: Select...

I was recently asked by a student whether it’s a good or a bad thing to record, mix, and master, your own music. So today, we’re diving into the pros and cons,...