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How Do I Compose Like A Pro? Composing music is both an art and a skill that develops through practice, patience, and experience. Whether you're writing your first melody or looking to refine your craft, understanding how experienced composers approach their work can help you write music that connects with listeners. While every composer has a unique style, there are a few key principles that consistently lead to stronger, more memorable compositions that satisfy your listene

Beginning a piece, be it on a blank piece of paper or a computer screen can be really daunting. There are endless possibilities for melodies, harmonies, rhythms, instrumentation (not to even get started on the production element) and this can be hugely overwhelming. This becomes less terrifying with experience and practice so if there is one piece of umbrella advice to follow it is this - just keep writing and finish your pieces. The more you write, the better you get and the

Creating your very first piece of music can feel intimidating but it should be viewed as a special moment where you are taking your first step into a huge and beautiful world. Many people assume that composing music is something reserved for advanced pianists or professional musicians with years of theory training. In reality, some of the most beautiful piano music begins with very simple ideas. You do not need to be a virtuoso to start composing, you simply need curiosity, p

Whether you are a beginner or an experienced composer, you should always be striving to better your craft and plumb new depths of your style. Using targeted composition exercises can dramatically improve your musical ear and technical ability, having a direct knock-on impact on your confidence and creativity. Creativity is not only natural but also learnt and encouraged to grow. Try writing a melody using only three notes to limit yourself and force creativity. Choose three n

The Impressionist composers inhabited the latter period of the romantic period, roughly between 1890 and 1920, with atmospheric music that had ambiguity in both harmony and rhythm often granting an ethereal or otherworldly quality. The pieces often avoided traditional forms (such as sonata form) and moved away from holding to specific major or minor conventions, shifting between modes and utilising dissonances and chromatic passages freely. Aligned with the artistic movement

This is a question I’m asked oddly regularly and it is something I asked a composer (Jazz saxophonist Ned Bennett) many years ago that still makes me cringe with embarrassment. What does it mean to be a composer? Well, quite frankly, it’s someone who writes music. Sometimes that music is good and sometimes music is less good but the trick is to make sure that the music gets marginally better each time. As long as you follow the ‘Latest is the Greatest’ rule then you know that

Contemporary classical music has been dominated by the likes of Ludovico Einaudi, Philip Glass and Nils Frahms for the past thirty-odd years (longer in Einaudi’s case). This is entirely understandable as moving pieces such as Divenire (Einaudi), Glass’s Glassworks album (it’s all brilliant) and Frahms’ Ambre have inspiring melodies whilst being wonderfully simple in their execution. I’ve always thought that this is the strength of the Contemporary Classical movement - it main

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