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To build, or not to build – Udemy Course Creation
After finishing Music Theory for the Guitarist, I began experimenting with how to bring the material to life in video form. Today’s test combined rough scripts, slides, and audio to explore what makes an online course feel alive — and how movement on screen transforms learning.
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I Finally Shared My Music – And the Feedback Surprised Me
I have shied away from posting things on the ThinkSpace Education Discord server but a while back I decided to bite the bullet and shared an uplifting composition exercise from the Mastering Orchestral Composition with Spitfire Audio course. The assignment was to continue a piece of music to create an uplifting mood. I didn’t expect…
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EDM Maybe?
I thought I would share an assignment for a course I am following. It is a pretty general course that I have previously posted about and appears to emphasize the business aspects of the instructors business that he has built, with only a small portion actually about the topics that are highlighted in the title…
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Course: Film, TV, & Video Game Music Composition + Production Basic – Steven Melin
I have just started the course Film, TV, & Video Game Music Composition + Production Basic by Steven Melin. Steven Melin also wrote the book that I reviewed a while ago (paid link) The Family First Composer. It was interesting for me to come across this course as I really enjoyed the book that he…
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How to Write Music – completed
I have just finished the ThinkSpace Education How to Write Music course which was very interesting and informative. It was good to have a structured course on the elements of writing music and the pillars of writing music The course was very well presented by Guy Michelmore and there were plenty of interesting videos to…
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Melody Assignment
This assignment from the How to Write Music course from ThinkSpace Education was about writing melodies and fitting them together with a harmonic progression. This was an interesting module looking at the idea of developing motifs to create melodic lines and how to fit harmonic progressions to melodic lines given the case when your initial…
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Harmony Assignment
This assignment from the How to Write Music course from ThinkSpace Education was concerning harmony and how it works with a melodic line. Initially this module dealt with diatonic chords and how to create a fundamental harmonic progression and then looked at ways in which to make things more interesting. In particular the idea of…
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Ideas Assignment
The assignment for module 2 of the How to Write Music course from ThinkSpace Education – should I choose to accept it, which I will, is to work on some ideas for motifs, harmonic progressions, or rhythms. The philosophy behind this is to work on generating and recognizing ideas, particularly for motifs and removing the…
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How to Write Music – Progress
I have now completed the first few modules of the ‘How to Write Music’ course from ThinkSpace Education and I think that it is going pretty well. I am enjoying it at least, which is important, and I am also learning things which is also important. The course is very well presented and the videos…
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How to Write Music Course
Now that I have completed the Getting Started with Songwriting course, my next foray into the ThinkSpace Education courses is a short course, rather than a free course, called How to Write Music. I am looking forward to this as I do all of the ThinkSpace courses. I have been learning a lot and having…