Udemy Music Theory from Scratch

"Music Theory from Scratch" is a comprehensive online course that bridges the gap between music theory knowledge and tech expertise with the aim of taking your music to the next level. The course is designed and optimized for the modern musician and producer (eg. EDM producers, DJs, Beat makers): all music theory concepts are easily explained and immediately applied to make music in your DAW.

No need to read notes or play an instrument, the creative process explained here is in tune with how musicians produce music today and leverages on the power of new technologies so that you can become an "Inspired Master" and achieve your goals much faster.

Here’s What You’ll Get When You Sign Up:
Unlock the Undeniable Power of Music Theory: developing confidence with music theory starts with a firm grasp of the fundamentals. In this course you'll quickly learn all about them: notes, scales, chords, intervals, they are the alphabet of the musical language and it’s hard to do much without them. These basics apply to all music (whatever form or style) and you’ll be excited to see what you can accomplish once you'll start applying them to your music production process.

Take Your Music to the Next Level: there is no doubt that by gaining deeper insights about essential music theory concepts you will immediately bring your melodies and chord progressions to the next level. Each element of your music has an impact on the overall quality of your track. By the end of this course, you will have naturally improved your music simply by understanding the principles of music theory that you will learn and apply here.

Develop Your Creative Confidence: today you have extended access to thousands of plug-ins and virtual instruments. But if you don’t know what to do with them you will be overwhelmed by their limitless possibilities. Music theory will give you guidelines and principles to organize and expand your creative choices. Once completed this course, you'll have all the tools you need to write great chord progressions, melodies and bass lines. You will maximize your creativity, stop wasting your time playing around and develop the creative confidence you need to produce the music you really want.

Leverage on the Power of New Technologies: traditionally the way music theory is taught doesn't take into consideration that musicians today live in a golden age of tools and technology. This course will teach you tactics and strategies to minimize memorization (what you had to memorize centuries ago now it's obsolete, it would be like memorizing telephone numbers!) and speed up your creative process.

What Makes the "Making Music from Scratch" Course Different? The "Making Music from Scratch" course is not your average online course. Here are 4 reasons why:
Pragmatic & Implementation Focused: it’s nice to learn new things, but just learning won’t get better results for your music. That’s why this course is all about applying these concepts immediately in your DAW. That’s why all concepts and formulas are shown in hands-on demonstrations to help you get up and running much faster: you'll know exactly what to do once you're back to your gear. The value of this course comes from what you’ll do differently, not just from watching a bunch of video lectures.

Easily Understandable: I believe that anyone can learn Music Theory and my approach is to minimize memorization and clearly explain why some elements (eg. chords, scale) behave in certain ways. If you know my YouTube channel you will see that there is an entire video series dedicated to explain music theory concepts (in only 2 minutes) to people who don’t have any formal music education. And people seem to appreciate it!

Designed & Optimized for the Modern Musician: these classes use the same syllabus used by formal music education institutions (at a fraction of the cost) but the content is filtered: you will only learn what is relevant to Electronic Music Producers which will reduce unnecessary complexity and save you time. Also, the use of a Midi grid makes the process in tune with how musicians produce music today

Systematic Approach: this course will provide a systematic approach to the creative process. Sometimes it’s hard to even know where to start but in these classes you will learn several creative strategies that will help you come up with new ideas more easily and overcome the “writer’s block” every time you sit down to start writing and producing a new (amazing!) song.

What You’ll Discover in this Course
Frameworks to create amazing chord progressions & Bass lines: I know the feeling of staring into the void of a new empty project in your DAW and having absolutely no idea how to begin. There’s no better antidote to the writer’s block than having a flexible framework to get inspiration from. No matter what you know, if you never create you won't get anywhere. With these frameworks we'll make sure this doesn’t happen again.

The Ghost Method: How can you make sure that all notes, melodies and chords are correctly interacting with each other? The "Ghost Method" is your step-by-step recipe to do it!

How To Expand your harmonic palette: Great music has subtle nuances that sometimes we don't even perceive at a conscious level. Here you will learn how to expand your harmonic palette throught a set of tools that will add more colors to your music.

The Law of Attraction: Discover the relationship between notes and chords and how you can create a chord progression, bass line and melodies that works consistently throughout your track.

The Story telling Method: Discover how to create a continuous sense of tension and release, once you understand this principle you'll make your music more interesting and engaging.

The Map to understand modulation: As human beings we like to travel and see new things, right? It's the same for our listeners: they don't want a song, they want an experience. Modulation is one of the best way to show them new horizons; here you will get a map to use it properly.

What you'll learn
Take Your Music to the Next Level: by gaining deeper insights about essential music theory concepts you will immediately bring your music to the next level
Unlock the Undeniable Power of Music Theory: developing confidence with music theory starts with a firm grasp of the fundamentals
Develop Your Creative Confidence: music theory will give you guidelines and principles to organize and expand your creative choices
Leverage on the Power of New Technologies: traditionally the way music theory is taught doesn't take into consideration the power of modern technology