Inside the Score

How to Sound Like Any Composer You Love

17K views · 1mo ago · 11:28

Build your dream composer portfolio → In the Composer Training Studio, you train like a working composer. Professional-style briefs mean you always know what to write next, and a repeatable, professional-level workflow means you finish what you start. You learn the techniques of great composers and then actually use them, and you follow our blueprint to find and develop your own sound.

Topics: How to learn any style: Nadia Boulanger's method · Stuck and sounding the same: Boulanger's three steps · What memorising John Williams did to my orchestration · Why it works: learning music from the inside · 1. Chunking: what chess masters really remember · 2. Prediction: start hearing what comes next

The 5 Levels of Harmonic Tension (and How to Level Up)

56K views · 1mo ago · 18:40

Build your dream composer portfolio → In the Composer Training Studio, you train like a working composer. Professional-style briefs mean you always know what to write next, and a repeatable, professional-level workflow means you finish what you start. You learn the techniques of great composers and then actually use them, and you follow our blueprint to find and develop your own sound.

Topics: Why this chord wants to resolve · Level 1: Establishing gravity (why notes 4 and 7 pull home) · Level 2: Increase the ache (altered notes, Scriabin and the French sixth) · Mahler 2: every tension at once · Level 3: Prolong the longing (one chord that faces two ways) · Level 4: Raising the temperature (the chromatic rising line)

My Complete Composing Workflow (Start to Finish)

34K views · 2mo ago · 1:01:55

Build your dream composer portfolio → In the Composer Training Studio, you train like a working composer. Professional-style briefs mean you always know what to write next, and a repeatable, professional-level workflow means you finish what you start. You learn the techniques of great composers and then actually use them, and you follow our blueprint to find and develop your own sound.

Topics: The Course Outline · How To Actually Get Good at Composing · How This Builds Your Voice · The Full Workflow · Creating Your Brief · Creative Phase: Ideas & Development

How to Stretch a Climax (Like John Williams)

11K views · 11mo ago · 7:59

Build your dream composer portfolio → In the Composer Training Studio, you train like a working composer. Professional-style briefs mean you always know what to write next, and a repeatable, professional-level workflow means you finish what you start. You learn the techniques of great composers and then actually use them, and you follow our blueprint to find and develop your own sound.

Topics: Why this climax hits so hard · The real principle behind powerful arrivals · Fragment and repetition · The anchor underneath everything · The upward pull · The almost-right moment

Tchaikovsky’s Formula for Explosive Climaxes

39K views · 1y ago · 12:50

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Topics: Tchaikovsky's Climax Formula · The Nutcracker: How He Builds This Climax · Symphony No. 5: How He Builds This Climax · Symphony No. 6: How He Builds This Climax · All Six Moves in Action · How to Apply This in Your Own Writing

The Composer Roadmap I Wish I Had at 18

219K views · 1y ago · 28:01

Build your dream composer portfolio → In the Composer Training Studio, you train like a working composer. Professional-style briefs mean you always know what to write next, and a repeatable, professional-level workflow means you finish what you start. You learn the techniques of great composers and then actually use them, and you follow our blueprint to find and develop your own sound.

Topics: Pillar 1: Listening · Pillar 2: Harmony · Pillar 3: Counterpoint · Pillar 4: Form · Pillar 5: Orchestration · Pillar 6: Musicianship

How to Change Key Like John Williams

85K views · 1y ago · 8:03

Build your dream composer portfolio → In the Composer Training Studio, you train like a working composer. Professional-style briefs mean you always know what to write next, and a repeatable, professional-level workflow means you finish what you start. You learn the techniques of great composers and then actually use them, and you follow our blueprint to find and develop your own sound.

Topics: The Secret to Key Changes · What Theory Gets Wrong · The Bassline Trick · Stick the Landing · Topline Clues & Hidden Lines · Want to Practice This?

What if Rachmaninoff Scored This?

10K views · 1y ago · 13:37

Build your dream composer portfolio → In the Composer Training Studio, you train like a working composer. Professional-style briefs mean you always know what to write next, and a repeatable, professional-level workflow means you finish what you start. You learn the techniques of great composers and then actually use them, and you follow our blueprint to find and develop your own sound.

Topics: Concept · Part 1: Score Study · Part 2: Sketch Planning · Part 3: Orchestrating

If your music feels flat, this is why.

40K views · 1y ago · 16:45

Build your dream composer portfolio → In the Composer Training Studio, you train like a working composer. Professional-style briefs mean you always know what to write next, and a repeatable, professional-level workflow means you finish what you start. You learn the techniques of great composers and then actually use them, and you follow our blueprint to find and develop your own sound.

How John Williams Composed the Perfect Finale

28K views · 1y ago · 17:47

Build your dream composer portfolio → In the Composer Training Studio, you train like a working composer. Professional-style briefs mean you always know what to write next, and a repeatable, professional-level workflow means you finish what you start. You learn the techniques of great composers and then actually use them, and you follow our blueprint to find and develop your own sound.

Topics: John Williams' Composing Method · Step One: Melody · Step Two: Harmony · Step Three: Countermelody · Step Four: Final Melody · Step Five: Enhancing Energy

Most musicians learn harmony wrong

687K views · 1y ago · 10:06

Build your dream composer portfolio → In the Composer Training Studio, you train like a working composer. Professional-style briefs mean you always know what to write next, and a repeatable, professional-level workflow means you finish what you start. You learn the techniques of great composers and then actually use them, and you follow our blueprint to find and develop your own sound.

Topics: Harmony · How do we analyse this? · Voice Leading · Understanding the Prelude · Mazurka in A minor · Sublime examples

I Quit This Channel… But Now I Know Why

18K views · 1y ago · 3:15

Build your dream composer portfolio → In the Composer Training Studio, you train like a working composer. Professional-style briefs mean you always know what to write next, and a repeatable, professional-level workflow means you finish what you start. You learn the techniques of great composers and then actually use them, and you follow our blueprint to find and develop your own sound.

Topics: Why I Left · Why I'm Back · The Free Challenge · I Need Your Help

How She Fills Concert Halls Around the World - Aubrey Bergauer

12K views · 2y ago · 40:21

Guest: Aubrey Bergauer

Build your dream composer portfolio → In the Composer Training Studio, you train like a working composer. Professional-style briefs mean you always know what to write next, and a repeatable, professional-level workflow means you finish what you start. You learn the techniques of great composers and then actually use them, and you follow our blueprint to find and develop your own sound.

📖 Mentioned book: Run It Like A Business

How to Save Classical Music

102K views · 2y ago · 20:13

Build your dream composer portfolio → In the Composer Training Studio, you train like a working composer. Professional-style briefs mean you always know what to write next, and a repeatable, professional-level workflow means you finish what you start. You learn the techniques of great composers and then actually use them, and you follow our blueprint to find and develop your own sound.

Topics: Problems · Solutions

We Tried to Create the Most Epic Christmas Song Possible...

8K views · 2y ago · 13:49

Build your dream composer portfolio → In the Composer Training Studio, you train like a working composer. Professional-style briefs mean you always know what to write next, and a repeatable, professional-level workflow means you finish what you start. You learn the techniques of great composers and then actually use them, and you follow our blueprint to find and develop your own sound.

Topics: We're Creating An Epic Christmas Carol · Stage One - The Ideation Phase · Stage Two - The Planning Phase · Stage Three - The Writing Phase · Stage Four - Recording · The Finale

What Makes Stravinsky's Music Revolutionary?

101K views · 3y ago · 19:19

Build your dream composer portfolio → In the Composer Training Studio, you train like a working composer. Professional-style briefs mean you always know what to write next, and a repeatable, professional-level workflow means you finish what you start. You learn the techniques of great composers and then actually use them, and you follow our blueprint to find and develop your own sound.

Topics: Early Life and First Major Works · The Firebird · Petrushka · The Rite of Spring · The Russian Period and Primitivism · Les Noces

What Are Modes? A Guide to Composers' Techniques

101K views · 3y ago · 15:50

Build your dream composer portfolio → In the Composer Training Studio, you train like a working composer. Professional-style briefs mean you always know what to write next, and a repeatable, professional-level workflow means you finish what you start. You learn the techniques of great composers and then actually use them, and you follow our blueprint to find and develop your own sound.

Topics: Ionian Mode · Dorian Mode · Phrygian Mode · Lydian Mode · Mixolydian Mode · Aeolian Mode

How Film Composers Write Music for Machines

15K views · 3y ago · 11:04

Build your dream composer portfolio → In the Composer Training Studio, you train like a working composer. Professional-style briefs mean you always know what to write next, and a repeatable, professional-level workflow means you finish what you start. You learn the techniques of great composers and then actually use them, and you follow our blueprint to find and develop your own sound.

Topics: Ex Machina · Historic Example: Metropolis · The Matrix · The Imitation Game · What Does A Machine Sound Like?

Why The Organ Is The Future of Music

185K views · 3y ago · 15:35

Build your dream composer portfolio → In the Composer Training Studio, you train like a working composer. Professional-style briefs mean you always know what to write next, and a repeatable, professional-level workflow means you finish what you start. You learn the techniques of great composers and then actually use them, and you follow our blueprint to find and develop your own sound.

Topics: Why the Organ Will Change Things · A Quick History - How the Organ Developed · Where to Find Great Organ Music · The Symphonic Organ · Radical French Developments · The Modern Organ

Why Listen to Bruckner?

181K views · 3y ago · 14:05

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Topics: Early Life · Influences · Bruckner's Strangeness · His Academic Excellence · First Major Works · Why Listen, Reason #1

The Truth About Vivaldi's Four Seasons

132K views · 3y ago · 15:06

Build your dream composer portfolio → In the Composer Training Studio, you train like a working composer. Professional-style briefs mean you always know what to write next, and a repeatable, professional-level workflow means you finish what you start. You learn the techniques of great composers and then actually use them, and you follow our blueprint to find and develop your own sound.

Topics: What You Didn't Know About The Four Seasons · Spring · Summer · Autumn · Winter

Does This App Revolutionize the Classical Experience?

19K views · 3y ago · 7:25

Build your dream composer portfolio → In the Composer Training Studio, you train like a working composer. Professional-style briefs mean you always know what to write next, and a repeatable, professional-level workflow means you finish what you start. You learn the techniques of great composers and then actually use them, and you follow our blueprint to find and develop your own sound.

Topics: Why Your Experience Matters · Expertly Created Playlists · How to Explore More Deeply · Streamlined Browsing · Smart Searching for Music · Spatial Audio and Atmos

Shostakovich: How to Compose a Massacre

349K views · 3y ago · 10:58

Build your dream composer portfolio → In the Composer Training Studio, you train like a working composer. Professional-style briefs mean you always know what to write next, and a repeatable, professional-level workflow means you finish what you start. You learn the techniques of great composers and then actually use them, and you follow our blueprint to find and develop your own sound.

Topics: Bloody Sunday · Program Music Reflecting Reality · How to Compose a Massacre (Shostakovich's 11th) · Fugere... · In the wake of tragedy... · Tocsin, A Warning Bell

Why Listen to Rachmaninoff?

472K views · 3y ago · 14:18

Build your dream composer portfolio → In the Composer Training Studio, you train like a working composer. Professional-style briefs mean you always know what to write next, and a repeatable, professional-level workflow means you finish what you start. You learn the techniques of great composers and then actually use them, and you follow our blueprint to find and develop your own sound.

Topics: Early Life · Prelude in C# Minor · Death as a Motif · Piano Concertos · The 2nd Piano Concerto · Best Known Works

How Composers Use Synesthesia

20K views · 3y ago · 8:36

Build your dream composer portfolio → In the Composer Training Studio, you train like a working composer. Professional-style briefs mean you always know what to write next, and a repeatable, professional-level workflow means you finish what you start. You learn the techniques of great composers and then actually use them, and you follow our blueprint to find and develop your own sound.

Topics: The Hidden Sixth Sense · Olivier Messiaen · Alexander Scriabin · The Mystic Chord · Why does this all matter?

How L'Orfeo Changed Opera Forever

55K views · 3y ago · 12:39

Build your dream composer portfolio → In the Composer Training Studio, you train like a working composer. Professional-style briefs mean you always know what to write next, and a repeatable, professional-level workflow means you finish what you start. You learn the techniques of great composers and then actually use them, and you follow our blueprint to find and develop your own sound.

Topics: Monteverdi's Background · Humanism · Music and Humanism · Seconda Practica · The Genres that Led to Opera · L'Orfeo

How Beethoven Revolutionized the Symphony

160K views · 3y ago · 11:04

Build your dream composer portfolio → In the Composer Training Studio, you train like a working composer. Professional-style briefs mean you always know what to write next, and a repeatable, professional-level workflow means you finish what you start. You learn the techniques of great composers and then actually use them, and you follow our blueprint to find and develop your own sound.

The Celesta - The Sound of Heaven?

145K views · 3y ago · 8:42

Build your dream composer portfolio → In the Composer Training Studio, you train like a working composer. Professional-style briefs mean you always know what to write next, and a repeatable, professional-level workflow means you finish what you start. You learn the techniques of great composers and then actually use them, and you follow our blueprint to find and develop your own sound.

How Mozart Changed Opera Forever

102K views · 3y ago · 17:27

Build your dream composer portfolio → In the Composer Training Studio, you train like a working composer. Professional-style briefs mean you always know what to write next, and a repeatable, professional-level workflow means you finish what you start. You learn the techniques of great composers and then actually use them, and you follow our blueprint to find and develop your own sound.

Topics: Mozart's Operatic Ambitions · The Marriage of Figaro · Don Giovanni

Russia's Most Influential Composer...

245K views · 3y ago · 14:52

Build your dream composer portfolio → In the Composer Training Studio, you train like a working composer. Professional-style briefs mean you always know what to write next, and a repeatable, professional-level workflow means you finish what you start. You learn the techniques of great composers and then actually use them, and you follow our blueprint to find and develop your own sound.

Topics: Early Life · The Mighty Handful · Master of Orchestration and Storytelling · Antar · Legacy

Why Is This Music So Memorable? How to Train Your Dragon

743K views · 4y ago · 9:57

Build your dream composer portfolio → In the Composer Training Studio, you train like a working composer. Professional-style briefs mean you always know what to write next, and a repeatable, professional-level workflow means you finish what you start. You learn the techniques of great composers and then actually use them, and you follow our blueprint to find and develop your own sound.

Topics: Unique Sound Palettes · Repetition · Pentatonicism

Opera and Ballet: How We Missed the Point Entirely

55K views · 4y ago · 11:45

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Topics: La Donna e Mobile · The Temple Duet · The Dance of the Knights · Swan Lake

Why Listen to Liszt?

560K views · 4y ago · 16:53

Build your dream composer portfolio → In the Composer Training Studio, you train like a working composer. Professional-style briefs mean you always know what to write next, and a repeatable, professional-level workflow means you finish what you start. You learn the techniques of great composers and then actually use them, and you follow our blueprint to find and develop your own sound.

Topics: Chapter 1: Youth · Chapter 2: Intermezzo · Chapter 3: Years of Pilgrimage · Chapter 4: King of the Piano · Chapter 5: Finale

Why Ravel Wrote a Concerto... For Only One Hand??

231K views · 4y ago · 11:23

Build your dream composer portfolio → In the Composer Training Studio, you train like a working composer. Professional-style briefs mean you always know what to write next, and a repeatable, professional-level workflow means you finish what you start. You learn the techniques of great composers and then actually use them, and you follow our blueprint to find and develop your own sound.

▶️ Mentioned videos: Video on youtube.com

Grand Budapest Hotel: How to Write Music for a Fake Country

104K views · 4y ago · 7:43

Guest: Grand Budapest Hotel

Build your dream composer portfolio → In the Composer Training Studio, you train like a working composer. Professional-style briefs mean you always know what to write next, and a repeatable, professional-level workflow means you finish what you start. You learn the techniques of great composers and then actually use them, and you follow our blueprint to find and develop your own sound.

Why Listen to Haydn? His Life and Music

174K views · 4y ago · 18:41

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Grieg's Peer Gynt - How to Create a World in 4 Bars

53K views · 4y ago · 13:32

Guest: Grieg's Peer Gynt

Build your dream composer portfolio → In the Composer Training Studio, you train like a working composer. Professional-style briefs mean you always know what to write next, and a repeatable, professional-level workflow means you finish what you start. You learn the techniques of great composers and then actually use them, and you follow our blueprint to find and develop your own sound.

Satie's Furniture Music: Designed to be Ignored?

61K views · 4y ago · 16:36

Guest: Satie's Furniture Music

Build your dream composer portfolio → In the Composer Training Studio, you train like a working composer. Professional-style briefs mean you always know what to write next, and a repeatable, professional-level workflow means you finish what you start. You learn the techniques of great composers and then actually use them, and you follow our blueprint to find and develop your own sound.

Music's Greatest Loss: Why Listen to Lili Boulanger

285K views · 4y ago · 17:33

Guest: Music's Greatest Loss

Build your dream composer portfolio → In the Composer Training Studio, you train like a working composer. Professional-style briefs mean you always know what to write next, and a repeatable, professional-level workflow means you finish what you start. You learn the techniques of great composers and then actually use them, and you follow our blueprint to find and develop your own sound.

Topics: The Child Prodigy · Early Works · The Prix de Rome · Aftermath · Later Works · Illness and Final Works

How Nadia Boulanger Raised a Generation of Composers

216K views · 4y ago · 23:49

Build your dream composer portfolio → In the Composer Training Studio, you train like a working composer. Professional-style briefs mean you always know what to write next, and a repeatable, professional-level workflow means you finish what you start. You learn the techniques of great composers and then actually use them, and you follow our blueprint to find and develop your own sound.

Topics: Her Life and Music · Her School and Teachings

Why Listen to Mahler?

757K views · 5y ago · 20:11

Build your dream composer portfolio → In the Composer Training Studio, you train like a working composer. Professional-style briefs mean you always know what to write next, and a repeatable, professional-level workflow means you finish what you start. You learn the techniques of great composers and then actually use them, and you follow our blueprint to find and develop your own sound.

Topics: Chapter One: Spring · Chapter Two: Summer · Chapter Three: Autumn · Chapter Four: Winter

▶️ Mentioned videos: Podcast on Mahler Symphony 2

How Much Music Theory Do We Really Need?

45K views · 5y ago · 15:30

Build your dream composer portfolio → In the Composer Training Studio, you train like a working composer. Professional-style briefs mean you always know what to write next, and a repeatable, professional-level workflow means you finish what you start. You learn the techniques of great composers and then actually use them, and you follow our blueprint to find and develop your own sound.

Topics: What Actually IS Music Theory? · Music Theory is Often Late to the Party · The Limitations of Music Theory · Sight Reading - Should You Learn It? · Relative Pitch - Should You Learn It? · The Western 'Rules' of Music - Should You Learn Them?

Create a BIG Symphonic Sound in 7 Minutes (Easy to Follow)

48K views · 5y ago · 9:15

Build your dream composer portfolio → In the Composer Training Studio, you train like a working composer. Professional-style briefs mean you always know what to write next, and a repeatable, professional-level workflow means you finish what you start. You learn the techniques of great composers and then actually use them, and you follow our blueprint to find and develop your own sound.

Topics: Orchestrating that Big Hollywood Sound (Step By Step)

These Fugues Are MASTERPIECES -- My Favourite Thrill Rides

153K views · 5y ago · 8:05

Build your dream composer portfolio → In the Composer Training Studio, you train like a working composer. Professional-style briefs mean you always know what to write next, and a repeatable, professional-level workflow means you finish what you start. You learn the techniques of great composers and then actually use them, and you follow our blueprint to find and develop your own sound.

Topics: Baroque Period · Classical Period · Romantic Period

▶️ Mentioned videos: What is a Fugue? A Complete Introduction

Stuck Writing 4 Chords? How To Write Better Harmony

93K views · 5y ago · 16:36

Build your dream composer portfolio → In the Composer Training Studio, you train like a working composer. Professional-style briefs mean you always know what to write next, and a repeatable, professional-level workflow means you finish what you start. You learn the techniques of great composers and then actually use them, and you follow our blueprint to find and develop your own sound.

Topics: Difficulty with Harmony · The Problem with 'Chords' · The Core Principle · Chopin's Harmony · Advanced Harmony and Wagner · The Core Principle Revisited

Everybody Hates Beethoven

61K views · 5y ago · 4:39

Build your dream composer portfolio → In the Composer Training Studio, you train like a working composer. Professional-style briefs mean you always know what to write next, and a repeatable, professional-level workflow means you finish what you start. You learn the techniques of great composers and then actually use them, and you follow our blueprint to find and develop your own sound.

What Makes Debussy Sound French?

195K views · 5y ago · 16:59

Build your dream composer portfolio → In the Composer Training Studio, you train like a working composer. Professional-style briefs mean you always know what to write next, and a repeatable, professional-level workflow means you finish what you start. You learn the techniques of great composers and then actually use them, and you follow our blueprint to find and develop your own sound.

Topics: The Way Things Were... · The Germanic Rulebook · Impressionist Painting · Franco-Prussian War · The Influence of Eric Satie · Debussy