- Understanding Dominant Seventh Chord Inversions
- Beat Writer’s Block By Testing Your Musical Idea
- Finding the Value of a Piece of Music
- The Two Critical Habits of Songwriting
- How to Become a Songwriter if You’re a Composer
- Why Art of Composing Exists: To Make Better Composers
- The Science of Becoming a Better Composer
- Build Your Craft: Learn the Melody and Chord Progression in Mozart’s Lacrimosa
- What Are Inversions
- Composing Without An Instrument
- Music and Time: Theme Types
- Music and Time: The Basic Idea
- Music and Time: What Are Formal Functions?
- How I Setup My Scoring Template
- More on Sketching
- Five Tips for Better Sketching
- Composing a Chord Progression
- Hearing Loss and Composers
- Five Minute Speed Composing Session
- Dealing with Writer’s Block
- Feeling Stuck Composing? You’re Probably Not Defining Creative Problems.
- Defining Creative Problems
- Do I need to play piano to compose?
- Should I go to college for music?
- Compose More Music Than You’re Used To
- How to Spot a Film
- William Caplin and Analyzing Classical Form
- Samuel Adler and The Study of Orchestration
- Everyone’s Doing It, No One Talks About It: Sketching Music
- Failing Before You Start: The Pre-Composition Stage
- Partimenti and the Secrets of the Greatest Composers – An Interview with Robert Gjerdingen
- The Universal Mind of Bill Evans: A Valuable Guide For Learning Musical Composition
- Understanding Harmony
- Learning to Code vs Learning Music Composition
- Intrinsic versus Extrinsic Motivation and Composing Music
- The Art of Counterpoint Part 3: On the Musical Education of a Child Prodigy
- Unbuttoned Trust: The Collaboration of John Williams and Steven Spielberg
- Counterpoint Part 2: The Art of Counterpoint
- Counterpoint Part 1: Why You Should Learn Counterpoint
- Getting to Know Mahler
- My Principles of Orchestration
- Dealing With Failure
- Understanding Musical Form
- The Art of Modulation, Part 2: Common Chord Modulation
- The Art of Modulation, Part 1: Direct Modulation
- Creativity and Music Composition
- The Pathway to Mastery, Part 3 – Beyond the Apprencticeship
- The Pathway to Mastery, Part 2 – The Ideal Composer Apprenticeship
- The Pathway to Mastery, Part 1
- So You Want to Become a Composer?
- Melody Writing – Part 4: 10 Great Melodies
- The Process of Composing Music
- What is Music Composition?
- Melody Writing – Part 3: Generating Melodic Ideas
- Melody Writing – Part 2: The Tools of Melody
- Melody Writing – Part 1: Creativity and The Importance of Melody
- Composing Challenge #1 – Voting Begins!
- Composing Challenge #1
- Courageous Decisions
- Good Composers Borrow, Great Composers Steal
- Questions Every Composer Needs to Ask
- Some Beautiful Ralph Vaughan Williams
- The Meaning of Your Music
- Novel Writers on the Composing Process
- You Are a Terrible Composer
- Piano Sonata No. 1, Mvmt ii
- 30 Minute Composition #8: Prelude in C# Minor
- Merry Christmas!
- Beethoven Following My Lead
- 30 Minute Composition #7: Prelude in E Major
- Your Composing Does Not Equal Your Worth
- Comment from an Art of Composing Reader
- 30 Minute Composition #5: Prelude in Eb Major
- Key Signatures Make the Music
- Burnout, Forging Ahead and Jazz Composition
- Cool Videos About Improvising a Canon
- Voice Leading and Counterpoint
- Re-engaging Counterpoint – Once and For All
- Gradus ad Parnassum Quote
- Humility
- Identifying Creative Blockages
- The Importance of Having a Composing Sanctuary
- New Page: Free Classical Music
- Making Your Music Playable
- I Will Find Something Good in Every Composition I Listen To (Don’t Be a Music Snob)
- I Will Not Bask in the Glory of My Finished Composition
- I Will Finish Every Composition I Start
- A Composer’s Manifesto
- April 2012 Compositions
- The 5 Steps to Creating the Composing Habit
- Becoming a Professional Composer
- Resistance is Stopping You From Achieving Your Goals
- March 2012 Compositions
- Learning Counterpoint On Your Own
- Music Composition Pedagogy
- Simple Functional Harmony
- String Quartet Moment 1 – Daugmented
- Other Peoples Recipes and How to Compose Music
- String Quartet Moment #2
- Can You Learn How To Compose Music?