Lessons with Music_Theory2009

Right. Let's start with some of your music. Either link me to a composition you've uploaded already, or post something new that you feel represents you as a composer.

If you could also tell me what kind of music you like to listen to, what influences you to write, what you specifically want to learn, that'd be really helpful.

~Christopher

I don't have anything that I've started composing. I don't realy know the foundations of composing.

I listen to various types of music. Classical, pop, jpop, korean, rock, mostly "band music" the kind you play when you're in middles school/ high school and soundtrack music (The stuff from Harry Potter, Pirates, Animated movies like Spirited Away , Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind)

I'd like to learn theory for one I really don't know too much about it.

Okay - so, how much theory do you know? Are you versed in basic voice-leading?

I don't think I know voice leading. =/

Uhm well I don't know too much I know about the staffs to a degree some stuff about the scales and what not...The things they teach you in middle school I guess.

Well, what you can write is, in a lot of ways, contingent upon what you know. So let's get some counterpoint going!

Choose three pitches, your choice, preferably not reachable by steps, nor comprising a major or minor chord.

Write a two-part counterpoint (two melodies that work together) using just those three pitches. The rhythms of each part should be different, as should the melodic lines.