Looking for a good music theory course.

[harvon]

For melody-writing, the study of voice leading, part-writing, thematic and motivic development and structure are vital

I agree. I can take a poem and compose+arrange it into a simple song. But the song becomes out as a rather dull piece because at the moment I don't have the skills/understanding you mentioned. The basic ideas could well be quite simple and not that many however.

[jancivil]

All the free guides from Audiofanzine are quite good:
Guides - Featured Articles - Audiofanzine

No, avoid this whole kind of thing, production-oriented sites or pages which touch on music theory tangentially from that perspective. Even if you think all you'll ever care about is edm.

This post is a great example of uselessness tbph. Nothing is said and it's a generic page with a million tabs, none of which apply to the query. Did you really just have to post?

Take a part-writing course in a brick-and-mortar classroom with a human being's guidance if you can.

Writing parts all day, to present to a critical person with the idea that all your parts *must* sound good, and whole - the goal is writing music in the voices, note well inner voices, nb: strong bass lines - and you may well realize you're writing melodically.

FIRST, get your ear together and pick tunes up off of recordings, get adept at this and you're doing something proactive for yourself.

[el-bo (formerly ebow)]

Check out Jason Allen on Udemy. A lot of theory and composition courses:

https://www.udemy.com/user/janthonyallen/

https://www.udemy.com/course/music-theory1/

[xbitz]

and https://www.udemy.com/course/piano-keyb ... mposition/

[jancivil]

I strongly recommend learning to read music. 'music theory' basing in a DAW is where we get the notion C D# G is a perfectly cromulent construction of teh C minor triad...

[Ariumath]

I used some courses in Udemy. I even learned it while taking a vacation in Paris and buying a house in France here Scoreclub is good as well.

[itsyaboylofti]

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Hey man depends how far you are into learning and what you're learning on.

I personally chose to learn on Piano (theory is basically the same across all instruments, but with guitar it becomes tricky when making chords etc bc of transposing).

There's some great free theory tutorials here: www.whippedcreamsounds.com (http://www.whippedcreamsounds.com)

If you're looking for a course I'd go for PianoForAll or improvPianoTips.

Hope this helps x

[jancivil]

guitar transposition is easier for most than on piano, movable shapes and all...

[donkey tugger]

guitar transposition is easier for most than on piano, movable shapes and all...

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..but don't tell anyone..

[Forgotten]

There's some great free theory tutorials here: www.whippedcreamsounds.com

Took a look, but I wouldn't recommend it. Seems to follow the fashionable "what's the quickest path to writing chord progressions" approach, but is far from a broad or methodical approach to theory.

[BLWBLW]

Rick Beato's YouTube channel 'Everything Music' has some good music theory videos.

[xbitz]

https://www.udemy.com/user/lean-musician/ are also good ones I've mentioned one of them already but there is a new one now

https://www.udemy.com/course/practicing ... the-piano/

[FirstGuy]

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I think, first of all, it is important to understand why you need a music theory. If you write songs, what else are you missing?
Pay attention to the following points:
- First, it’s important to know the basic notation, such as notes, their durations, rests, clefs, etc.
- Then scales, and principles of their construction.
- After that, chords and harmony.
- After all of this, you will be able to analyze the music of your favorite artists and learn the principles of building melody.
You can also find something on musical theory here https://resonare.club/education/music-theory/ (https://resonare.club/education/music-theory/).

[Forgotten]

^^^
The part above about first asking yourself what you need is definitely good advice.

[Tendou]

I did the Songwriting for producers course by EDMProd and it's not an isolated Music Theory course because it gets more into composung BUT through that course I acquired all I needed for my productions in music theory.