Hotwired: Modern & Creative Music Composition

Course review:

The 2 day version of Hotwired Music Composition is Alchemea's premier music theory course. Incorporating all the topics and theory from the one day version this intensive and highly focused music composition course will give you the necessary techniques to accomplish your music composition objectives in a much shorter time frame than traditional musical study.

Regardless of musical style, to achieve a truly successful result, a composer or programmer needs to understand the important elements of the creative process regarding the fundamentals of music construction, direction, melodic/harmonic interaction, and where appropriate, instrument emulation.

Having a good basic understanding of dissimilar musical styles greatly enhances one’s creative potential as they are able to draw on much wider resources of information. This expanse of knowledge increases the possibilities of innovation in one’s chosen genre.

All course material is presented in an inspiring, original and a highly informative way to accelerate the learning curve. This is a course designed to get you creating as quickly as possible.

Audience

The courses are geared for the computer based musician. Having a Mac or PC at home will allow you to produce good music if you know how. Hotwired courses will give you the necessary techniques to accomplish your music composition objectives. Composers and keyboard players not using a computer as a sequencer/recording device can still benefit as the principles of much of the content can be applied to any situation.

Musical Level?

No prior musical knowledge is necessary due to the specialised teaching techniques and the outline of the course. The information and methodology is extensively backed up by the music pack* (optional extra).

This course will be most rewarding for those of the beginner/intermediate level, although advanced level students can definitely benefit from the course content as well. (see Course Outline)

You will be saturated with interesting information. If you really want to learn – you will learn a lot.