SCORECLUB
COURSE CATALOG
Presented in Course Order
This course is ear training specifically for composers with proven
methods and my own approach.
The course can be tailored to your ability level. If you have never taken
ear‐training before then take the course accordingly, do not
overwhelm yourself, and then return to it.
Once you have taken it once at your level, you are ready to move on to
CONTENT ECT:F and make sure you apply it there.
Diatonic ear training.
Major and Minor scales Apply it to all subsequent courses, compose by ear applying the
methods in this course and you will be surprised!
This is a complete foundation of musical theory, technique and
process.
If you’ve covered this material before, I would still suggest you have a
go through this as it covers it from a unique angle and adds many
synergistic elements to make the knowledge of four‐part writing
immediately applicable to all your music, all the way to full orchestra.
CONTENT
Diatonic harmony, voice‐leading, Use your ear‐training here too, compose by ear as you learn the theory
harmonizing, arranging techniques and techniques and develop your methodology.
and more.
This is another core skill for composers, to do right after or during
ECT:F.
Also includes some very important lessons about methodology and
thought process when writing counterpoint, which is often a sticking
point for students. So even if you’ve done counterpoint before you will
get a lot out of this course.
CONTENT
Species counterpoint. Diatonic.
If writing memorable tunes was easy then everyone could do it. There
is indeed a process to it, a secret if you will, and this course uncovers it.
This course breaks down in clear, usable steps what the masters knew
about melody writing, the psychology of listening and how motives
work in order to write memorable tunes with control and predictability.
This is the result of a serious study from me and it leaves no stones
unturned.
CONTENT
Techniques for writing memorable A great course to combine with counterpoint and later the OTL
melodies and writing well‐ courses, and don’t forget to use your ear!
constructed lines.
Instead of doing more technique of counterpoint, this course is meant
to reinforce what you learned in Practical Counterpoint 1 and use it
write some music!
This is an in‐depth look at texture, direction and form in two‐voice
writing designed for the intermediate composer. An important course.
CONTENT You’ll come away from this with a deep understand of what
Writing short pieces in two voices. craftsmanship means and how the masters did it.
Modes are one of the most important tools for the film composer, and
Modal Mastery covers it in thorough detail not only technically but in
musical application, viewing each mode as sound and colour. You will
end this course able to write modes with four different approaches,
modulate between them and, more importantly, use them like an artist
uses paint.
CONTENT
The modes of major
This course is designed to come after an orchestration course and gives
you the tools to harness that in order to write the type of organic and
natural orchestrations of the masters.
This is a ground‐breaking course that results in real changes to your
writing fast and an understanding you can’t get anywhere else.
CONTENT
This course deals with the foreground layers of the orchestral
The orchestration techniques of the
arrangement and requires a good grasp of ECT:F and some
masters.
counterpoint.
The rest of the layers are covered here, building on the techniques
seen in OTL 1 and exploring the orchestral accompaniment.
The building blocks of the accompaniment writing for orchestra are
thoroughly explore, presented one by one and then added together
cumulatively so you have clarity and control.
CONTENT This with OTL 1 completes the standard approach to orchestral writing
Accompaniment techniques for and. Requires a good grasp of counterpoint.
orchestra
The final chapter of the OTL series, this course as an in‐depth course on
how to think and write for orchestra as colour and movement as seen
in great composers like Respighi and Debussy. By the end of this course
you will have mastered all the tools to fully understand this approach
to writing and you will have learned to apply them in context as well,
on their own and in combination with the techniques learned in the
CONTENT first two OTL courses.
Textural writing for orchestra