Master songwriting and composition skills and showcase your musical skills to the world with this free online course. This free online course will introduce you to basic music theory before exploring musical terms such as ‘notes’, ‘octaves’, ‘keys’ and more in great detail. You will learn how to write and play chords in different keys, play major and minor scales, use scales to develop great melodies and compose songs without having to read any music. Start this course today and transmit your thoughts to the world through songwriting.
| College | Alison |
| Course ID | 201349 |
| Course Type | Online Learning |
| Course Qualification | CPD Certificate |
| Course Duration | 3-4 hours |
| Course Fee | Free |
| Entry Requirements | Like all courses on the Alison Free Learning platform this is a free, CPD-accredited course. A Graduate can choose to buy a certificate or diploma upon successful completion of a course, but this is not required or necessary. At Alison we believe that free education, more than anything, has the power to break through boundaries and transform lives. Alison is the world’s largest free online empowerment platform for education and skills training, offering over 5000 CPD accredited courses and a range of impactful career development tools. It is a for-profit social enterprise dedicated to making it possible for anyone, to study anything, anywhere, at any time, for free online, at any subject level. Through our mission, we are a catalyst for positive social change, creating opportunity, prosperity, and equality for everyone. |
| Career Path | What You Will Learn In This Free Course • Identify any interval on the piano/guitar up to one octave apart • Summarise the solfege system and how it relates to musical notes • Recall how to write and play the major and minor scale in any key • Explain the primary ways of building chords in music • Recognise the major chords, minor chords and their shapes • Describe the process of making chord progressions in songs • Discuss how to use melody to compose a song • Compare major chords with their respective relative minor counterparts • Relate the use of scales to develop and write great melodies |
| Course Code | 4302 |
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