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Composing Pack

Beginner Composers Pack

A starter kit of composing tips, four golden rules, quick guides to rhythm, melody, harmony and form, three guided first pieces, and blank manuscript paper.

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What's inside

  • Composing tips: a three-stage path from a first tune to real technique
  • Before you write: four choices to make before a single note, plus early-habit dos and whys
  • Four golden rules for young composers
  • Quick guides to rhythm, melody, harmony and form
  • Composer's workshop: three guided first pieces, step by step
  • A piece-plan page, idea notebook, the Circle of Fifths, and blank manuscript paper
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Looking for step-by-step lessons instead? Head to Music Theory. Want composing ideas? Try Learn & Create.