Explore guides, analyses, and tips that deepen your understanding of harmony, melody, rhythm, and more.

Music&Composition - Music theory

What is rhythm? A simple music definition

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Music&Composition - Music theory

Harnessing Creativity to Improve Your Music Composing

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Music&Composition - Music theory

Innovative Techniques for Composing Your Music

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Music&Composition - Music theory

What is negative harmony? A simple guide to creative composition

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Music&Composition - Music theory

The Role of Slurs in Music Notation

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Music&Composition - Music theory

Altered chords explained: what they are and how to use them

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Music&Composition - Music theory

Master the Circle of Fifths: Unlock Music Theory with Music Notation Software

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Music&Composition - Music theory

Music of hypnotic resonance: Dream, by J. Cage

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Music&Composition - Music theory

How to create powerful melodies

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Music&Composition - Music theory

Working with voices

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Music&Composition - Music theory

A December Classic: Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker

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Music&Composition - Music theory

Gazing at the moonlight with Beethoven

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Music & Composition

Spooky Music for Halloween, Featuring Film Score Legend Bernard Hermann

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Music & Composition

How to take a few notes and turn them into a complete song

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Music&Composition - Music theory

A Danse Macabre, with Camille Saint-Saens

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Music&Composition - Music theory

Fall arrives, with Imogen Holst

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Flat for Education

Create engaging music lessons with Music Snippet

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Music&Composition - Music theory

Regular and irregular time signatures: how to find the time signature of a song

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Music&Composition - Music theory

What is a time signature in music? How time signatures work

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Music&Composition - Music theory

The Kodály Method explained: singing, solfege, and folk songs in music education

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Music&Composition - Music theory

How to bring harmonic variety to your composition: 7 magic formulas

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Music&Composition - Music theory

How to choose instruments for your song: a composer's guide to instrumentation

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Music&Composition - Music theory

Flat, a must-have tool for a songwriter

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Music&Composition - Music theory

Learn to read and write music with Flat.io

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Music&Composition - Music theory

How to twist time with tuplets

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