Two Steps to Make Melodies Stand Out in Any Arrangement

A common and most dangerous mistake to make in your composition is adding too many elements to your music. Here's why...

In this tutorial, I give you 4 Tips on writing Happy Adventure Orchestral Music by ear in the style of How To Train Your Dragon / Sonic The Hedgehog & more

Using inspiration from other genres are a great way to add interest and uniqueness to your music. This is just something I’ve picked up along the way listening to a lot of neo-soul jazz&hip hop, and I think you’ll have a lot of fun trying it out.

So here’s a pretty long (but hopefully rewarding) tutorial on writing different chord progressions for your melody, or theme. Here, I’ve composed a basic melody and went through an entire sketching process of writing progressions from: 1 chord, 2 chords, 3, 4, 8, a 16+ chord progression; downward and upward motion; and finally, extended chords.

This video is part of the Cinematic Synthesis: Digital Sound Creation course.