composing & arranging
If you have always wanted to have the skills to arrange and orchestrate for groups, bands and orchestras, it is now possible to study at home by enrolling in the MBE Composing & Arranging Class. Your homework is personally critiqued by a professional composer/arranger. It is an excellent program, teaching at a level not found at any university or college!
Your teacher will tell you the truth, solve your weaknesses and help you develop the ability within yourself to master your imagination. This course prepares you to compete as a free-lance arranger, orchestrator and composer.
Learn to orchestrate for all instruments (strings, brass, saxes, woodwinds, percussion, rhythm sections).
A wonderful by-product of this course is that your own performance capabilities will improve dramatically.
Review and standardization of music notation terms.
Review of Modern Harmony prerequisites3.
Study of Chord Families
Rhythmic notation, jazz phrasing and syncopation5.
Melodic phrasing
Chord Substitution and fixing lead sheets / sheet music Writing bass parts
Writing drum parts
Orchestration and transposition
Composition of motifs
Creating introductions and endings
Modern Harmony
Melodic development of motifs
The Composition & Arranging program usually requires the submission of a portfolio of compositions, including scores and recordings of live performances.
Your teacher will tell you the truth, solve your weaknesses and help you develop the ability within yourself to master your imagination. This course prepares you to compete as a free-lance arranger, orchestrator and composer.
Learn to orchestrate for all instruments (strings, brass, saxes, woodwinds, percussion, rhythm sections).
A wonderful by-product of this course is that your own performance capabilities will improve dramatically.
Review and standardization of music notation terms.
Review of Modern Harmony prerequisites3.
Study of Chord Families
Rhythmic notation, jazz phrasing and syncopation5.
Melodic phrasing
Chord Substitution and fixing lead sheets / sheet music Writing bass parts
Writing drum parts
Orchestration and transposition
Composition of motifs
Creating introductions and endings
Modern Harmony
Melodic development of motifs
The Composition & Arranging program usually requires the submission of a portfolio of compositions, including scores and recordings of live performances.
