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Always wanted to know how composers write their songs?
Ever wondered how to turn that melody or tune you’ve hummed in showers into a complete piece of music? If these questions seem familiar or if you're a budding musician wanting to know more about songwriting techniques, this is the program for you.
In this course, students will go through rhythmic studies, learn melodic composition, harmonisation and music arrangement. At the end of this program, students will have an understanding of different popular music styles and also have the skills to write and complete a song.
What's more, you'll get to venture into performing your song in public as well as exploring recording and production techniques!
Outline
While this isn't an in-depth music theory study, some basic knowledge of music theory like chord progressions, major and minor keys will enhance your songwriting capabilities. This segment is kept short, fun and practical! Grasping the concepts are easy with our innovative instructors' method!
Without rhythm, a piece of music has no proper foundation. Understand different beats and discover the best tempo for your song. Be surprised at how a minor adjustment in song speed can affect delivery impact. Manipulate rhythm to make your song interesting.
Understand song intros, verses and choruses. Learn to create song hooks, build tension and achieve music resolution. Find answers to whether a guitar solo, bridge or key change is necessary. Learn basic to complex music arrangements.
Simply put, "song dynamics" refers to volume. Get knowledge on how the dynamics of a song can lure listeners, get them hooked and create a climax. Avoid writing a flat-sounding song by manipulating instrument volume, and through this, set the mood for various parts of a song.
Your time to shine comes when you perform your very own original composition live - with an audience. The Music Lab has various connections to performance venues and we frequently hold student concerts. Get a taste of playing on stage - at venues where true professional musicians work!
Take the step to make music professionally by joining our popular Music Production course. Start recording professional-sounding music, understand the process of recording various instruments and systematically getting the final mix to a complete song.
The Music Lab is a premium music school in Singapore housing some of Singapore's top local professional musicians. We are one of the most complete music schools in Singapore offering training in a very wide range of instruments. What makes us really unique is we "complete" our students' music training by offering real-life stage performance opportunities where our local professional musicians work!
Our training does not stop with the typical individualistic style of instrumental classes that you will find in most music schools in Singapore. At The Music Lab, we believe that training should not just stop at CD play-alongs! Therefore, band performance classes are incorporated into our students' training regime and that is what makes us so successful as a premium music school in Singapore.
If you find yourself still crawling through your search engines for the "Best Drum School Singapore", "Best Guitar School Singapore" or "Best Vocal School Singapore" etc... STOP LOOKING ANY FURTHER! Your search ends here at The Music Lab!
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