Compose Yourself!

Download or read book Compose Yourself! written by David Alzofon and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2011-01-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Improvising a melody, crafting a catchy tune -- doesn't that take a ton of talent?"Talent helps, but anyone can learn to speak the language of music." That's the message of Compose Yourself, a radically new course in musical creativity inspired by the author's lessons with Jef Raskin, the UC San Diego music professor and Silicon Valley guru who created the Macintosh computer, and renowned jazz guitarist/educator Howard Roberts, founder of Musicians Institute, Los Angeles.If you've ever studied music, you know how cramping theory can be. In contrast, Compose Yourself works like a foreign language course, using dialog games to stimulate your creativity right away and build your musical I.Q. (Imagination Quotient) steadily, day by day. Along the way you learn secrets of rhythm, harmony, and melody, such as the classical forms of time, the rolling wave pattern in pop songs, the emotional power of intervals, the applications of harmonic perspective, the meaning of melody, and the magic of "charm."