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What You’ll Cover
Breezin’ Thru® Composing offers sequential learning and supports educational standards for Grades 5-12. The structured and immensely engaging lessons can also be enjoyed alone at home by students of any age.
A thrill in every chapter. With each of the 15 chapters building on each other, students learn in small fun nuggets and become wizzes in no time. It’s a breeze – and it’s a blast!
You will be amazed at the fabulous music that you and your students will create!
The Composers Journey
Breezin’ Thru Composing takes you
on an exciting compositional journey.
The focus is on melodic development. From there students incorporate other compositional elements. This way, students create their own music and develop their own melodies, rather than just playing with pre-scripted loops in GarageBand or harmonizing an existing melody.
The higher you go, the more
sophisticated it gets. The thrill of creating and hearing your own music is there from the start!
A Basic Motif & Melody
Easy Variation to Existing Melody (Simple Arrangements)
Creating New Melodies (Simple)
More Advanced Variations (Arrangement, Harmony)
Creating New Melodies (More Advanced)
Musical Applications (Movies, Songwriting)
Compositional Concepts
Students start with melodic development then incorporate other elements such as rhythm, harmony and arrangement, building important compositional knowledge as they go.
Each chapter also highlights a “theory link” that is applied to student compositions – making meaningful connections between theory and creating real music. This refresher gives students enough to get going. If you’re looking for theory mastery, we encourage students to complete the corresponding chapter in Breezin’ Thru Theory.
| Composing Chapter | Theory Link | Composition Focus | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Melody | Rhythm | Harmony | Arrangement | ||
| Getting started with pitch | The Staff | Yes | No | No | No |
| Getting started with Rhythm | Rhythm Basics | No | Yes | No | No |
| Variation on a theme | Rhythm Intermediate | No | Yes | No | Yes |
| Call & response | The Piano Keyboard | Yes | No | No | No |
| Rhythm & words: spoken chorus | Rhythm Intermediate Adv. | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| A round with Ostinato Bass | The Major Scale | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Jazz up your melody | Major Key Signatures | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
| Scale tones in a melody | More Major Scales | Yes | No | No | No |
| A duet for two | Intervals | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| My Minor Theme | Minor Scales | Yes | No | No | No |
| A Musical Scene | Minor Keys | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| My blues melody | Blues Scales | Yes | No | No | No |
| Off to the Movies | Rhythm Advanced | No | Yes | No | Yes |
| Jingles That Sell | Rhyming | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Be A Songwriter | Triads in a Major Scale | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Using Notation Software
Students also learn to use notation software in a progressive fashion, with each chapter building on the other in terms of new techniques being introduced.
We’ve included lots of videos that provide step-by-step instructions on how to complete compositions using notation software (such as Noteflight, Finale, Sibelius). With Breezin’ Thru Composing no one gets left behind.
1
Save Score
Clef Selection
Enter Notes
Open a Score
2
Copying
Rests
Rhythms
Editing
3
Deleting Measures
Advanced Rhythms
4
Bass Clef
Sharps/Flats
5
Percussion Line
Lyrics
6
Multiple Parts to a Score
Add Instruments
7
Changing Keys
Drum Set Staff
8
Move Notes on staff
9
Adding Harmony
+
And Lots More
Using Sequencing Software
In the ‘Expand It’ sections of each chapter, students also learn to use sequencing software in a progressive fashion.
We’ve included lots of videos that provide step-by-step instructions on how to complete their compositions using sequencing software (such as GarageBand, Soundation), and make them sound really cool! Students learn in small nuggets and master things in no time.
1
Reverb
Melody on Piano
Percussion Part
Add Beat Loop
2
Echo
Looping
Editing
Create Drum Beat
3
Record an Instrument
or Voice
4
Add Sounds
Sampler
5
Panning
Record 2 Voice Tracks
6
Blending tracks
7
Genre specific beats/loops
8
Editing
Splicing
Pasting
in an Arrangement
9
Lead vs. Harmony
Use FX
Balance Parts
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And Lots More
