How to make Memorable Melodies (Udemy.com)

The fifth category, in addition to Rhythm, Harmony, Melody and Ambience is Space. Space allows time for the audience to feel emotion, share expression between different voices, that is, melody is actually shared, and provide a means to have a call and answer between two voices, or in other words a conversation.

It was extremely helpful to think of rhythm as the pulse, harmony as the depth, melody as the focus, and ambience as the mood. This course gives to you so many options for your own creativity, like using full chords with bass. So much important information and tips for creating depth. Thanks so much, Mike!

The course is filled with valuable tips and guidelines for working with the melodic component of our compositions. I appreciate the use of examples which are helpful, but could be a bit more thorough. I don't feel I am walking away with the knowledge on how to create melodies. Rather, I've learned a great deal about how to enhance and embellish melodies with other components of the composition.

This course is absolutely pure gold. Mike not only dissects meticulously what a melody is into its tiniest details, but also provides some invaluable advices on how to compose and arrange the main theme in your compositions. In brief, if you really want to significantly improve the quality of your melodies, I seriously doubt you will find a better course than this.

I've done nearly all of Mr. Baggstrom's courses, because he's a fantastic tutor; and in each lesson you'll learn something new - even if you thought you already knew it. However, the only thing that I miss from his courses is comprehensive summaries of lessons that I can actually print out for reference. It's not easy to progress if you constantly have to page through lessons in search of something, or constantly stop and rewind to write everything down. Nevertheless, all my thumbs up to Mikael for fantastic, useable material.

No fluff, straight to the point every time. Consistent quality. Great audio; pronunciation is crystal clear, and the audio is professionally edited. Perfect balance between being accessible for relative beginners and offering insight for more experienced composers. I use a completely different DAW to make completely different music from what the instructor uses and makes, respectively; but none of the content is dependent on any particular tool. The concepts are explained in a clear and "modular" way, building up in layers. It's easy to understand how to apply these principles, patterns, and techniques to any sort of composition, not just a particular style or use case. While the instructor clearly has a background focused on soundtracks, they explain every concept with such a well-structured mental model that I can instantly see how these same concepts apply to psytrance. Overall, this series is well above par for a Udemy course. The first section condenses practically a whole semester of real-life school into a highly-optimized package with zero filler. The audio quality is possibly the best I've heard out of a double-digit number of other Udemy courses. I'm going to buy more of the instructor's courses, even though some of them sound like they have overlap, just because of the high value I've gotten out of just a fraction of this course.

I feel that the title of the course is a bit misleading. I was expecting a course on traditional melody writing techniques. The course was more about creating character, and mood with your melodies, and using your D.A.W. to get inspiration and orchestrate your melodies. There were some good ideas, but a lot of common sense and obvious suggestions. I have taken several of Mike's courses and I repect what he is doing, but this was not one of my favorites.

Mike consistently shows that he usually spend a lot of time to design his course contents. This one is also another well-established work which will definitely be useful whatever your level is as a musician. The examples and live materials are carefully selected, all the story is very well told. Strongly recommended as usual.

Helemaal niet slecht. Het fenomeen `melody` wordt enigszins spiritueel uitgelegd, met een bepaalde visie v d docent, heel apart! De docent is hier op zijn plaats. Zijn speciale manier v uitleggen is bijzonder, tikje entertainment. Door zijn aparte woordaccenten weet hij de aandacht te houden.

Yes, Mike is very thorough but also rhythmic and metered at a pace that is easy to keep up with while not being boring. Also, as any good instructor, Mike is great at sharing the mindest, the spiritual perhaps even, without even mentioning it. That is harder to pull off without offending yet Mike is a master on many levels. Recommend all of his courses, they all together have made a profound impact on my musicianship, but also along with a few other instructors, the attitude of success, which after all, is what we deep down are paying for, no?