A while back I decided to go into Oscar’s Composing Program, because there was a main idea that very much intrigued me: that you can practise and improve your composing workflows. The promise was that we won’t practise a specific skill, or a specific style; we will work on the way we compose music, basically! I had no idea how we would do it, but I was very intrigued, so I signed up.
After the first two weeks, I was completely blown away. I’d been arranging a lot of music, but I’ve always had a bit of a problem with getting my ideas out there in a very fun and rewarding way. A lot of times I would struggle and struggle, and eventually get this “theme” or finished track I’m happy with.
But knowing that this is something you can actually learn, practice, and work on, absolutely blew my mind.
During these 4 weeks, we learn a lot of different ways, and a lot different mindsets you can have when creating music. I took all of it to heart, and most of it worked really really well – some ideas I adjusted a tiny bit, but eventually I managed to find my own way of composing and getting my ideas out there without getting into that very frustrating mode of sitting in front of a piano having no idea where you should go next.
It’s absolutely amazing to know that, and I can’t believe I hadn’t thought about this before, because it’s such an important skill to think about. This is an excellent resource to start getting into the right mindset of creating music and finding your own workflow, and I think this is such an interesting topic on its own.
When I started this course, I decided to try something I had never done before, which was to try and finish an entire album within a month. It was a lot of long nights, and there were still some struggles in there, but thanks to what we learned in the course, I managed to do it, and I’m very happy with what I’ve managed to produced.
I really recommend this course if you want to know more about composing workflows, identifying your own way of getting your ideas out there, and creating without getting into too much struggle within the process. So I’m thankful to have taken this course.