Whether you're a songwriter,
instrumentalist, singer, arranger, or composer, one of the
essential ways in which you can grow as a musician and enhance
the music you create is by gaining an understanding of musical
counterpoint.
"Counterpoint: A Step-By-Step eCourse" was written with today's
music-makers and today's musical styles in mind, and is unlike
any other music course available. In it, you'll learn how to use
counterpoint with instruments such as guitar, keyboards, bass,
brass, woodwinds, strings, tuned percussion instruments, and the
human voice. Throughout all five parts of the course, the
principles of counterpoint are distinguished from the style
associated with it. While styles come and go, principles remain
timeless, and if you know anything about counterpoint, you know
that its principles are among the most timeless and most
profound that musicians have ever devised, going right to the
heart of matters pertaining to the making of music.
The course is especially intended for songwriters, musicians,
singers, and others who are involved in playing modern-day
styles of music, such as pop, rock, r&b, jazz, country, folk,
etc. Anyone involved with songwriting, with composition, with
creating musical arrangements, with writing vocal harmonies, or
with doing any sort of combining and harmonizing of instruments
will find useful information in the course.
Counterpoint is ear-training, and one of the benefits of the
course is the effect it will have on a musician's ability to
recognize and use pitches and pitch combinations.
A musician needs the right tools to be successful. But more
important than the tools in hand are the tools in one's head.
And knowledge of counterpoint will provide a musician with a
tool that he or she may truly come to regard as among the most
valuable in his or her possession.
The course was written by John Collins, a musician, music
teacher, and guitar teacher from New York City. He attended the
New York School of Music, studied composition with
composer/arranger Frank Metis, and furthered his musical studies
with instruction from teachers Robert Gansert, Barbara Altman,
Robert Lawson, Jane Odin, and Arthur Samuel Joseph.
The complete, five-ebook course comprising "Counterpoint: A
Step-By-Step eCourse" is available for $9.95 from the Tanager Press website,
online at http://www.tanagerpress.com. |
|
