Learn to Easily Perform Meditation Music + Play Along With Me (All Levels)

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Corso di 5 giorni

Learn to Easily Perform Meditation Music + Play Along With Me (All Levels)

Di Chris Collins

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Cosa imparerai

Anyone can make music! In this beginner-friendly course you will learn an easy method to perform peaceful meditation music on your own, using a pentatonic scale. Improvising your own music can be a profound experience in mindfulness and can be used as a form of meditation. It's also a lot of fun! The scale we will be using will simply be the black keys on a piano/keyboard. You may use your voice or another instrument as well, but the course will be based on the piano and explained using the piano as a reference point. You will learn about the pentatonic scale, and basic music theory, and be presented with a beginner's grab bag of tools and techniques to start improvising/playing meditation music today. Day four of this course will be a 35-minute piece of music that you can perform using what you have learned. This is designed to be an all-level course, so you can enjoy it at any level of ability.

Chris Collins

Massachusetts, USA

Chris Collins is an ambient and meditation music composer with over 10 years experience creating music. His work has been listened to by millions of meditators around the world and been featured in thousands of guided meditations, courses, and other projects. His compositions range from ambient music, binaural music, new age music, world music, and peaceful piano music.

Lezione 1

Introduction + Pentatonic Scale Explained

We will begin with an introduction to improvisation/performance and discuss what you need to get started. The pentatonic scale will be explained, along with some basic music theory and history behind this iconic and widely-used scale. You will learn how to play the scale and have the opportunity to practice along with me.

Lezione 2

Techniques & Tricks for Improvisation & Expression

In this lesson you will learn a variety of tips and techniques for performing/improvising meditation music using the pentatonic scale. You will also learn some music theory and be presented with examples of these techniques in action. I encourage you to practice on your own following the recording.

Lezione 3

Rhythm & Structure

In this lesson you will learn the basics of rhythm and we will discuss the structure of the piece I have prepared for you to play along with. We will go over the sections within the piece and I will provide examples of improvisation to give you some inspiration to get started.

Lezione 4

Let’s Play! Open Jam Session

It's time for you to freely play around with improvisation and exploring the pentatonic scale. Enjoy these 35 minutes of background music that you can create music to. Release yourself into the experience and try to fall into a creative, meditative state.

Lezione 5

Conclusion

We will end the course with a quick conclusion and reminder about what is important to keep in mind while improvising and making music. I encourage you to return to this course often to enjoy playing along with the music.

Recensioni recenti

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Katryna

October 10, 2023

Thanks for this! It was informative and inspiring.

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Belita

October 5, 2023

Thank you for sharing your wisdom and making this course easy to follow

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Beryl

August 6, 2023

This course is well organized for me as a beginner. I enjoyed it and will return to the sample backing track for more fun and practice. Thank you!

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Liz

July 23, 2023

This course taught me so much!!! I may have finished Lesson 5 but I am not done ... I never knew improvisation could be so much fun ... I've already started to listen to and do the lessons again!!!

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Joyce

July 11, 2023

I found this reaffirming for improvising- I’d be interested in understanding the LH drone- more than just an octave and a fifth background. Or can it move to other Gb keys? But I did love the course and appreciated the backing tracks!

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