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Foundations: write and finish a song · Lesson 1 of 7
The theory you actually need to finish a song
20 minFoundationalFree
Most theory tuition is built for exams, so it front-loads notation and interval drilling — and most artists quit before it becomes useful. This lesson is the opposite: the smallest set of ideas that lets you finish a song this week. If you want to go deeper afterwards, musictheory.net does drills better than any video we could make, and we'd rather point you there than pretend otherwise.
What you’ll be able to do
- Pick a key and know which chords belong in it
- Build a progression on purpose instead of by trial and error
- Name what you wrote well enough to register and split it
- Know which theory to skip until you actually need it
Inside this lesson
- 1Watch first: theory, from someone who teaches it for a living
- 2A key is just a shortlist
- 3Chords have jobs
- 4What you just created, in rights terms
- 5Skip these until you need them
In the app
Take this lesson in the LUCY app
Open it in LUCY and the lesson rewrites itself around the music you make, reads itself aloud while you work, and answers questions about your own releases. Free with your account.
- Rewritten around your genre and where you're at
- A coach that can see the releases in your account
- Narrated — put it on while you work
- A badge for the track when you finish it
Start this lessonFree with your LUCY account · opens the app if you have it
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