Learning paths
Paths organize shared courses around a goal. Your lesson completions follow you everywhere, so changing direction never means starting over.
Path 01 · Beginner friendly
Read, hear, and construct your first musical ideas.
A guided route from clefs and pulse through scales, chords, and your first original theme.
0/6 courses complete · Includes projects
Path 02 · Beginner to developing
Turn musical ideas into expressive original compositions.
Connect theory and listening to motif development, expressive harmony, and intentional arrangement.
0/10 courses complete · Includes projects
Path 03 · Foundation specialization
Use music to support characters, places, and emotional stories.
Build foundations while focusing every concept on leitmotif, emotional expectation, and scoring for interactive scenes.
0/12 courses complete · Includes projects
Path 04 · Beginner friendly
Compose, arrange, mix, and export original music with free software.
Connect musical foundations to a complete LMMS workflow—from the first drum step to an exported WAV.
0/7 courses complete · Includes projects
Course catalog
Music foundations · Beginner
Turn staff symbols into notes you can recognize and use.
Music foundations · Beginner
Understand duration, feel a pulse, and stay with the beat.
Music theory · Beginner
Build major and minor scales and understand their key relationships.
Ear training · Developing
Connect measured pitch distance to sounds you can recognize.
Harmony · Developing
Construct chords, hear their colors, and direct harmonic expectation.
Composition · Developing
Develop motifs, shape phrases, and arrange music with dramatic purpose.
Listening literacy · Developing
Move from audible evidence to informed interpretation and creative application.
Instrumentation · Developing
Understand sound production, timbre, vocal texture, and expressive associations.
Music production · Developing
Shape intimacy, distance, decay, and environmental atmosphere.
Music theory · Developing
Build and compare modal pitch collections without emotional or historical shortcuts.
Rhythm in composition · Developing
Use pulse, ostinato, subdivision, and phrase timing to shape movement.
Music for visual media · Developing
Transform recurring themes to reveal character, memory, and emotional change.
Music production · Beginner
Create, sequence, arrange, mix, automate, and export an original track in LMMS.
Courses reference the same lesson IDs as your progress record. Review completed lessons freely, skip ahead, or switch paths without losing your place.