Compose Yourself Music Composition System

Compose Yourself received high marks at both Penn State and Duquesne Universities. Students were impressed with how easy the system is to learn. Many of them are incorporating Compose Yourself into their curricula.

Compose Yourself developers are available for workshop programs in your school. Email us at compose@ataccorp.com for more details.

Compose Yourself - An Overview:
The appeal of this system is that there is no prerequisite for music reading skills, only the natural desire to create. Compose Yourself students work in pairs at keyboards. There are a series of teacher demonstrations, each with a corresponding student activity. These involve various compositional techniques and the use of keyboard cards. Students can choose from major, minor and blues categories. After these activities are completed, students are free to create their own compositions. Compose Yourself targets middle and high school students. It adjusts to fit into music appreciation curricula, or as a stand alone program.

Often the most interesting compositions are from students with limited musical backgrounds. What a shame it would be to keep these children from the joy of musical composition. Compose Yourself does not require formal musical skills. Although the use of traditional notation is encouraged by providing a musical staff for each measure, it is not necessary. Students are free to create musical compositions without concern for traditional notation inhibiting their musical thoughts. Students freely mix traditional notation, numbers and note names to notate their melodies. Space is provided for all types of notation.

Compose Yourself is designed to be used with keyboards that are "theoretically correct" in their auto-chord function. In other words, when you play a C in the auto-chord section - you get a C major chord. When you play a C and Eb together, you get a C minor chord. For major-minor seventh chords, you play the root and the seventh (C plus Bb). The only keyboards that we have found to do this are the portable Kawai, Korg, and Roland keyboards. Compose Yourself will not work with brands that do not have a theoretically-based auto-chord function.

What do you get for $49.95?

• Hardback looseleaf notebook containing all masters, worksheets, etc. - each in a plastic protective sleeve
• A Learning Sequence Outline
  • Clear, easy to follow 6 page graphical diagram of specific teaching steps
  • Class Rondo Outline
  • Theme and Variation Teaching Outline
• Workstation Layout Diagram
• Twenty-three Teaching Masters
  1. Scale and Chord Building-Major
  2. Class Rondo-Major Section
  3. Class Rondo-Minor Section
  4. Class Rondo-Blues Section
  5. Class Rondo-Rhythm Section
  6. Theme and Variation
  7. Major Montuno Theme Sheet-no staves
  8. Minor Montuno Theme Sheet-no staves
  9. Rhythm Section
  10. Major Montuno Theme Sheet
  11. Minor Montuno Theme Sheet
  12. Major Theme Sheet
  13. Minor Theme Sheet
  14. 12-Bar Blues Theme Sheet
  15. Keyboard Cards (Major)
  16. Keyboard Cards (Minor)
  17. Keyboard Cards (Blues)
  18. Process Card (front)
  19. Process Card (back)
  20. Composition Worksheet (front)
  21. Composition Worksheet (back)
  22. Transposition Wheel (inside circle)
  23. Transposition Wheel (outside circle)

Compose Yourself changes the way you teach music!
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