What You’ll Cover

Breezin’ Thru® Composing offers sequential learning and supports educational standards for Grades 5-12. The structured and immensely engaging lessons can also be enjoyed alone at home by students of any age.

A thrill in every chapter. With each of the 15 chapters building on each other, students learn in small fun nuggets and become wizzes in no time. It’s a breeze – and it’s a blast!

You will be amazed at the fabulous music that you and your students will create!

The Composers Journey

Breezin’ Thru Composing takes you
on an exciting compositional journey.

The focus is on melodic development. From there students incorporate other compositional elements. This way, students create their own music and develop their own melodies, rather than just playing with pre-scripted loops in GarageBand or harmonizing an existing melody.

The higher you go, the more
sophisticated it gets. The thrill of creating and hearing your own music is there from the start!

A Basic Motif & Melody

Easy Variation to Existing Melody (Simple Arrangements)

Creating New Melodies (Simple)

More Advanced Variations (Arrangement, Harmony)

Creating New Melodies (More Advanced)

Musical Applications (Movies, Songwriting)

Compositional Concepts

Students start with melodic development then incorporate other elements such as rhythm, harmony and arrangement, building important compositional knowledge as they go.

Each chapter also highlights a “theory link” that is applied to student compositions – making meaningful connections between theory and creating real music. This refresher gives students enough to get going. If you’re looking for theory mastery, we encourage students to complete the corresponding chapter in Breezin’ Thru Theory.



Composing Chapter Theory Link Composition Focus
Melody Rhythm Harmony Arrangement
Getting started with pitch The Staff Yes No No No
Getting started with Rhythm Rhythm Basics No Yes No No
Variation on a theme Rhythm Intermediate No Yes No Yes
Call & response The Piano Keyboard Yes No No No
Rhythm & words: spoken chorus Rhythm Intermediate Adv. Yes Yes No No
A round with Ostinato Bass The Major Scale Yes Yes Yes Yes
Jazz up your melody Major Key Signatures Yes Yes No Yes
Scale tones in a melody More Major Scales Yes No No No
A duet for two Intervals Yes No Yes No
My Minor Theme Minor Scales Yes No No No
A Musical Scene Minor Keys Yes Yes Yes Yes
My blues melody Blues Scales Yes No No No
Off to the Movies Rhythm Advanced No Yes No Yes
Jingles That Sell Rhyming Yes Yes Yes Yes
Be A Songwriter Triads in a Major Scale Yes Yes Yes Yes

Using Notation Software

Students also learn to use notation software in a progressive fashion, with each chapter building on the other in terms of new techniques being introduced.

We’ve included lots of videos that provide step-by-step instructions on how to complete compositions using notation software (such as Noteflight, Finale, Sibelius). With Breezin’ Thru Composing no one gets left behind.

1
Save Score Clef Selection Enter Notes Open a Score
2
Copying Rests Rhythms Editing
3
Deleting Measures Advanced Rhythms
4
Bass Clef Sharps/Flats
5
Percussion Line Lyrics
6
Multiple Parts to a Score Add Instruments
7
Changing Keys Drum Set Staff
8
Move Notes on staff
9
Adding Harmony
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And Lots More

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Using Sequencing Software

In the ‘Expand It’ sections of each chapter, students also learn to use sequencing software in a progressive fashion.

We’ve included lots of videos that provide step-by-step instructions on how to complete their compositions using sequencing software (such as GarageBand, Soundation), and make them sound really cool! Students learn in small nuggets and master things in no time.

1
Reverb Melody on Piano Percussion Part Add Beat Loop
2
Echo Looping Editing Create Drum Beat
3
Record an Instrument or Voice
4
Add Sounds Sampler
5
Panning Record 2 Voice Tracks
6
Blending tracks
7
Genre specific beats/loops
8
Editing Splicing Pasting in an Arrangement
9
Lead vs. Harmony Use FX Balance Parts
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And Lots More

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