What Students Are Saying About Soundfly’s Beginner Harmonic Theory Course

Why do some songs tug on our heartstrings while others fall flat? Conveying moods and emotions is a key element of making great music, and doing it well requires a deep understanding of chords and harmony. It’s what allows modern music producers and songwriters to convey a sense of danger, triumph, or melancholy.

Soundfly’s beginner harmony course, Unlocking the Emotional Power of Chords, will show you how to craft compelling chord progressions in your music. We’ll analyze the chords used in music from across the contemporary landscape, and equip you to use them in your own productions and compositions. You’ll be challenged to write your own mood-setting music by creating tracks for topliners, TV ads, film trailers, and more, and get personalized weekly feedback on your work from an expert mentor. By the end of this course, you’ll be able to harness more interesting chord progressions to provoke powerful emotional reactions in your listeners.

Soundfly courses are interactive, practice-based, motivational, and inspirational, and these are just some of the reasons why our students have continually come back to us with positive feedback, even more positive results, and often to take more courses in other fields.

If you’re looking to produce better music and make more fluent use of the emotional capabilities of chord progressions and harmonic theory, head over to Unlocking the Emotional Power of Chords to preview Soundfly’s online course for free, and read on below to see what recent students have said about the experience! 

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What Students Are Saying About the Course

“My experience with Soundfly was beyond expectations. When I enrolled the class I didn’t know how great the class would be designed and how personalized it would be! I really appreciated to have a mentor, I felt supported and pushed to reach my goals. Sırma is incredible! Every time I received an e-mail from her I was excited to read her feedback!”

Sophie Guay (Mentor: Sırma Munyar)

“Soundfly’s mentored courses have rekindled the fire and passion in my music and the mentorship program has brought my composing to new levels.”

Peter Pillitteri (Mentor: Martin Fowler)

“Mahea was exceptionally patient in helping me finish the course, given unexpected travel during the course time frame. The level of passion and professionalism is top notch, and Mahea was fun to work with.”

Ben Kennedy (Mentor: Mahea Lee)

“[This] might sound a bit subjective, but the most valuable thing I learned was how to be more sensible about the emotion that every type of chord can produce, and not only a single chord, but in the context of a chord progression by how each chord note moves to the next.”

Patricia Picchardini (Mentor: Martin Fowler)

“Thank you, I really loved this course and am so impressed with Soundfly! I want to keep taking courses with you indefinitely. I came to this course to learn about chords, and I learned about chords but also so much about music production — which I was not expecting! It was a nice surprise.”

Ayla Norris-Smith (Mentor: Joseph Capalbo)

“This interaction is amazing — so much better than Berklee Online. After I do this class we have to talk about which next one to take.”

Joe Petrucelli (Mentor: Martin Fowler)

“I am very, very happy I found out about Soundfly. Tim was great. Polite, professional, and easy to reach. I have been making beats since 1999 but learned a lot from your course and from Tim.”

Jimmy Cardell (Mentor: Tim Maryon)

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