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Music Arranger Course

What will I learn?

Spiff up your music arranging skills with our comprehensive Music Arranger Course, designed for aspiring and seasoned musos. Get stuck in to orchestration basics, voicing, and texture, while getting a grip on form and structure. Learn to write for brass, woodwinds, and rhythm sections, and check out creative arrangement strategies like harmonies and improvisation. Improve how you chat to musicians, get scores ready for a jol, and sharpen up your work through feedback and tweaking. Join now to turn your musical ideas into lekker arrangements.

Apoia's Differentials

Online and lifetime course
Certificate in line with educational standards
PDF summaries for printing
Online assistant always available
Select and arrange the chapters you wish to study
Set the course workload
Practical activities marked instantly
Study anytime, without needing internet access

Develop skills

Strengthen the development of the practical skills listed below

Master orchestration: Learn to arrange for different instruments properly.

Craft unique harmonies: Cook up innovative and jol musical arrangements.

Communicate with musicians: Get better at working together and explain musical ideas clearly.

Prepare professional scores: Make pukka, performance-ready musical scores.

Refine arrangements: Use feedback to perfect and finalise your musical creations.

Suggested summary

Workload: between 4 and 360 hours

Before starting, you can change the chapters and the workload.

  • Choose which chapter to start with
  • Add or remove chapters
  • Increase or decrease the course workload

Examples of chapters you can add

You will be able to generate more chapters like the examples below

This is a free course, focused on personal and professional development. It is not equivalent to a technical, undergraduate, or postgraduate course, but offers practical and relevant knowledge for your professional journey.