The cast-iron harp and copper strings inside an open grand piano, lit from one side

Study

Learn the music. Then write your own.

Everything Greg teaches, in one place. The playable materials for his own music, and the courses he wrote for people who want to compose.

57 lessons

Composition, as a course of study

A written program that takes a player from scales to finished pieces. Part A is twenty lessons of foundations, anchored on Greg’s Weekly Piano videos. Hands and touch, theory, every mode, goal notes, motivic development, notation.

Part B runs thirty-seven lessons through Understanding Music from a Compositional Perspective, mapping each idea onto music people actually want to write now. Meshuggah, Radiohead, King Crimson, Tigran Hamasyan, Nancarrow. Anyone can follow it.

Open the coursePart A about 8 months · Part B about 12

16 songs

Practice the music

The Spirit Fingers setlist, plus an Extras & Covers section and the set orders for four gigs. Every song carries sheet music, reference recordings, and video.

  • Variable speed from a quarter to double, pitch preserved
  • A to B loop for drilling one passage
  • Sheet music and reference recordings on every song
  • Keeps your place when you close the tab
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Materials

Handbooks, course texts, and talks, written for students and for the schools that teach them. All free to download.

  1. AI for Musicians

    A self-paced course in AI literacy, creative tools, and web deployment for music students. One hour a day for eleven weeks, no prior experience.

    PDF

  2. Understanding Music from a Compositional Perspective

    The source course the composition curriculum is built on. Written by Greg from lessons and sources recommended by Guy Garnett, working through Rosen, Bach, Wolpe, Babbitt, Stravinsky, Lewin, Forte, and Schenker.

    PDF

  3. Somewhere Master Class

    A jazz improvisation workshop written up in full, using the tune Somewhere to strip playing back to time, ideas, and harmony in that order.

    PDF

  4. University Music Program Vision

    A proposal for a music program run as an incubator and accelerator, training artists who are also founders and inventors.

    PDF

  5. Music, AI, and the Future of Your Career

    The student talk from the Wichita State residency. Where recording revenue is going to zero, where it is going up, and what a vertically integrated artist actually does.

    PPTX

  6. The Future of Music

    The faculty version of the same argument, with the market figures and the four pillars a music school has to teach.

    PPTX

  7. Weekly Piano

    Greg’s piano lesson channel. Scales, voicings, ear training, goal notes, and practice method. Part A of the composition course is anchored on these.

    VIDEO

  8. Wichita State residency

    The residency hub, with the schedule, the sessions, and every handout in one place.

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