Private composition lessons, run like a university studio.

A monthly program for composers who want real supervision. You write, you send in the score, and you get a recorded review of it. Four of those a month, plus live group sessions and every course on the site while you're enrolled. Everything runs on notation.

  • $1,750/mo

Online Music Composition Lessons

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Our composition lessons, offered monthly, combine 4 private lessons with 4 group sessions to provide personalized guidance and peer feedback. Students work through courses in ear training, audiation, counterpoint, form, and business strategies, equipping them to refine their composition skills and market their music effectively.

Lessons bill monthly at $1,750 and continue until you cancel. There's no fixed term. Cancel any time before your next billing date from My Courses, or email me and I'll handle it the same business day.

What You Get

  • 4 Personalized Feedback Sessions per Month
    Submit your work anytime, no live meeting required. I’ll record a detailed video session reviewing your compositions, offering in-depth feedback, and guiding your next steps.

  • Prefer to meet live? That’s available too. You can schedule a one-on-one session if you want direct interaction or real-time discussion.

  • Flexible Email Correspondence
    Send questions whenever they arise and get timely, thoughtful responses. No need to wait for a scheduled call.

  • Full Access to All Courses & Resources
    Ear training, audiation, counterpoint, form, business strategy, and more, 24 products included at no extra cost.

  • Individualized Assignments & Feedback
    Every lesson and review is tailored to your music and your goals, delivered in the format that works best for you.

  • Performance Opportunities
    Participate in exclusive online concerts and showcase your work to the UreMusic community.

Is This Program Right for You?

Is This Program Right for You?

This program is for you if:

  • You’re serious about mastering composition and ready to invest significant time, discipline, and commitment.

  • You can read and notate music (or are committed to learning).

  • You’re willing to dedicate 15–21 focused hours per week to composing, revising, and refining your work.

  • You want a mentor with university-level experience and a proven track record.

Not for:

  • Hobbyists or those seeking casual instruction.

  • Musicians unwilling to work in traditional notation.

  • Producers/electronic musicians not interested in notation (even though I compose electronic music, notation is essential here).

Why Notation?

Notation is the foundation of compositional mastery. Every assignment, lesson, and feedback session is based on your notated music, so you can see, shape, and refine your ideas with clarity.

What’s Included:

Tuition & Application

The tuition reflects the depth of personal instruction, feedback, and resource access.


Spots are extremely limited to maintain quality and attention for each student.

How to Apply:

  1. Submit a brief application. Let me know you're serious.

  2. Schedule a no-pressure call to discuss your goals and readiness. The call is paid to ensure serious applicants only. After six monthly payments, I refund the fee.

  3. If we both feel it’s a fit, you can start immediately.

  • $1,750/mo

Online Music Composition Lessons

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  • Bundle
  • 24 Items

Tuition & Commitment


Spaces are extremely limited. Price reflects the depth of instruction, personal feedback, and access to a university-level music theory and composition mentor.

This program is intentionally priced to reflect the serious commitment required, both from you and from me. If you’re ready to invest in your growth as a composer, I invite you to apply.



Application Process

Before you can enroll, you’ll submit an application and schedule a no-pressure call to discuss your goals, your music, and your readiness for this level of training. If we both feel it’s a fit, you can get started right away. After six monthly payments, I refund the cost of your call.

FAQ section

Frequently asked questions

You've got questions. We've got answers.

Do you accept all styles and levels?

Yes, but all students must have a basic ability to notate their musical ideas. No instruction is provided for computer/electronic music unless a notated score accompanies the music.

Do you accept all students?

No, we must have a paid consultation to demonstrate your commitment, suitability, and seriousness about lessons. If accepted, you'll receive a coupon toward the total tuition. Otherwise, consider this a mandatory application fee.

What is the time commitment?

Expect to spend 15–21+ hours per week on lessons, assignments, and personal composition work.

Why is notation required?

Notation is essential for developing, revising, and communicating your musical ideas. It’s the foundation of compositional thinking and professional growth.

Is this program suitable for hobbyists or those just exploring composition?

Yes, the only thing that is required is dedication to the craft and the ability to work hard to achieve goals. You can be a hobbyist, but you must be serious.

What justifies the cost?

This is an elite, high-touch program offering direct access to a university-level instructor with 25+ years of teaching and composing experience.

You receive personalized private lessons, group masterclasses, individualized assignments, and comprehensive feedback, plus access to all relevant courses and exclusive performance opportunities.

The cost reflects the depth, exclusivity, and transformative potential of this mentorship. Spaces are strictly limited to ensure every student receives maximum attention and support.

Why is there an application (consultation) fee?

The application fee ensures that only genuinely committed students pursue this program.

The consultation is not a sales pitch. It’s a focused, professional session where we discuss your goals, review your musical background, and assess whether this intense, mentorship-driven program is the right fit for you.

Your time and mine are both valuable.

The fee demonstrates your seriousness and helps maintain the high standards and exclusivity of Online Music Composition Lessons.

If you are accepted, I refund the full amount after six monthly payments. If you are not accepted, it covers the time and expertise invested in your evaluation.

Included Products

These products are included at no extra cost while you are actively enrolled in lessons.

  • $59.99

01. Flawless Ear Training: Unit 1 (Audio)

  • Course
  • 49 Lessons
  • Includes 1 private space

Start with two notes. Forty-one sessions: 26 lessons, seven quizzes, a prep guide and a six-level final exam. The first of sixteen units, and the one everything else stands on. The first week is free.

Includes 1 private space

  • Corrections and Fixes

  • $59.99 or 5 monthly payments of $19.95

01. Flawless Ear Training: Unit 1 (Video)

  • Closed
  • Course
  • 45 Lessons
  • Includes 1 private space

Video version of Unit 1, the perfect fifth. Enrollment is closed. The audio course is the version that's kept current, and the first week of it is free.

Includes 1 private space

  • Corrections and Fixes

  • $39.99

02. Flawless Ear Training: Unit 2 (Audio)

  • Course
  • 20 Lessons
  • Includes 1 private space

Fifteen lessons, about fifteen minutes each. One note per lesson through the chromatic scale, then two, three and four at once. You sing fourths, fifths and whole steps as numbers: 0, 2, 5, 7. Final exam at 100 percent.

Includes 1 private space

  • Corrections and Fixes

  • $29.99

02. Flawless Ear Training: Unit 2 (Video)

  • Closed
  • Course
  • 17 Lessons
  • Includes 1 private space

Video version of Unit 2, the chromatic scale and number singing. Enrollment is closed. The audio course is the version that's kept current.

Includes 1 private space

  • Corrections and Fixes

  • $39.99

03. Flawless Ear Training: Unit 3 (Audio)

  • Course
  • 21 Lessons
  • Includes 1 private space

Fifteen lessons, twenty minutes each, one major key per lesson. Second inversion triads with the fourth in the bass, root or second, and the cadential six four. Final exam in two parts.

Includes 1 private space

  • Corrections and Fixes

  • $29.99

03. Flawless Ear Training: Unit 3 (Video)

  • Closed
  • Course
  • 17 Lessons
  • Includes 1 private space

Video version of Unit 3, second inversion triads. Enrollment is closed. The audio course is the version that's kept current.

Includes 1 private space

  • Corrections and Fixes

  • $39.99

04. Flawless Ear Training: Unit 4 (Audio)

  • Course
  • 21 Lessons
  • Includes 1 private space

Fifteen lessons, one major key each. The major third joins the fourth and fifth. Second inversion triads, major or augmented, the pedal six four, and a three-part final. One mistake per part to pass.

Includes 1 private space

  • Corrections and Fixes

  • $29.99

04. Flawless Ear Training: Unit 4 (Video)

  • Closed
  • Course
  • 19 Lessons
  • Includes 1 private space

Video version of Unit 4, the major third. Enrollment is closed. The audio course is the version that's kept current.

Includes 1 private space

  • Corrections and Fixes

  • $39.99

05. Flawless Ear Training: Unit 5 (Audio)

  • Course
  • 24 Lessons
  • Includes 1 private space

Fifteen lessons in major and minor, about thirty minutes each. Starts hard and gets easier. The minor third, the three chord, first inversion, augmented and diminished triads. Four-part final. Audio only from here on.

Includes 1 private space

  • Corrections and Fixes

  • $39.99

06. Flawless Ear Training: Unit 6 (Audio)

  • Course
  • 20 Lessons
  • Includes 1 private space

No new interval. Fifteen lessons that make thirds and perfect intervals permanent. Triad quality, every inversion heard as its own sound, quartal harmony, and a silent forty-question final at 100 percent.

Includes 1 private space

  • Corrections and Fixes

  • $29.99

Audiation Essentials

  • Course
  • 14 Lessons

What audiation is, why it matters, and how to start building it. A short course for anyone who wants to hear music in their mind. It's the groundwork before you take on Flawless Ear Training.

  • $1,750
  • $165/mo (Free 15-day trial)

Composing Hour: Inner Ear Training – Year 1 (Audiation)

  • Course
  • 185 Lessons
  • Includes 2 private spaces

A 52-week audio course that trains your internal sound memory and your concentration. Most lessons run 40 minutes, with ambient sound underneath to mask distraction and hold your attention. No screens and no written assignments. Best run alongside Flawless Ear Training.

Includes 2 private spaces

  • Composing Hour
  • Corrections and Fixes

  • $1,295 or 10 monthly payments of $150

Counterpoint for Composers

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  • Course
  • 59 Lessons
  • Includes 2 private spaces

Counterpoint is how two lines stay independent and still belong together. This course works through it from the composer's side: what to listen for, what the old rules are actually protecting, and how to write lines that hold up. It sits downstream of the ear work. Come here once you can hear more than one thing at a time.

Includes 2 private spaces

  • Corrections and Fixes
  • Counterpoint

  • $189 or 6 monthly payments of $37

Ear Training for Babies (18 Months to 5 Years)

  • Course
  • 94 Lessons

Ear Training for Babies introduces musical patterns early, using playful sounds, caregiver interaction, and tonal repetition to build pitch awareness and rhythm intuition. A few minutes a day at the keyboard together, week by week, built around one note at a time. For parents and educators who want a simple, structured way to make music part of the day.

  • $24.95

Elements of Music Composition, Composing Music Series. Vol. 1

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  • 1 file

Music is not found in voice-leading or theoretical constructs but in the age-old process of telling a story and developing your ideas cohesively and comprehensively. The Elements of Music Composition teaches you how to find the characters in your story so that you can take all of us on a musical journey. Includes 3rd and 4th Edition.

  • $3,250 or 12 monthly payments of $300
  • $200/mo

Form and Analysis: The Composer's Perspective

  • Course
  • 96 Lessons

An 18-month look at musical form. How the structure of a piece shapes its motives, its durations, and the choices a composer makes. It builds on the audiation work, so you learn to hear whole forms in your head, and you write pieces in each form as you go.

  • $29.99

Intervals for Sleep, Meditation, and Study

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  • 18 files

Rain with musical intervals underneath, built to run for hours while you work, study, or sleep. They reinforce intervals you're already training awake, they don't teach you new ones overnight. 46 files, four discs: sleep and work versions, each in a 1:58 and a full-length edition. Re-mastered in 2026, every file measured. Includes the 15-page owner's manual.

  • $24.95

Music Composition Technique Builder, Composing Music Series. Vol. 2

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  • 1 file

Exercises for the beginning, intermediate, and advanced composer Each chapter is designed to meet you at your current level and propel you to the next one. Designed for all composers, most exercises allow you to choose from three levels to match your level of experience. Begin to work on your technique today and hear your music with better clarity.

  • $29.95

Practice Dictations - One-Part

  • Course
  • 84 Lessons

Daily dictation practice for your ear. Each video plays a short, single-line melody. You take it down by ear, then the video reveals the answer so you can check your work. The sets start with quarter, half, and whole notes in C major and work through every major key, lined up with the units of Flawless Ear Training. One melody a day is plenty.

  • $49.95

Technique Builder Audio

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  • 4 files

Passive ear training helps you gain familiarity with fundamental intervals. CD1: Daily Routines – Use daily to refine your ear. CD2: Interval Meditations – Close your eyes and go deep into the sounds. CD3: Mirror Exercises: Sing or mentally play back the exercises in this collection. Best when used with the Daily Routines Book and Music Composition Technique Builder Workbook. (Included Free)

  • $1,195 or 12 monthly payments of $112

Technique Builder Masterclass (formerly Audiation Masterclass Series)

  • Closed
  • Course
  • 129 Lessons
  • Includes 2 private spaces

Audiation is hearing music in your head and understanding what you hear, even when nothing is playing. This course trains that skill directly. As it grows, reading, playing, and writing music all get easier, because the music is already clear in your mind before you touch the page.

Includes 2 private spaces

  • Corrections and Fixes
  • Technique Builder Masterclass Community

  • $19.95

Technique Builder Workbook, Music Composition Technique Series, Vol. 5

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  • 3 files

The complete workbook for the Technique Builder. This text complements the Music Composition Technique Builder textbook. This book may be used standalone to develop the ear but is intended for musicians who already know musical basics. Musicians can develop their technique and learn to sight-read and hear music internally.

  • $49.95

The Staff Speaks (Book 1)

  • Course
  • 115 Lessons
  • Includes 1 private space

The Staff Speaks is the starting point for those new to music. This course is designed for anyone who needs to build or rebuild their note-reading skills from the ground up. Think of it as a musical "remedial" that includes your first taste of audiation. Begin the process of learning to hear notes in your mind as you discover how to read notes in the treble, bass, alto, and tenor clefs.

Includes 1 private space

  • Corrections and Fixes