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| Introductory material | |
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| Introduction to Music Composition | |
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| Tour of the Software for Music Creation | |
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| Lesson: Creating Software Instrument Track | |
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| Lesson: Tour of the Loops Library | |
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| Using Loops | |
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| Lesson: Creating Melodies with Loops | |
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| Lesson: Understanding Song (AB) Form | |
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| Lesson/Project: Creating a Piece Using the Software's Prerecorded Loops in AB Song Form | |
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| Recording Drum Tracks | |
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| Lesson: Understanding Rhythmic Notation with Rhythm States | |
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| Lesson: Reading Graphic Rhythms with Rhythm States | |
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| Lesson: Rhythm Dictations | |
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| Lesson: Drum Beats | |
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| Composing Drum and Percussion Beats | |
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| Lesson/Project: Composing Drum and Percussion Beats | |
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| Writing Melodies | |
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| Lesson: Understanding the Piano Keyboard | |
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| Lesson: Melodic Dictations | |
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| Lesson: Evaluating Melodies | |
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| Lesson: Composing a Melody in D Dorian | |
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| Melodic Variations Using Rhythmic Alterations | |
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| Lesson: Melodic Fragments, Rhythmic Augmentation, And Rhythmic Diminution | |
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| Creating More Variations | |
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| Lesson: Manually Changing the Pitch Level of Regions | |
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| Composing with Original Regions | |
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| Lesson/Project: D Melody Piece in Modified Sonata Allegro Form | |
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| The Sound FX Piece | |
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| Lesson: The Sound FX Piece: How Ideas Evolve Over Time | |
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| Lesson: The Sound FX Project: Creating Two Dimensional Sound Image and Creating Sonic Space | |
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| Lesson: Using Reverb to Create Three Dimensional Space | |
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| Basic Keyboard Theory | |
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| Lesson: Whole and Half steps | |
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| Lesson: Generic Intervals Lesson Plan | |
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| Lesson: Basic Keyboard Theory: Understanding Major Scales | |
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| MIDI Remix | |
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| Lesson Plan: Analyzing a Remix 1 | |
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| Lesson Plan: Analyzing a Remix 2 | |
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| Lesson Plan: MIDI Remix | |
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| More Rhythms | |
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| Lesson Plan: More Rhythms | |
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| Rhythmic Improvisation | |
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| Dictations | |
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| Lesson Plan: Melodic Dictations | |
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| Melody Writing Drills | |
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| Creating Melodic Motives Lesson Plan | |
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| Lesson Plan: Motive Variations | |
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| Lesson Plan: Motive in Sequence | |
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| Lesson Plan: Improvising Melodies | |
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| More Melody Writing Drills | |
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| Lesson Plan: Compose to a Given Rhythm (Rhythmic Continuity) | |
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| Melody Forms | |
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| Lesson Plan: Question and Answer | |
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| Lesson Plan: AB Tonic/Dominant | |
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| Lesson Plan: Rondo | |
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| The Ringtone Project | |
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| Lesson Plan: The Ringtone Project | |
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| More Basic Keyboard Theory | |
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| Lesson Plan: Major and Minor Thirds | |
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| Lesson Plan: Understanding Triad Qualities | |
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| Lesson Plan: Building Triads on Scale Degrees | |
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| Chord Progressions | |
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| Lesson Plan: Basic Chord Progressions | |
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| Lesson Plan: Twelve Bar Blues | |
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| Lesson Plan: Given Chord Progressions from the Simple Map | |
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| Lesson Plan: Common Chord Progressions Not on the Simple Map | |
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| Accompaniment Patterns | |
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| Lesson Plan: Accompaniment Patterns | |
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| Putting it Together | |
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| Lesson Plan: Composing Four-Measure Melodies | |
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| Lesson Plan: Drone | |
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| Lesson Plan: Generic Parallel Intervals | |
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| Lesson Plan: Counter Melody | |
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| Lesson Plan: Adding Chords | |
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| Lesson Plan: Understanding Bass Notes | |
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| Lesson Plan: Creating a Bass Line Part 1 | |
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| Lesson Plan: Creating Bass Line Part 2 Root and Fifth | |
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| Lesson Plan: Adding Drums and Syncing the Bass | |
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| Melody | |
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| Lesson Plan: Melodic Non-chord Tones | |
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| Composing Instrumental Music for Live Performance | |
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| Lesson Plan: Solo Flute or Violin Piece Project | |
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| The Art Project: Rondo Form | |
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| Lesson Plan: The Art Project: Rondo Form | |
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| Introducing Audio and Audio Editing | |
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| Lesson Plan: The Speech Project | |
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| EQ | |
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| More Advanced Audio | |
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| Lesson Plan: The Radio Commercial Project | |
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| Lesson Plan: The Podcast | |
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| Aural Reporting | |
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| Lesson Plan: Aural Reporting | |
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| Music for Video | |
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| Lesson Plan: Music for Video | |
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| Appendix | |
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| Reading Rhythms with Rhythm States | |
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| Piano Supplement Printed Material | |
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| Piano Supplement Video Lessons | |
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| Index | |