The EmotionHacker (Harmony/Melody)

In this collection of our best harmony/melody classes, you will learn how to use any note, any chord, any time, to trigger the feeling of your choice.

In ten courses, you will learn how to make the most complex harmony sound simple, how to weave the perfect melody around your chords like a pro and how to hack your audience's emotions.

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The tools I learned helped me structure & arrange all of my music including my single „Soleil“ which has gained over 500K streams across all my platforms combined!

Erik Ryan

5M+ plays on Spotify

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With your guidance, my songs were selected to win a slot in Tayla Parx's songwriting/production camp in NYC. It changed my life and it's thanks to your education.

Asia Ward

10K+ monthly Spotify listeners

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HSA has been a game-changer for me. It's comprehensive, flexible, and incredibly enlightening. Would I recommend it? Absolutely. I'd buy it again in a heartbeat.

Michael Matics

1M+ listeners on Spotify

Unlock any chord, any note, any vibe...

What if you could make any chord progression sound simple? What if you could put the most insane jazz chord in any pop song? What if any note could sound awesome?
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• Build better chord progressions with the Architect System
• Draw listeners in with Gefährlich Harmony and Jigsawing
• Write KILLER melodies using our principles of Implied Harmony
• and so much more...

Achieve melodic freedom and hit the emotion of your choice with laser-like precision.

This course is perfect for songwriters and producers alike, so join today and Become An EmotionHacker!

ADVANCED level

(music theory required)

120+ LESSONs

40+ hours

9 courses

workbook

Includes nine massive courses:

Trigger Any Emotion! Translate any vibe into notes, from the simplest to the most complex feeling.

Make Them Squirm. Become a master at one of the most important principles in music: tension and release.

The Ultimate Chord Formula. Learn the ingenius formula that creates hard hitting chord progressions every time.

Make It Groove. One of the most undervalued aspects of harmony writing and so easy to forget: rhythm!

Unlock All The Chords. Move outside the key like a pro without sounding cheesy, jazzy or complex.

Add Your Twist! Here's how to make the oldest sound in the book, triads, sound fresh again.

Make Your Melodies Groove! Whether vocal or instrumental: flow better, hit harder, and groove like a MF!

Pick The Best Notes. Become a master topliner, pick better notes and phrase like a pro!

Arrange Your Backing Vocals. ...as well as choirs, string sections, woodwinds and brass.

+ BONUS: Ear Training Gym

This is what how the pros practice! As far as we're concerned, there's no better way to improve your harmony than by working on your ears. It may be challenging, but there's nothing quite as useful as improving your ear training skills.

• Learn the language of music through daily practice of intervals, chords, scales, timing and sightreading.  
• Make more musical choices by hearing what you see and seeing what you hear
• 30 Days
of daily 15-30 minute videos (10+ hours of content in total)

Trial Lesson on Avoid Notes

Meet Your Instructor

"I love making things, learning things and helping people. If I don’t make, I get restless. If I don’t learn, I feel empty. If I don’t help, I feel ungrateful. Good things have happened when I managed to balance all three." - Friedemann Findeisen

Friedemann is the bestselling author of the Addiction Formula and the creative brain behind the viral YouTube Sensation "Holistic Songwriting" with over 400K subscribers and millions of views. He is also the creator of the massively popular Songwriting Decks on Kickstarter, a successful board game designer, card magician, entrepreneur, songwriter/producer, sudoku solver and cat lover.

Holistically Integrated

At Holistic Songwriting, we don't just leave you with one isolated skill; we help you integrate this skill into the pig picture, so you understand how the different elements of your songwriting connect and form a symbiosis!

For Harmony and Melody, that means we're not looking at Melody and Harmony as separate things, we're looking at them in the only way that makes sense: as one.

For the whole holistic experience, consider getting ALL of our classes for one awesome price, in Holistic Songwriting Academy Complete:

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