Applied Music Theory Guide
A practical guide to applied music theory that connects scales, modes, chord function, and voice leading to real-world analysis and arrangement.
13 SKILL.md files are tagged “Composition”. They sit mostly in Film & Television (6), Photography & Video (4), Music & Audio (2). Skills with this tag often also carry: Cinematography, Lighting, Color Palette, Concept Art. Most popular: Applied Music Theory Guide, Composition Techniques, Click-Worthy Composition. Every skill is a plain-Markdown SKILL.md you can copy or download for Claude Code, Codex and other AI agents.
A practical guide to applied music theory that connects scales, modes, chord function, and voice leading to real-world analysis and arrangement.
Learn and apply core photography composition techniques to guide the viewer’s eye, balance elements, and create depth.
Learn visual hierarchy and layout rules for thumbnails that maximize clicks, using rule-of-thirds placement and gaze-path design.
Learn to apply deliberate color theory in photography to plan palettes, create contrast, and set mood for shoots.
Learn to compose film scores in the Morricone style to define scenes with unconventional textures and central motifs.
Emulates Cartier-Bresson’s decisive-moment street photography with geometric composition; use it to capture spontaneous, well-structured urban frames.
Minimalist reductive concept art that uses negative space and a limited color palette to communicate mood and narrative.
Guides music composition from seed ideas to full arrangements, offering practical melody, harmony, and tension-management strategies for any genre.
Master portrait photography techniques to direct subjects, control lighting and depth of field, and capture authentic expressions in studio or location shoots.
Provides static-camera storyboard guidance for locked tripod shots, detailing framing, blocking, and composition to guide storytelling when the camera doesn't move.
This progress tracker helps you master cinematography by benchmarking against 100 notable DPs and guiding learning in lighting, composition, and style.
Learn to analyze and emulate Lukasz Zal's radical minimalist black-and-white cinematography, focusing on absence, composition, and the Academy ratio.
Replicate Mihai Mălaimare Jr.'s visual style for period pieces and moody dramas, using poised lighting, warm skin tones, and painterly composition.