Ash Rose posted:

Hey I just started getting into composing about a month ago and im feeling very energized but also very overwhelmed, what should my focus be as someone who knows sheet music pretty well (learned trombone in school in addition to taking choir classes) but was taught very little about theory beyond what was needed to play the music in front of me. I have made about a dozen songs in the vein of video game music, I have watched enough videos to have a solid grasp on modes, triads, dominant/major/minor 7ths, augmented chords, sus chords, the circle of 5ths, some basic cadences, etc.

I feel like where I struggle is adding to a song once I have a melody and chord progression locked in, like adding a counter-melody or just in general filling out a piece once I have my basic idea in place is a struggle.