🎼 HOW TO WRITE A MELODY 1: Period - An Easy Formula for Better Melodies and Themes with Balance kzread.info/dash/bejne/jGypu8azhcLAgps.html

@dmack2003

2 жыл бұрын

Would you mind sharing the compose what link?

@RyanLeach

2 жыл бұрын

@@dmack2003 www.brianavid.co.uk/ComposeWhat.html

@dmack2003

2 жыл бұрын

@@RyanLeach Thanks!

You should do a livestream where you compose a piece and explain each part of the process.

@lindichen50

2 жыл бұрын

Agree!

Thank you for your kindness, knowledge expertise and passion! You have a great channel.

@RyanLeach

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much!

A wonderful video as always Ryan! Thank you so much for keeping us motivated :)

love it... thanks for showing the whole process of creating the melody!

Great topic! Thanks. I’m glad that you’re discussing the topic of Melody recently (or at least I’ve recently encountered a several of your videos on that topic). A lot of people seem to, in my view, over-discuss Harmony. That’s especially true of a lot of Microtonality nerds like me.

Very interesting to see what you did with that theme. I was sitting here saying “No, don’t go in that direction!” the whole time. But that’s the beauty of music, we all hear different things 😀

It was very interesting to see how you composed 2 8 bar melodies using the period and sentence forms.

Very much enjoyed this, Ryan! I am the same when it comes to feeling that cadences are predictable in my music, and it's so great to hear it from you too! I would also love the link to 'compose what' if that is ok. Excellent work.

@RyanLeach

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! Compose What is here: www.brianavid.co.uk/ComposeWhat.html

Since I first heard your two bars, I couldn't not think about Chopin's Ballade no. 1. :)

Thank you so much, great video

Congrats on 1k subscribers!

@RyanLeach

2 жыл бұрын

thanks!

Thank you, Ryan!

@RyanLeach

2 жыл бұрын

No worries!

Very appreciate for your work !

@RyanLeach

2 жыл бұрын

Much appreciated!

Thanks for making this video :D

@RyanLeach

2 жыл бұрын

You’re welcome, I appreciate the comment!

I would like to know that how do you interpret the images of film with music,telling the stories through the music .For example,if I give you a random picture,how do you decide which key,melody you think is most fit for this picture? I think perhaps most people know how to write a motif and hormone ,developing them .Yet not everyone know how to combine their works with the images.

@RyanLeach

2 жыл бұрын

That's a great question that requires a longer answer than I can fit in a comment! The short answer is that you try to convert the image to a metaphor and then find musical ideas that match that metaphor. For a common example, if there is a flying scene that feels light and bouncy, the 3/4 meter can also feel light and bouncy. If a character is plotting a murder I might think "that's dark and unsettling, and the Phrygian mode is also dark and unsettling so I'll start there."

Sensacional!!!

Hi there! Thank you for sharing your massive knowledge with us peons :D BTW: is this Dorico you're using to notate?

@RyanLeach

2 жыл бұрын

Yes I switched from Sibelius to Dorico last summer and am really enjoying it

@Darqice

2 жыл бұрын

@@RyanLeach Yeah, I hear Sibelius dropped the ball and that Dorico was actually made by ex-developers of Sibelius. Anyway, great work. Keep it up, you truly deserve a lot more subscribers!

what if you varied the rythem or take the notes and either lenthen the theme or take out a note

Great work. What program do you use to write notation? Thanks.

@TheGabrielMagioni

2 жыл бұрын

That’s Dorico

how do you get the digital keyboard at the bottom showing the notes you are playing? ive been trying to find something like that for my students!

@RyanLeach

2 жыл бұрын

I need to remember to use it more often! It's called MIDIculous

26:00 to hear both completed version

composewhat seems like a cool thing. the links do not work. did itmove? is it gone? thanks

Please share what program you are using here as it seems rather intuitive and effective. Are on an Apple?

@RyanLeach

Жыл бұрын

Dorico, yes I'm on a Mac but it's cross platform

Do you know anything about improvising a fugue? Or just improvising in general? I would love to improve my improvisation skills.

@RyanLeach

2 жыл бұрын

I don't even have the piano chops to play a notated fugue, improvising one is beyond my talents! The boring but true answer for how to get better at improvisation in general is practice, practice, practice. It's one of those skills that gets better the more you do it.

@clarkharrell2227

2 жыл бұрын

As an exercise, you could start by giving yourself a whole note on your instrument, and as you hold it, hear in your head the next long note you want, and play that, and see if you matched the pitch in your head. Repeat the process, and you'll have a hard time just hearing whole notes in your head!

Should of used the police siren as a pick up that slid raising into the initial first note and set off a waltz.

Please, can you activate the auto-subtitles option?

@RyanLeach

Жыл бұрын

I'm sorry it's not working, it's not something I have to activate. They were never generated for this video for some reason and I can't seem to enable them.

What program did you use to write score?

@server_5172

2 жыл бұрын

Dorico 4 Pro

Ehat was the link for what to compose

@RyanLeach

2 жыл бұрын

ComposeWhat: www.brianavid.co.uk/ComposeWhat.html

What’s the link for ComposeWhat please?

@RyanLeach

2 жыл бұрын

www.brianavid.co.uk/ComposeWhat.html

What software are you using?

@RyanLeach

2 жыл бұрын

Dorico

Would you say that in songs verses are periods and choruses are sentences?

@RyanLeach

10 ай бұрын

I wouldn't say that, either form can be used in any situation. Also for some reasons instrumental music and songs seem to follow slightly different rules when it comes to form. Like a song is usually verse-chorus-verse-chorus where the chorus is the strongest part, but instrumental pieces are more often ABA where the A is the stronger part.

Where's the compose what link I can't find anything when I search for it

@RyanLeach

Жыл бұрын

www.brianavid.co.uk/ComposeWhat.html

@OW0974

Жыл бұрын

@@RyanLeach Geez thanks I didn't expect to get a reply

Great work, I am addicted now. Compose What does not open on my Mac, is it only that one page with 4 prompts or is there more to that app. Thanks!!!

You know the difference between a melody and a theme or ,'motif'?

@RyanLeach

2 жыл бұрын

Motif and motive are pretty interchangeable and refer to the smaller ideas and musical fragments. I think theme and melody will also be used synonymously by many people. In his book "Analyzing Classical Form" William Caplin says this about what specifically makes a theme: "Here it will refer to a complete formal unit, which includes its particular melodic-motivic content, its accompanimental texture, and its supporting harmonic progressions. A theme is normally brought to a close by a genuine cadence of some kind. Themes that begin a movement typically fill eight measures of music. But we will see that many themes, especially ones that occur later in the movement, are much longer."

I just want bar 8 to end on the tonic 😅

@RyanLeach

2 жыл бұрын

I went with the third because I wanted to keep the maj7, but if I had a G in the melody I'd end up with a nasty b9 interval. And I didn't want to make it just G or G6, so B in the melody it was!