Good post. The brain does need some exercise as well....jancivil wrote:Thank you.tapper mike wrote:If you want to embrace the concept of writing music. Your first goal should be practice. Many think they don't have to work out scales patterns and progressions and somehow theory is going to come to the rescue. Theory is not a subsitute for technique. The stronger your abilities, the greater your confidence the more easily you'll be able to recognize shapes and patterns.
The more easily you recognize shapes and patterns in songs. The more you will be able to recreate them in a given genre.
Once you have a handle on the fundamentals of performing rhythmic patterns, and variations then you can move on to working out melodic lines. All the greats have two things in common. Impeccable metre. Key/chord conciousness.
Afterwards one studies style. If you want to learn study from those artists whom you wish to emulate. The best melodist software uses key principles of techniques by artists. Check out Band-In-A-Box it has a melodist function which creates melodies in styles of artists. It wont show you what they did on a particular performance it will show you how they might interpert a piece.
Learning a few licks along the way isn't a bad idea either.
Melody generator
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- KVRAF
- 16977 posts since 23 Jun, 2010 from north of London ON
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If a billion people believe a stupid thing it is still a stupid thing
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- KVRist
- 65 posts since 24 Sep, 2008
This is an awesome comment, one that I will apply and always remember. BlessPugFace wrote:In my experience the best way to compose is... clear your head....dont but dont listen to any music what so ever for at least 12 hours and definitely not the radio. decide on a key. then put down the bass part of that progression. then immediately record what your fingers play. dont stop at recording until you are playing too many notes from your fingers. record both the initial phrase and then the next phrase of the melody in the same take then take the recorded part and listen and chop it up. add counter melodies where suited.
its not the notes its the spaces between the notes that count. random generators can work but play from the gut is much better. random generators dont take in to account that we need to be taken by the composer in the mood of the melody. its the difference between a poem and an instruction.
the best random generator is your fingers.