Sequencing and understanding how to build a great melody is something I'm always working on. Not having musicians around me, or other producers to help me wrap my head around it I've found I hit a small wall when it comes to this topic. I've read a lot of theory books and I play several instruments but when it comes to sequencing inside my DAW I am often stuck.
I've been listening to a wide variety of tracks, and I've found a couple similarities between them.
*The melody is often dueling... in 2 or 4 bar patterns... the first 2 bars do something... and the latter 2 bars respond...
*The movement is often up or down over those 4 bars... repeating every 4 bars...
Can anyone shed some light into the mentality behind these songs? For example:
Crookers - Knobbers
Download .mp3 http://www.mediafire.com/?djznkzximwp
On YouTube
What key is it written in? Intervals used to create the movement etc.
Different genres use different methods but I am looking for a way to practice writing and sequencing. Just seeing a sequence might help...
thanks KVR peeps.
Sequencing & Understanding Melody
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- KVRist
- 149 posts since 27 Jan, 2007 from Eyeth
What you are talking about is called musical form and the frequently occuring call-and-response thing is a sentence that consists of an antecedent and a consequent phrases.
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- KVRAF
- 2830 posts since 2 Mar, 2003 from The only civilized county in Texas
Also known as tension-and-release. That happens on lots of levels. For instance C-G chords build tension, G-C resolves it.mauricio andrades wrote:I've been listening to a wide variety of tracks, and I've found a couple similarities between them.
*The melody is often dueling... in 2 or 4 bar patterns... the first 2 bars do something... and the latter 2 bars respond...
*The movement is often up or down over those 4 bars... repeating every 4 bars...
Here's a pretty good discussion of such extremely general principles: http://www.musique.umontreal.ca/personnel/belkin/bk/
Victor.