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Tagged with songwriting melody
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Is adapting existing melodies a useful way to improve composition skill?
As the saying goes ‘immature talents borrow; mature ones steal’. When I write songs I normally start with chord changes and try to sing something over them, but this often results in uninteresting ...
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Can step-away structural tones have Neighbor tones?
As far as I understand, Neighbor tones(Upper and Lower tones) can only occur between repetition of structural tones as in the picture below.
but another picture suggests that between structure tones ...
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The reading of a song: what a beginner in composition needs to pay attention when reading a song? [closed]
Firstly, I'm a beginner in composition and all of my songs were quite "intuitive". I'm at a stage where I really need to know music theory in order to produce better songs.
I) Introduction
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Why is (vocal) melody usually written in quarter notes? [closed]
While writing melody, I was trying to stretch short verses into 16 bars by using too many whole and half notes, and now I think it was equal to having tempo at half speed. Most melody is written with ...
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Does the starting note for a song have to be the starting note of its scale?
Does a scale always have to start off with the note it is named after? For example, the Dm scale is defgab♭cd`. If I wanted to sing a song in D minor, would I have to start with the note D? Or could ...
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I can't hear the chords in this song, are there any or am I mistaking chords for melody? [closed]
I'm trying to train my hear to listen and separate out the chords, melody, bass, and drums in music I enjoy listening to, and practice my music by re-creating these styles.
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what are the characteristics that define a "good" melody?
When composing a song, I think it might help if I understood what some of the characteristics of a good melody might be, and do those characteristics apply generally across the board or are they ...
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How to convert what I'm singing to notes
I've been trying for months to get the songs in my head down to piano. But whenever I try none of the notes seem to fit what I'm singing. I'm guessing this is because I'm either A: out of tune or B: ...
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What is considered to be inspiration? How can I be sure my idea is original?
I'm feeling like I'm not fully understand what degree of musical creativity is considered to be creating original content or inspiration.
When a musical idea "jumps in my head" it sometimes remind me ...
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Songs melody range
I'm writing a vocal song and I'm worried about the range of the melody..
for example in C Major key what is the lowest and highest melody I could go ?
I appreciate every answers..but..I don't want ...
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melody starting point on song parts
Hi I'm writing a song in a Bb Major key
and the chords goes something like
EbM7 , F7 , Gm7
and the first note of the melody starts with G note. (this is the main chorus part)
And if the verse part ...
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Turning lyrics into melody
Ive currently been having great difficulty turning my lyrics and poems into a melody. i've considered aligning the accented syllables as well as the meter with accented beats but am still having ...
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Why do certain vocal melodies work in context when those same melodies would sound dissonant on instruments?
I've been transcribing more vocal lines lately in songs I like, to go along with the usual instrument transcription I do, and I've noticed something interesting - a lot of my favorite vocal parts ...
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how can I develop my top-line melody writing style?
I'll try to use definitions from writing speech, in order to explain my question.
In order to write an essay, you need to know the alphabet, some vocabulary, grammar, syntax and combine the words in ...
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What notes to sing with chords
Ok, lets say you are playing a guitar and you have a song with 4 chords ( C D Am and F ).
Should I sing the C note for C chord and D note for D chord and A note for Am and F note for F chord ?
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