Harmonizing an Ascending Scale with 5-6 Alterations - Music Composition

This music composition lesson demonstrates an idea for alternating inversions and an associated melodic pattern above an ascending scale in the bass line. Ascending scales in the bass can be awkward to harmonise satisfactorily without generating parallels. This alternating 5-6 pattern illustrates one way of handling the situation in a way that is musically interesting and which activates an engaging use of musical tension. These kind of structures are useful for composers working in any genre and are especially for building bridges or other connections between musical ideas.
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0:00 - Introduction to harmonizing an ascending scale with 5-6 alterations
1:41 - A simple solution
7:14 - Playing the piece
7:48 - Ideas to make it more interesting
8:11 - Reversing the upper parts
8:49 - Conclusion
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Great video as always! Thank you so much for explaining this clearly. I love this channel.

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That's so simple yet really clever!

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Great Tip Gareth

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Great idea Gareth, thanks 😀

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Interesting and very useful. Thank You Gareth

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I can't wait to practice this.
It would be great to have some performance videos so we could watch how you approach fingerings.

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I always find your movement more interesting compared to whacking flat chord. It has been 6th😊

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Great video, as usual!
A suggestion: what about making a video about English cadences? A rather simple, yet very interesting topic.

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Is this like the rule of octave? I’m starting to study and haven’t got to that yet. Thank you again for this videos. 🤗

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It’s certainly linked.

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Hi Gareth, I hope all is well. Just asking a question here about an older video as I wasn’t sure you’d see it otherwise, and would be very grateful you could give any advice. I’m currently in my Lower Sixth year of school, studying Music, History, Philosophy and English A level , and I’m thinking of applying for music at Oxford. After watching your video about your own experience of music at Oxford (which I really enjoyed by the way), can I ask whether your experience of it involved a good deal of academic/historical/even philosophical material that pertained to music, rather than it being solely about studying the music itself. I do still love analysing music and its compositional side, but as someone who also has passions in history (and is considering this for an undergraduate degree too), do you think the music course would be historical enough to whet my historical appetite? To be honest l, I’m not really considering music for a career, but rather politics or law, but do you think that it would be rich enough as a course to develop my skill set in these disciplines rather than just enhancing my understanding of music itself? Thanks for any help you could give

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Hi. The Oxford course is full of academic content. I think you’ll enjoy all those aspects there. Good luck and let me know how it goes.

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@@MusicMattersGBBrilliant, thanks

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