15 ways to vary your melody
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- čas přidán 11. 07. 2024
- In this video, I demonstrate 15 techniques for varying a simple melody.
0:00 Introduction
5:41 Original Melody
5:53 Metric Change
7:32 Tempo Change
8:29 Rhythmic Change
9:08 Register Change
9:46 Melodic Harmonization
10:44 Maintaining Contour
11:10 Ornaments
11:25 Augmentation
12:18 Diminution
12:26 Interruption
12:38 Retrograde
12:49 Inversion
13:01 Fragmentation
13:49 Repetition
14:03 Deception
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You write wonderful melodies!
thank you
Very helpful and informative. Thank you! Keep them coming!
Thanks!!
Please keep posting these videos, they help out a great deal!
I'm glad they help!!
I love your melodies, they're so catchy. . Also the video was very informative ❤
Thanks!
Amazing thanks for sharing and preparing this video
You're welcome!
These examples have been a true ear opener for me - thank you!
You're so welcome!
I love your videos Alex. You are a really great teacher!
I appreciate that!
Thank you!! 👍👍
You're welcome!
Great video! Thank you so much for this! It will be very useful when I have inspiration block.
Glad to help!
how do you still only have 4k subs? You are great!
Thanks! Hopefully the channel continues to grow!
Recently just found out about your channel so I'm in a bit of a binge-watching session. I love your videos, can't believe your content is free. Thank you for blessing us with your content :)
Thank you so much!!
That sounds cool , i am wondering if there is any notation software would vary the rhythms as you did or at least some of them. Thanks for sharing
I love your melody- I'll admit when it started I wasn't even looking- just doing something else- and for maybe one second (or less) I thought it was going to be some boring Hollywood-esque type tune, something playing in the background of some "Driving Miss Daisy" imitation's opening credits- then that A-natural really made me do a double take! I had to go back and listen again- it sounded like some sort of cross relation or dissonance with the left hand! And there's something about the cross relations and altered scale tones, and the sort of twisted contour of the tune that make it very engaging and unique- the closing cadence's chord with no 3rd but an F in its stead is just the icing on the subverted expectation cake. My kind of tune! Well done.
Why does it make my think of a film score!?
Great video and techniques, but I would've appreciated a bar of silence between the variations. As it is, the jumps between were a bit jarring.
Bravo! I agree Retrograde and Inversion don't particularly work by themselves but they almost sound like inner parts in a 3 or 4 part texture. Do you ever experiment with them that way?
haven't tried that, but perhaps on a subconscious level I'm often doing something similar