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Music Theory Monday | 17: Melody Making Basics (Patreon)

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2020-12-21 15:00:05
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2022-03-23 18:08:38
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2022-05

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Hi Everyone!

In this lesson, I get into the basics of melody making: building melodic phrases. Rules are meant to be broken pretty much all the time in music, but I lay down some nice simple guidelines for how to create melodic phrases using the Melody Quick Scratch Paper (attached below.) In this lesson, I was using an E Minor i - VII Jam track, which is linked right here and also attached below.

If you come up with some fun melodic phrases please share them on the community forum post for this lesson!

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DeDé

"CC iiiiiiiiii" 🤨 I did find a SPJ emoji 😀 Serious question though: Can I use this as one step before the BS lyrics, for turds and song writing stuff? Because I still don't know witch note I am singing, and I realised if I record Melodic stuff with my guitar is easier for me to try to copy the guitar with my voice. The paper doesn't work for me because I write without the knowledge how it sounds. Is that OK? Or strange? I just need to slide notes for my brain to understand that I don't need to change the "word" (BS meter) when I change the note. Hope you can understand the question, is kind of weird 🤨

Scott Paul Johnson
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Mateus, yes. Absolutely. You gotta learn what notes you're singing. And if you have to come up with a melody by guitar and paper first, that is ok. The more writing you do, the easier it is to hear if the melody is working over the chords, and the easier it is to make one up or fix or change a melody. Absolutely ok.

Patrick Brain

I'm late to the game but would feel remiss if I didn't express my "thanks" for a lesson excellently taught. You have a unique gift; unique because countless of other online teachers teach melody but seldom does one lesson seem all that different from the other. Your material and creativity help clarify and simplify topics that really make a difference as far as getting past campfire songs. Thanks for your energy and passion!