Today, I'm going to answer a question: Should You Think About Form When Writing a Melody? This really plagued me for years. We'll talk about one of the masters of form,...
Today, I'm going to show you how to find structural moments in a melody. Figuring out where these are is crucial to formulating your own music.
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Today, I'll show you how to fix a boring melody using the octave trick. A crazy simple fix that always works. And also welcome back to May Melody Madness where I'm...
Today, we're talking about how the power of arpeggiation can help us write a better melody. Welcome to May Melody Madness where I'm making a ton of videos to celebrate the...
Today, we're taking the immensely popular melody for Claire de Lune by Debussy and learning how to write our own melody out of it. Just like last week, we're stealing a...
Today, we're learning how to write a melody like Beethoven. Good ol' Ludwig Van...But instead of straight mimicry, we're going to take elements of Beethoven's music to use...
It's important to stand on the shoulders of past masters. In this case, we can glean how great composers handled changing registers in a melody. Oh and there's an example...
When we foreshadow a melody, we're making it feel inevitable – like it was always meant to happen. This feeling of inevitability is really not all that hard to...
When we write a melody, sometimes we need a harmony to go long with it. Today I'm sharing a powerful tip rooted in voice leading to ensure your harmony sounds amazing,...
What does Mozart, The Lord of The Rings, and Tears for Fears have in common? A powerful melodic technique to make your music sound great. Today, I’m sharing their...
Telling whether or not our melody is actually good can be a huge pain point all us songwriters and composers have to weather at some point. But fret not – I’ve...
