maximedupre
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I'm having a hard time building some really good melodies. I really really like this melody at the drop: Siméon - Pablo VIP [FREE DL] - YouTube, so I went and recreate it too see if I could find any patterns with the scale degrees. Considering each bar have 6 notes, this is what I found:
First bar:
-tonic
-dominant
-mediant
-dominant
-subdominant
-leading tone
Second bar:
-supertonic
-tonic
-leading tone
-dominant
-tonic
-leading tone
Third bar:
-tonic
-subdominant
-supertonic
-mediant
-tonic
-dominant
Fourth bar:
-tonic
-dominant
-tonic
-dominant
-subdominant
-mediant
Total in the 4 bars:
tonic: 7
supertonic: 2
mediant: 3
subdominant: 3
dominant: 6
submediant: 0
leading tone: 3
What I retain from that is that the most used notes of a scale should be the tonic and dominant when building a melody, that the leading tone is often the last notes of a bar and that the tonics are mostly at the beginning at the bar, but is there any other thing I should know? Because this isn't very concluding! I know I should not be trying to follow a recipe and use my imagination, but I'm pretty sure there are some good techniques to follow when making a melody.
First bar:
-tonic
-dominant
-mediant
-dominant
-subdominant
-leading tone
Second bar:
-supertonic
-tonic
-leading tone
-dominant
-tonic
-leading tone
Third bar:
-tonic
-subdominant
-supertonic
-mediant
-tonic
-dominant
Fourth bar:
-tonic
-dominant
-tonic
-dominant
-subdominant
-mediant
Total in the 4 bars:
tonic: 7
supertonic: 2
mediant: 3
subdominant: 3
dominant: 6
submediant: 0
leading tone: 3
What I retain from that is that the most used notes of a scale should be the tonic and dominant when building a melody, that the leading tone is often the last notes of a bar and that the tonics are mostly at the beginning at the bar, but is there any other thing I should know? Because this isn't very concluding! I know I should not be trying to follow a recipe and use my imagination, but I'm pretty sure there are some good techniques to follow when making a melody.
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