Melody Making 02 | Basic Phrases
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Hi Everyone,
Now that you've been listening more closely to phrases, it's time to practice writing your own! This lesson talks about skips, steps, and repeats and gives you a nice starting point for writing your own phrases. Check out the PDF, and post your homework to the community forum via post Melody Making 02 | Basic Phrases
HOMEWORK - Writing basic phrases
• Practice making phrases using the diagrams on the PDF (attached at bottom of post)
Your phrases must all follow these rules:
1. Use no more than 7 notes
2. Stay within an octave
3. Experiment with a mix of skips and steps
4. Experiment with repeating notes
5. Experiment with long and short notes
6. Share your favorite 3 phrases with the community
Other lessons in this series:
Melody Making 01 | Overview
Melody Making 02 | Basic Phrases (Current Lesson)
Melody Making 03 - Coming soon
Comments
had a breakthrough moment with this lesson thank you, Scott!
Alexander j
2024-12-08 20:40:24 +0000 UTCJust found this band on YouTube... do you know this? Is a melody band... they probably watched your lessons. 😀 https://youtu.be/q6m6lmkJG68
DeDé
2023-05-29 20:16:58 +0000 UTCThanks for the lesson Scott, I'm finding these really useful and fun. Also the presentation is brilliant, I like the side note camera and the powerpoint style rules as you're listing them.
Richard Stapleton
2023-05-25 09:55:31 +0000 UTCFIXED!
Scott Paul Johnson
2023-05-24 15:57:31 +0000 UTCYay! I’m just starting this lesson, but I think I found a typo on “Hey Good Lookin”. It shows an open D string, but I think you meant to notate the open G string
Tasha McManus
2023-05-23 05:19:39 +0000 UTC
