WRITING A GOOD VOCAL MELODY (melodic shapes-sawtooth)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ก.ค. 2024
- Writing a good vocal melody is hard. How do you write a vocal melody and what makes a good vocal melody? Melodic shapes can be a great place to start creating melodies for a song. They don't require you to know much music theory and can be a big part of making melodies express the emotion of the song and its lyrics. In this video, we look at how to make a good vocal melody using the sawtooth or zigzag shape melodic contour.
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Have you been getting your melodies in shape over the summer?
Never thought I'd say this, but you should add advertisements to your videos. They're simply too high quality to not be making good money off of them. Whatever Hooktheory is paying you ain't enough for how great these videos are. Seriously my favourite songwriting channel, which is amazing given how few subscribers you have (though I'm sure that will soon change).
Cheers K, I really appreciate that. I hate seeing adds on videos, but yeah at some point I might. That's why I set up a patron so hopefully I can leave this content add free.(if you saw an add on this video, it's because of a copyright claim) Thanks for the kind words, it's great to hear that your finding the content useful.
Nah mate, wanna keep this gem to myself
Agreed - this is why I became a channel member!
How about no.
@@SongWritersChopShop He means google ads to push your videos in front of other videos. You can keep your videos ad free :). This is pure gold!
Great advice. I love how you actually use examples and show detail. Others don't do this.
Cheers Sadie, that's exactly why I wanted to do these vids. Glad you're enjoying them.
Very interesting! Your videos are awesome, keep up the good work!
Thanks for such quality content!
Your videos contain so much valuable information on songwriting. I really appreciate your knowledge and the efforts you put in making those videos. Thanks!
Cheers Pina Colada, Great to hear you are getting value from it.
This is great content. Thank you.
Excellent I’m learning so much. I can’t feel MY face right now!! Coz I love ya. Can’t wait for a new vid.
aww shucks, love you too mate.
Its something new for me, Thank You Tony 🙂
great to hear Kaka, get working on those melodies. Any questions let me know.
love you u helped me so much❤
brilliant - thanks bro
No worries Tt, glad you enjoyed it.
You should do habits of songwriters. If you are going to do so, please do Kurt Cobain.
Great idea loudandfast. I've been looking for ages on info about Kurt's process, it's hard to find. If you know of anything, give me a shout.
Awesome vids. Cheers
cheers mark, glad you found iy useful.
Wow born to die is so beautiful
Sure is, she has some great tracks.
Some of these examples sound like a very slowed down trill. Which might be a way of approaching this conceptually.
Great point Eduardo, I guess they would have to be slower than an average trill to be able to sing lyrics over. I also think they play a more central role than most trills and not as much of an "ornament" (not always of course). But approaching it in a conceptual way is the best way IMO. It's all about finding a way to think about these ideas in a way that makes sense to us individually. And then getting creative with them. The similarity between trills and this shape never even occurred to me, so thanks, it's given me some food for thought. cheers
I think you would be great at breaking down this bands song "The Used" I Caught Fire.
Would love to hear you talk about Arcade Fire or Twenty One Pilots :) love your dissections of different artists!
Cheers PenguinRaids, I'll add them to the list. What songs of theirs are your favorites?
This is so helpful thanks
Cheers Ron, glad you got some value from it.
@@SongWritersChopShop I've been writing songs for over twenty years. Of course I got value from it! Your channel has really been incredibly useful I can't wait to see more!
@@RonCavagnaro Thanks for the kind words Ron, it's much appreciated. Plenty more on the way.
@@SongWritersChopShop your channel should be way more popular! Keep going and thanks for all of the insight. Wish I had looked at songwriting the way you do, I'm all DIY lol
@@RonCavagnaro hey there's nothing wrong with the DIY approach. I was like that for years until I started hitting too many creative blocks and that led me to study techniques. The tools I learnt really got me moving again. cheers Ron.
Very helpful information. The subtext provided in the melody shape is a big ingredient I’d been missing. I’ve been looking for the ascending and descending melody shape videos, but haven’t been able to find them. Can you link them here?
Thank you for what you do!
Cheers Craig, good to hear you are finding it useful. I haven't done the ascending or descending vids yet. I'll get around to soon tho!
Is there an app or website where we can upload songs do see these scales? I find them really cool and informative. Thanks
Cheers thephilipeffect. do you mean upload your own songs?
@@SongWritersChopShop Yes boss. To see these keys and scales while the song play.
@@ThePhilipEffect I don't really know of any tbh. you could always go to onlinemictest.com and sing your melody.
it will show you the notes you've just sung. then go to scaleschords.com and type in those notes and that will tell you what chords will go with your melody.
I'd imagine in this day and age there are apps and sites that will analyze a song, I just don't what they are. let me know if you find some.
HOOkTheory, he just said it about 6:50 secs in 💪🏽 happy writing! and thanks chop shop! im a guitarist struggling w vocal melodies atm
Вачь?!!! :-*
Has anyone ever said that it sounds like Connor Mcgreggor narrates these vids?
Yep, but if you were Irish you'd hear that I don't. It would be hilarious if Connor was songwriting nerd tho!
Shouldn't you have used songs for the singers actually sing with feeling tipped through this point? Instead I heard a cover of Aint no sunshine by a horrible singer. And van halen But sounding like northern exposure. They are both awful.