I hadn’t really thought before about why I got so obsessed with melody when I was in college. I was studying piano, but I also got into the school’s best choir. Singing great melodies is probably what connected them so deeply to my heart.
Beautiful lesson, I made a similar approach to music, concerned, in my early years about music theory especially chords and how to resolve dissonances into consonances. Now I'm free tonal and absolutely agree about the superiority of the melody. I think I prove that in my epic romantic music, especially piano music displayed in my TH-cam channel
That last example. Wow :) ❤ New subscriber here. You are very inviting and have that nack for wanting to share and inform others. Thank you for your videos.
I have many melodies for trumpet. I would like to develop chord progressions that express what the melody seems to be saying to me, so that when I share with another musician they have a starting point. What I'm discovering are so many possibilities, as illustrated in this video, but all my attempts to harmonize seem to result in a different song than what I started with in my simple melody. What I seem to have learned from my attempts is that there is not an easy technical fix to harmonize a melody. It's one thing to learn the technical possibilities, but it's not music until you can connect it to what you know but can't express in words.
Wonderful lesson. The timbre of the instrument is very difficult to discern in a smartphone. Maybe a regular piano sound would be better. Thank you. I'll be definitely waiting for your videos.
I love this topic. But what is the verb? Hmm . Let's see... Melodize? Melodiate? Melodify? Melodiddle? Melo-do? Melo-dello? Okay, now I'm just being silly. But it's a good question!
Love your videos. Just a heads up: the piano sounds really muffled and distorted on my phone - maybe you want to apply some eq or even a high-pass filter to it? I've noticed this in all videos I've watched that are not of you playing your real piano.
thanks. for this video i used a felted piano. definitely a choice. always a challenge though to balance VO with the Pianoteq piano. i actually favor a muted, beat up, sound. but maybe that doesn't translate well to the speaker on your phone.
@@ImpliedMusic Ah! That choice is of course yours to make :). It's just very hard to hear the lower register on a less-than-excellent sound system when this instrument is used. I still wonder if there are excessive low frequencies that cause some of the distortion...
A "9th" is a whole step above an octave, so a scale goes from 1 to 7, the 8th is the octave, the 9th is a whole step above the octave (in C: C/D/E/F/G/A/B (1-7), then another C (8th note) and then comes the 9th, so in C it's a D ---- you could say the 9th is the same as the 2nd, true in a lot of cases, but not always as there are chords with a modified 2nd or 9th ;) ).
I can read music as well, and I'm guessing that "perforated rolls of paper" have a far greater audience than musical notation. In my opinion, Chris is doing a fantastic job welcoming everyone into the wonderful world of music.
@@nielsensejltur thanks, many of us here read well too. You’ll find numerous videos on this channel that use standard European notation to illustrate these ideas. As to the value of an edit roll notation view, it’s become a default for many composers and producers, particularly those evolving with contemporary tools and techniques. This is theory for everyone, I hope.
Chris, whilst by no means a composer I mainly like this aspect of the channel, the technology used to create its examples, less so. As an inexperienced user of either note recording system I find the diatonic focus of the standard one much better, at the very least, for documenting a melody. And without that the rest of the large proportion of screen occupied by the piano roll is a complete waste for me. Sorry, don’t mean to rain on your parade, love the rest.
I hadn’t really thought before about why I got so obsessed with melody when I was in college. I was studying piano, but I also got into the school’s best choir. Singing great melodies is probably what connected them so deeply to my heart.
this was beautiful and fascinating!
Brilliant content, beautiful sounds, subscribed!
your voice is very soothing 👍
Thanks. So good.
Beautiful lesson, I made a similar approach to music, concerned, in my early years about music theory especially chords and how to resolve dissonances into consonances. Now I'm free tonal and absolutely agree about the superiority of the melody. I think I prove that in my epic romantic music, especially piano music displayed in my TH-cam channel
Top-quality content, top-quality teaching skills, top-quality delivery. Yes! Would love to see more of this.
@@BhaktaKali thanks. More to come, in addition to the existing content …
Loved the sound of the modal harmonizing.
That was just a beautiful sound.
Thank you very much!
melodization of harmony vs harmonization of melody, Chris, thanks again for another great video,
That was lovely- especially that last technique -and all are good food for thought. Thank you!
Awesome! Thank you for these amazing tips. Super well presented. Mark Bensette Aux Bois 🇨🇦.
Thank you for sharing your beautiful musical imagination once again
Great job, Chris. I really dig roots! 👍🎸🎹
I know the 5th mode of the melodic minor as 'Myxolydian b6' although in Jazz, of course, the melodic minor is the same ascending as descending.
That last example. Wow :) ❤
New subscriber here. You are very inviting and have that nack for wanting to share and inform others.
Thank you for your videos.
Great content and well explained!
so good - well done as always!
I have many melodies for trumpet. I would like to develop chord progressions that express what the melody seems to be saying to me, so that when I share with another musician they have a starting point. What I'm discovering are so many possibilities, as illustrated in this video, but all my attempts to harmonize seem to result in a different song than what I started with in my simple melody. What I seem to have learned from my attempts is that there is not an easy technical fix to harmonize a melody. It's one thing to learn the technical possibilities, but it's not music until you can connect it to what you know but can't express in words.
@@polanve true that.
« Melody is queen! » as Nadia Boulanger used to say.
100%
Thanks, great lesson.
Wonderful lesson. The timbre of the instrument is very difficult to discern in a smartphone. Maybe a regular piano sound would be better. Thank you. I'll be definitely waiting for your videos.
I love this topic.
But what is the verb? Hmm . Let's see...
Melodize?
Melodiate?
Melodify?
Melodiddle?
Melo-do?
Melo-dello?
Okay, now I'm just being silly. But it's a good question!
Hello
Love your videos. Just a heads up: the piano sounds really muffled and distorted on my phone - maybe you want to apply some eq or even a high-pass filter to it? I've noticed this in all videos I've watched that are not of you playing your real piano.
thanks. for this video i used a felted piano. definitely a choice. always a challenge though to balance VO with the Pianoteq piano. i actually favor a muted, beat up, sound. but maybe that doesn't translate well to the speaker on your phone.
@@ImpliedMusic Ah! That choice is of course yours to make :). It's just very hard to hear the lower register on a less-than-excellent sound system when this instrument is used. I still wonder if there are excessive low frequencies that cause some of the distortion...
@@positronalpha some good points... particularly about the bass freq
@@ImpliedMusic It seems to me you use the Roland A88 midi keyboard, which isn't felted of course. You used a felted piano samle I guess?
@@ModuSpaSm pianoteq, which doesn’t strictly speaking use samples but yes
You're assuming some perquisite knowledge here. 'If I add a 9th'. What's a 9th? How did you add it? No explanation left me confused.
@@skelligringphotographyandw7012 thanks. I’ve got a playlist “where to begin” that may be helpful.
A "9th" is a whole step above an octave, so a scale goes from 1 to 7, the 8th is the octave, the 9th is a whole step above the octave (in C: C/D/E/F/G/A/B (1-7), then another C (8th note) and then comes the 9th, so in C it's a D ---- you could say the 9th is the same as the 2nd, true in a lot of cases, but not always as there are chords with a modified 2nd or 9th ;) ).
Why don't you use real notes instead of this funy graphic. I can read music, but not piano roll.
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I can read music as well, and I'm guessing that "perforated rolls of paper" have a far greater audience than musical notation. In my opinion, Chris is doing a fantastic job welcoming everyone into the wonderful world of music.
@@nielsensejltur thanks, many of us here read well too. You’ll find numerous videos on this channel that use standard European notation to illustrate these ideas. As to the value of an edit roll notation view, it’s become a default for many composers and producers, particularly those evolving with contemporary tools and techniques. This is theory for everyone, I hope.
I prefer the piano roll view, but if you zoom it a little you may actually get the note name to show for each midi note. Just a tip.
Chris, whilst by no means a composer I mainly like this aspect of the channel, the technology used to create its examples, less so. As an inexperienced user of either note recording system I find the diatonic focus of the standard one much better, at the very least, for documenting a melody. And without that the rest of the large proportion of screen occupied by the piano roll is a complete waste for me. Sorry, don’t mean to rain on your parade, love the rest.