Melody for Composers (Part1): how to Write a Strong Motif
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- Опубліковано 7 жов 2024
- In this video, we'll kick start a new series on writing melodies. In it, we'll focus on figuring out what makes a strong and effective motif.
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A motif is a short musical idea that can be used to build entire pieces of music. Lots of strategies for writing melodies rely on first having a strong motif. In this video, we'll cover a basic strategy for making sure your motifs are strong enough and interesting enough to support a full-length piece of music.
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Not to disrespect my previous professors but as someone who attended the conservatory, this video explained and articulated the subject much better that my 2 semesters of composition classes.
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Watching from Zimbabwe I brought a couple of my friends with me subscribed
Thank you, Trash Beats!
It's interesting how you can apply this even to dubstep basses, most of them use contrast in timbre and rythm. A lot of bass shots are basically motifs. Thanks, this helped me understand some stuff.
This is amazing. The internal contrast concept is game changing!
Man, you are hands down one of the greatest teachers that i Know! Thanks for being so helpful and improving my composing skills.
Woah, was not expecting this. Really looking forward to part 2!
This is my favorite music “reference” channel. Thank you.
Very good video to
Create simple and effective melodies. Saved to screenshots.
Thx again
This is one of the best today video for me) i don't have one of keys for my musician mind and now get. I understand that, when my mind give me new ideas when i listen examples. Good development for creativity
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You simplify and explain so well. Thank you.
One of the best videos about writing music awsome thank you for your helpful videos
Thank you very much for your great channel!
Can't thank you enough for your help. Really helped me a lot to know orchestration better.
I'm glad that I could help :)
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Inversion
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Excellent presentation, well done sir!
Thank you it was very well exemplifyed
Excellent video! I look forward to this series :)
Dude... I just only watched only this video of yours. And subbed already. Really, it is so qualified video and havent seen any other of your video but just justicing by this one. You have to keep it up man. Great work.
Thanks, Lygian! Glad to have your support :)
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Love it.
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I have been reading this book recently,yet I cannot really understand what internal contrast means,thanks for your explanation, very appreciate for your work !
Superb content
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Thank you :)
Credibility our the window when you talk about two notes from Hans Zimmer.
Alan Belkin just started a new series on his book
Awesome! Thanks for letting me know, I'm definitely going to check this out!
Question: If I were to use a polyrhythm in my motif, would the fact that the motif's rhythm is different from the beat of the piece enough to create that internal contrast? Or not if I keep the note length the same?
excellent question! I think it would work :)
Melody is the hardest thing for me. I can add drums but my chords and melody just dont match.
I just want to learn to do catchy sumple melodies with with like 3 to 5 notes.
This playlist should help. If you're looking for something shorter, I have a video I released last week that can help :)
Hmmm… “they just have to be good enough.” It seems to me that a motif needs to be far more than that; it needs to be memorable. It seems to me that that’s a fundamental requirement of a motif, or at least a very strong preference.
Then again, maybe we’re saying the same thing two ways: Maybe being memorable is what makes it “good enough” (or at least part of that)?
Is this layout of articulation mapping something that is native to CuBase? It's so nice...
Yes it is! You have to set up the maps yourself, but it isn't difficult. It makes things much simpler than having to remember key switches (in my opinion).
What software do you use??
I use Cubase :)
How did you get Cubase to allow each note to be a different articulation? Is that doable with any VST?
Cubase has something called "Expression Maps" Where I can tell it to use specific articulations, so long as the VST has them available (you have to make the maps yourself though). The basic premise is built on "key-switches" which are available already in most VST's. The basic idea is that by hitting a specific key outside of the instrument's usable range, you can switch the articulations used :)
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