lesson 4:
i was working on a couple of films, sorry for the delay..
first i will introduce you to the explanation, next, what to do...
now that you have the base or root of visualization for chord changes we will deal with "Melodic leading" and this is very similar to VOICE LEADING but instead of chordal movement of the voices of a chord (voice leading) we deal with melodic movement of the voices of a progression thru the chords...
in this exercise I want you to focus on extensions..... so, first we will do a little quiz and then the lesson...
in this quiz,, i will ask you to, for example, write a melody using only
9ths and 11ths...
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oes that mean all 9's and 11's have to be natural?.. NO..
you have to alter the 9ths in order to make them fit, not in the key but in the melody..
how do we know the melody will ask for a b9 or a #11 instead of a #9 or natural 11?... BY BEING AWARE OF WHAT WE ARE DOING,
what i mean by this is that you should know wether you are trying to make a flowing melody of tight intervals and close voicings or an open harmonic melody...
we will talk about that as we continue working..
so, for this exercise i want you to BE AWARE THE MELODY WITHIN THE FLOW OF THE CHANGES...
that means that if you played a D minor chord and added a 9th.. in this case lets say you added an E natural as the 9th of D.. then you see in the next measure a Emin7 chord... for the E minor chord you should see what chord comes before and what chord comes after...
that means that if the next chord is a Fmaj7... most likely you are in the key of C major because it was followed from Emin7, so the 9th of E would have to be a b9... (F is the b9 of E)
Lesson#4: (quiz and then later on i will give a longer version)
i will give you a progression and you should write a melody using eight notes.....
the melody could contain any note you want, but make sure you add 9ths and 11ths at least once on each measure or chord division...
have fun.
