Me: The best way to end any song is with a Picardy third.
Partner: What if you're in a major key?
Me' ...Then you just sing "BITCHES!!!" really loud over the last chord.
From Metalhead to Maestro: 7 Essential Skills for Symphonic Composition
1/7
Craft melodic lines with chord tones.
• Start with simple chord tones.
• Use passing and neighbor tones.
• Analyze melodies from symphonic metal.
• Practice writing short, memorable phrases.
From Metalhead to Maestro: 7 Essential Skills for Symphonic Composition
3/7 Understand musical forms and structures:
• Learn about common forms like binary and ternary.
• Break down symphonic metal pieces.
• Write your own musical sentences.
• Experiment with different structures.
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From Metalhead to Maestro: 7 Essential Skills for Symphonic Composition
4/7 Integrate dynamic rhythms:
• Vary note lengths and rests.
• Syncopate rhythms for interest.
• Study rhythmic patterns in symphonic metal.
• Practice creating rhythm-only compositions.
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From Metalhead to Maestro: 7 Essential Skills for Symphonic Composition
5/7 Study symphonic metal hits:
• Analyze compositions from your favorite bands.
• Note their use of melody, harmony, and form.
• Try to recreate sections by ear.
• Learn from their orchestration techniques.
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From Metalhead to Maestro: 7 Essential Skills for Symphonic Composition
6/7 Combine scale and chord lines:
• Write scale-based melodies.
• Harmonize scales with chord tones.
• Practice integrating both in your compositions.
• Create exercises combining both elements.
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From Metalhead to Maestro: 7 Essential Skills for Symphonic Composition
Special Bonus Tip #8
8/7 Have a sweet hat:
• Choose a hat that reflects your style.
• Wear it while composing to get into the zone.
• Make it part of your signature look.
• Rock it with confidence.
Sometimes, a sweet hat is all the inspiration you need!
The first sentence is incorrect, and it goes downhill from there. In the second sentence, 'fourths' are now 'force.' The third sentence contradicts itself: quartal chords can be made with diminished fourths, but not diminished fourths. Sundar should be embarrassed. #MusicTheory
I''m reading up on #musictheory and being a visualized person I tried to visualize the relation between major and minor scales based on a lot of articles out there.
#bitwig has a nice feature where you can layer #midi clips, so this turned out pretty nice.
Green: Major scales
Orange: Minor scales
Grey: Their relative Major/Minor
"The circle of fifths is arguably the most helpful way of visually organizing Western music theory’s 12 chromatic pitches for learning. Seeing the notes laid out in a circle will help you unlock an understanding of how major and natural minor scales are organized, and also how they are related to each other. ..."
After a long wait I'm happy to announce that #Empirical#Musicology#Review just published our #data report on ~260 fully annotated #piano pieces from the long 19th century 🎉 I donate this #violin#plot to the @vagina_museum 😏 Thanks to our collaborators, annotators, and to my co-authors!
"OK children, gather round. We're going to play a very exciting piece of #Music today! The key is H Moll. The time signature is aksak, though halfway through we're switching to a foliseng in jhaptal. The balungan goes (begins singing) sa ga re do si la so ding deng knong 6 5 6 1 tsu ro ro-meri rast, though feel free to do some hiljainen haltioituminen, as long as it fits within the isometric pulse. Any questions?” #MusicTheory#Ethnomusicology#Humour
You can tune any instrument to any arbitrary frequency for center-c and as long as all the notes are of the same relative difference between them the melodies will generally work and harmonize. As long as all the instruments are synced it will sound ok in a band too.
In modern day we have a definition of what frequency center C is. But I have to wonder, how do we know the modern day frequency for middle-C is anywhere near the frequency used historically. In fact, when even was the idea solidified at all?
This is what happens when I'm studying music theory and have a stray thought about a potentially fun play on words, then realize it's best done with pictures, then spend a few hours wrestling the images I need out of #Midjourney, then learn several new tricks with the Gimp image editor while figuring out how to lay out and label the images the way I've been imagining.
I am willing to go a long way for a good joke. Hopefully this one is. 🙂🎶
This evening I've been thinking about ways to feel a 5/4 time signature. One common pattern is long-long-short-short. For example, "Take Five" does this while also dividing the longs. The "Mission Impossible" theme does it straight.
Then I realized that long-long-short-short is Morse code, -- .., which spells...MI! Some Googling indicates that nobody knows if the "Mission Impossible" theme's composer did this intentionally. I really hope he did. 🙂🎵