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Writing Melodies for Beginners

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This is a free course on how to write melodies. This course is a beginning for anybody starting to write melodies. No music theory knowledge is needed!

Melody is one of the most difficult things to teach. And you can learn it for free here. No matter the style or genre.

Who Is It For?

Songwriters, composers, music producers and musicians. No matter what you do in music. If you are interested in learning about melodies this course is for you. The best of all is that it is absolutely free.

All examples have notes, tabs and MIDI so everybody can follow along.

What's Included?

  • Note examples
  • Tabs
  • MIDI downloads

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Curriculum

  • 9 Sections
  • 32 Lessons
  • 0m Duration
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Introduction
3 Lessons
  1. Info and How To Use This Course
  2. Recommended Learning Materials
  3. Extra Lessons & Feedback
1. Notation
4 Lessons
  1. Note Values and Rests
  2. Metrum and Bars
  3. Other Time Signatures
  4. Dots and Ties
2. Metrum and Rhythmic patterns
4 Lessons
  1. Rhythmic Patterns in 4/4
  2. Rhythmic Patterns in 3/4
  3. Rhythmic Patterns in 6/8
  4. Irrational Rhythms
3. Tempo
1 Lesson
  1. What Is Tempo?
4. Pitch
5 Lessons
  1. The Note Names
  2. What Are Intervals?
  3. The Major Scale
  4. The A Minor Scale
  5. Stable and Unstable Tones
5. Key Signatures and Tonality
6 Lessons
  1. Finding Harmonies in Major
  2. Finding Harmonies in Minor
  3. Basic Major Chord Progressions
  4. Basic Minor Chord Progressions
  5. Circle of Fifths and Key Signatures
  6. The Relative Major and Minor
6. Basic Melodic Movement
4 Lessons
  1. Stepwise Motion
  2. Skips
  3. Leaps
  4. Combining Different Types of Melodic Movement
7. Consonance and Dissonance
2 Lessons
  1. Tone Tendencies
  2. Consonance and Dissonance Between Melody and Harmony
8. Melodic Phrases
3 Lessons
  1. Short Phrases
  2. Long Phrases
  3. Combining Short and Long Phrases
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