Analyzing these parts of your melody while thinking about everything below can help you improve, refine and make your melody as good as possible. To see what makes a good melody, we'll …

Learning Objective: Students will learn about melody by distinguishing it from beat and rhythm, and explore melodic contour by vocalizing and drawing their own melodic shapes.

Melodies in Western tonal music typically have implied harmony, a background chord progression from which important tones of the melody are drawn.

Melody organizes musical sound, and the musical idea behind the sound, as speech organizes thought and statement.

In short, melody is tonal monodic movement, temporal and spatial, which is inex-tricably connected with human utterance, both gestural and vocal.

We will learn some cool, but easy examples, but first, to be able to master this technique we need to know tons of chord voicings. So let´s list some of the chord types that we can use in any …

Core melody is usually about two notes per bar, uses primarily the key scale and is almost exclusively made with tones that are common to the key scale and current chord, or a version …