Creative Music Composing
Self-Teaching Manual
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Self-Teaching Manual
By Paul Rodricks
Have you ever felt the urge to write your own songs?
To compose your own lyrics and melody?
Are you a lyricist wishing to set music to your lyrics?
Or a music composer desirous of writing the lyrics to
your music? Or a music lover and hobbyist wondering
how songs are crafted?
If so, Creative Music Composing
is just the right practical
self-teaching manual for you. Because Songwriting has
never been made so easy and simple.
The Manual covers all the music aspects of Writing Melodies– melody notes, tonality of scales and harmony in chord progressions and rhythm. You begin from learning to create simple melodies to composing complete performing versions of songs by using the Digital Numbering System, the Solfeggio (do-re-mi) and ABCDEFG notation methods.
Become a successful Songwriter. Compose your
own Lyrics and Music to styles such as Pop, Rock,
Blues, Country, R&B, Jazz, Gospel and others.
Read here the Preview of the Section 2 from Creative Music Composing by Paul Rodricks:
Section 2
The Music Notes/Tones
Music notes are written on the
lines and in the spaces of the Staff.
Names of the notes on the lines of the
music Staff can be remembered as Every Good Boy
Does Fine and those that appear in the spaces,
between the lines of the Staff, as F A C E.
Below Figures 9 & 10 – Showing
Music Notes on the Lines and in the Spaces of the Staff.
Fig. 9 - Music
Notes on the Staff Lines
E G B D F
Fig. 10 – Music
Notes between the lines – in Spaces of the Staff
F A C E
The Ledger
Lines
When the range of notes goes outside the
staff on its either side, towards top or bottom, the notes are placed on short
lines called the “ledger lines”.
Fig. 11 – The Ledger Lines on G Clef & Bass Clef
G
A B C
D E F G
F E
D C B
A G F
The
Staff Pitch Symbols
The
Treble & Bass Clefs
The pitch or tone of any musical note on
the staff is determined by placing a graphical sign called the Clef at
the extreme left-hand side of the staff.
By establishing the pitch of the note on one particular line of
the staff, the Clef thereby fixes the pitch
of all the other notes lying on, or related to the same staff.
The
Treble or G Clef
The treble clef is also called the G
clef because the inner curve of the clef symbol marks the horizontal line
associated with the note G above middle C. The treble clef is actually a
stylized letter G.
Fig. 12 - The Treble or G Clef
Generally, melody for most instruments
including the guitar, keyboard and vocals [sight reading] is written in the G
Clef.
The Bass or F
Clef
The Bass Clef is also called the F
Clef because the two dots in the symbol which lie above and below the
horizontal line are associated with the note F below middle C. The Bass
Clef symbol is actually a stylized letter F.
Fig. 13 – The Bass or F
Clef
The Bass or F
Clef is the one you see, for instance, on the keyboard sheet music written
below the G Clef for playing the harmony – the chords – with your left hand.
The below figure shows
both symbols as they are positioned on the music staff.
Fig. 14
- Music
Notes of the C Major Scale as written on the Treble and Bass Clefs
Treble Clef Notes
Below Figure shows the melody notes of the
C Major Scale in 4/4 time, corresponding to the notes of the piano/keyboard
from the middle C to the high octave C, ascending
and descending:-
Fig. 15 - Treble Clef Notes of the C Major
Scale
Music Keyboard
Notes
In the following diagram the piano/organ
keyboard picture shows the middle C from which note you play the melody
with the right-hand. You will also notice that from below Middle C the Bass
Clef notes start, namely B A G F E D C B A G F E D C (as played with
the left hand).
Fig. 16 – The Piano/Organ Keyboard
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· Middle C
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The names of the C
Major scale notes as they appear on the staff of G Clef and Bass Clef
:
Bass Clef Notes
From the following examples in Figures 18
and 19 , you would learn the names of the notes written on the lines and in the
spaces of the staff for Bass, F clef sheet music:-
Fig. 18 – C Major Scale Notes
on Lines of the Bass Clef
G B
D F A
G ood B oys D o F ine A lways
Fig. 19 - C Major Scale Notes in the space,
between lines, of the Bass Clef:
A C E G All
C ows E at G rass
NEXT: SECTION 3
Rhythm
in Music
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Paul Rodricks,
Author.
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