Creative Music Composing
Self-Teaching Manual
Fig.
24 -
5/8 Uneven Time
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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 3 from Creative Music Composing by Paul Rodricks:
Section 3
“Take a music bath once or twice
a week for a few seasons, and you’ll find that it is to the soul what the water
bath is to the body.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Rhythm
in Music
Time Signatures
Before or in front of the Clef, at
the beginning of each melody is the time-signature.
We have two types of Time Signatures, Simple and Compound Time.
The simple
time, also known as the common time
Signatures being:
2/4
3/4
4/4
6/8
The other simple Time Signatures are: 2/8,
2/2, 3/8, 3/2, 4/8 and 4/2
Compound
Time Signatures are: 6/4, 6/2, 9/8, 9/4, 9/2, 12/8, 12/4 and 12/2.
The Meaning of Time
Signature
The upper number indicates the number of “beats”
in a bar or measure. The “beat”
is equivalent to tapping your foot in time [(down - and (up)
in a quarter note] to music or the metronome
Bottom number tells
us
what type of note gets one beat.
The bottom value is generally the number 4, which is a quarter note
(1/4) receiving one beat.
See below examples of the most common time signatures, namely 3/4 and 4/4 ones:
See below examples of the most common time signatures, namely 3/4 and 4/4 ones:
Fig.
20 -
Interpreting 3/4 Time Signature
Fig. 21 – Interpreting 4 /4 Time Signature
& Note Duration Values
Common
Time
Letter C appearing in place of the
time signature means Common Time, which is 4/4 time.
You will also come across other
time-signature of time values, such as 2/2, which is a faster tempo, known as cut-time
and is represented other times as a C stricken with a (slash) /.
Fig. 22 - Examples of
Common and Cut Common Time Signature
Simple and Compound
Time
Then there are Uneven time signatures
like 3/8, 5/4, 5/8, 7/8, 9/8, 11/8 and 12/8, rarely used in western music or
songs, except some in Jazz music.
These are Simple Time and Compound Time
Notes:
Fig. 23 - Simple & Compound Time Notes
Simple Compound
For an example of
5/8 Uneven Time, there are 2 Beats to the Bar, one beat of Simple Time
and one beat of Compound Time.
Triplet
1. Simple 2. Compound
In the example of 9/8 Uneven Time below,
we have 4 Beats to the Bar and three simple time beats and one compound time
[triplet] beat.
Fig.
25 - 9/8
Uneven Time
1 2 3 4
Simple Compound
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Paul Rodricks,
Author.
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