Creative Music Composing
Self-Teaching Manual
Fig. 27 - The 6/8 Time Signature. The number below the note indicates the number of beats per note.
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Self-Teaching Manual
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 (Continued)
Examples of changing from
Simple to Compound Time.
Fig. 26 - Changing
Simple to Compound Time
In 6/8 time
signature, the eight note (half of the common quarter note) receives one beat
and there are six beats to a measure.
Fig. 27 - The 6/8 Time Signature. The number below the note indicates the number of beats per note.
Beats: 3 3 1 1 1 2 1 6
Music Note Values
& Rhythm
Fig. 28 – Rhythmic
Divisions of the Music Notes:
We shall now go
into a detailed study of the rhythmic values of the musical notes.
You can see from the three examples of different
Time Signatures shown below {Figs.28(a) 29, 29(a) & 29(b), the changing rhythmic values of the common musical note
against the corresponding number of beats each receives for the duration of the
note, including a quarter-note rest period in the fourth bar of the second example
(Fig. 29(a)}:
Fig.28(a)
- Illustrating the Common Notes Timing:
Fig. 28(a) – Continued
Illustrating the Common Notes Timing:
Figs. 29, 29(a) and 29(b) – Specific Note
Duration Values in Common Time Signatures:
Fig. 29
Fig. 29 - continued
Fig. 29(a)
Fig. 29(b)
To be continued...
NEXT: COUNTING THE BEAT
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I invite your comments and queries. Thank you.
Paul Rodricks,
Author, Songwriter, Music Composer
Contact: paulrodericks@gmail.com