Creative Music Composing
Self-Teaching Manual
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Self-Teaching Manual
Releasing soon......
Creative Music Composing
Self-Teaching Manual
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.
Table of Contents
Creative Music Composing : Writing Melodies
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Section 1 Lyrics and
Melody
- A Study of Contrast
Section 2 Music
Staff and Scale Notes
(i) The Music Staff, Bar/Measure
(ii) The Music Notes
(iii) The Ledger Lines
(iv) The Staff Pitch Symbol
- The Treble & Bass Clefs
- The Treble or G Clef
- The
Bass or F Clef
-
Treble Clef Notes
-
Music Keyboard Notes
- Bass Clef Notes
Section 3 Rhythm In Music
(i) Time Signatures
(ii) The Meaning of Time
Signature
(iii) Common Time
(iv) Simple and Compound Time
(v) Music Note Values &
Rhythm
(vi) Counting the Beat
(vii) Tempo
(viii) Beat Count in a Bar or
Measure
(ix) The Different Note
Values:
(x) Rest Time Values
(xi) Phonetic Rhythm Syllables for Note-values
(xii) Changing Note Values
(xiii) Time Signatures in
Relation to Music Styles
(xiv) Pickup Notes &
Measures
-
Pick-up Notes
-
Pick-up Bar or Measure
(xv) Ties, Slurs & Accidentals
- A
Tie
- A
Slur or Legato
- Accidentals
- Same
Tonality Accidentals
Section 4 Using
Scale Notes
(i) Major Scale Tones
(ii) Guitar Fretboard
(iii) Root Tone C on the Guitar-Fretboard
The Digital Number Notation System
- Numbering System for Chords
The Solfeggio Music Notation
- Solfege
Syllables
- The
Phonetic Solfege Syllables
- Solfeggio
for Sight-Reading
- Solfeggio
Phonetic Syllables
- Major Scale
Tones
- Natural
Minor Scale Notes
- Chromatic
Scale Tones Pitch-Pattern
Section 5 Studying
the Music Scales
(i) The Scale Degrees Tonality
(ii) Keyboard Tonality
(iii) The Major Scale
(iv) C Major Scale Notes
(v) The Minor Scale
(vi) Natural Minor Scale
(vii) Melodic
Minor Scale
(viii) Harmonic
Minor Scale
- Double
Harmonic Scales
-
Double Harmonic Major
- Double Harmonic Minor
(ix) The Diminished Scale
(x) The Augmented Scale
(xi) The whole Tone Scale
(xii) Chromatic 12 -Tone Scale
(xiii) The
Chromatic Scale on Guitar Fretboard
(xiv) A 10-Tone Minor Scale
(xv) Chart of Major Sharp and Flat Scales
(xvi) Major Sharp & Major Flat Notation Scales
(xvii) Relationship - Major and Minor Keys
(xviii) Major Keys with their Relative Minors
(xix) Stability of Scale Degrees
- Stable
& Unstable Tones
- Stable Tones
- Unstable Tones
-
Resolving Unstable Tones
(xx) Stability
of Chords
- Stable
& Unstable Chords
- Stable Chords
- Unstable Chords
(xxi) Exotic Scales
Section 6 Study
of Intervals
(i) The Melodic Intervals
(ii) A Quick Reference Intervals Chart
(iii) Minor, Diminished & Augmented Intervals
(iv) Harmonic Intervals
(v) Recognizing Intervals
(vi) Song
List for Identifying Intervals
Section 7 Harmony
in Chord Progression
(i) The Chord Progression
(ii) How Chords Are
Formed
(iii) Chord Tones
(iv) Chords from a Major
Scale
(v) Formation of 4-Tone
Chords
(vi) The 6th Chord
(vii) The Dominant 7th
Chord
(viii) The Augmented Seventh Chord
(ix) The Diminished Seventh Chord
(x) Major & Minor Seventh Chords
(xi) Roman Numeral Terms
for Chords
(xii) Chord Inversions
(xiii) How to
Harmonize Melody
(xiv) Defining Chords to the Song Structure
(xv) Writing Chords for
the Song
(xvi) Tips to make your
Chords Interesting
(xvii) Adding a Pedal Bass
(xviii) Using Additional
Chords
(xix) Modulation
Section 8 Most-used
Chord Structure
(i) General Chord Structure
(ii) Chart of Chords Progression in C
Major
(iii) The Cycle of 5ths
- Formulas to Remember the Cycles
(iv) The Extended Chords
- Creating Extended Chords
- 9th Chords
- Dominant
9th Chords
- The 11th Chord
- Dominant 11th Chords
- The 13th Chord
(v) A
Lesson in Chords Substitution
Section 9 Popular Song Scales & Chords
(Basis
for Blues, Rock, Pop, Country, Jazz)
(i) Rock – Pop - Country
- The
I – IV – V Chord Progression
- Chord-bar Variations
(ii) Doing the Blues
- The Blues Scale
- Blues 12-Bar Format & Chord
Progressions
- The simpler version Format
- Dominant 7th Chord Format
- 2nd Minor and Major Dominant 7th Version
- 12-bar blues sequences in minor key
- More Variations of the 12-Bar Blues
- The Popular Version
- Variation to above Version
Section 10 The Pentatonic Sound
(i) Pentatonic Scales & Chords
- The Pentatonic Scale – Major & Minor
- Major Pentatonic Scale
- Major Pentatonic Triad
- Minor Pentatonic Scale
- Minor Pentatonic Triad
- Pentatonic Scale Keyboard Sounds
- The Pentatonic 6th Chord
Section 11 All That Jazz
(i) Jazz Blues
- Chord Progressions
(ii) Jazz Scales Modes & Chords
- Jazz
Scale Tones
- Jazz Scale Modes based on Melodic
Minor
- The Regular Scale Modes
- Relationship with Major Scale
- Relationship with Minor Scale
- Aspects
of Relationship
- Modes
Based on Diatonic Scale-Degrees
(iii) Chart of Scales Modes based on the
12-Tone
Chromatic Scale
(iv) Jazz Chord Progressions
- I-vi-ii-V
- iim7-V7-I
(v) Jazz Harmonic Minor Scale
(vi) Jazz
Swing Rhythm
Section 12 Chords
& Tones Relationship
(i) Tension & Resolution
(ii) Chords Relationship (in Song
Form)
(iii) Non-chord
Tones
- Neighboring Tones
- Passing Tones
- Examples of Resolving Accidental and Skip
Non-
Chord Tones
Section 13 Putting
the Bits and Pieces Together
(i) Practical Exercise 1
- Writing a Melody from Scale Tones
(ii) Practical Exercise 2
- Writing the Chords & Melody
Section 14 More
Pointers on Harmony & Melody Patterns
(i) How Do You Make Your Song Outstanding?
Section 15 Matching Lyrics-Melody Rhythm
(i) Lyrical Stress
- Stressing
the Title Syllable
- Lyrical Tension & Resolution
(ii) Stressed and Un-Stressed Melody Notes
(iii) Grouping of Word-Syllables
- Setting
Music to Word-Group Patterns
(iv) Ideas for New Songs
Section 16 Getting Ready to Write Melodies
-
Brief Revision of Music Notation
(Scale Notes, Keyboard &
Guitar)
Different
Forms of Melodies
(In the act of composing)
(i) Step-by-step Movement
(ii) Directional Change
(iii) Repetition of Notes/Tones
& Sequences
(iv) Repeated Sequences and Leaps or
Skips
(v) Leap-like Movement
(vi) Splitting Word-Groups Across
Measures
(vii) Melody Themes & Sequences
(viii) 2-Bar/Measure Phrases
(ix) 4-Bar/Measure Phrases
(x) Longer Theme Motifs &
Sequences
(xi) Melodies From Harmony
- Harmony
Effect over Melody
(xii) Notes on Writing Melodies
- Melodies for Verse, Chorus &
Bridge
(xiii) Writing to Melody Contour
Outline
(xiv) Altering the Time-Value of
Notes
(xv) Re-Writing Melodies
(xvi) Reversing Melody
Section 17 Rhythm – Stress & Rhythmic Patterns
(i) Stressed & Unstressed Rhythm
(strong,
moderate and weak beat)
(ii) Syncopation
(iii) Rhythm Patterns
- Rhythm Patterns for Word-Groups
Section 18 The Composition of Song Forms
(For
a beginning)
(i) The Standard Song Forms
(ii) Summarizing on the Song Form
& Rhythm
Section 19 Song Composing Rhythm Format
(i) Example of the 32-Bar AABA
Song Rhythm Form
(ii) Example of a 24-Bar Waltz (3/4
Time) Song Form
Section 20 Lessons
in Transposing
(i) Transposing by Intervals
(ii) Transposing by Notes Distance
(Chromatic Step-wise)
- Counting
the Notes
- Transposing the chord
(iii) Transposing by Chords
(iv) Transposing by Scales
(v) A Supplementary Songwriting Form.
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