Hey! I am Mark Black and welcome to expertvillage.com
and we are going to be talking about advanced
theory in song writing. The melody, which
is again the notes, the most important notes
of your song being imagine them as if they
are played by an instrument rather than with
words. Only reason is that the words add meaning
and we want to consider the melody without
meaning. This isn’t cool…You want to think
about that, is that beautiful, is that exciting?
You know if we go…. so that is the melody
for I have been waiting for a girl like you
that is an interesting line, somewhere over
the rainbow … very dramatic, which is a
contrast in range. We can hold notes long,
we can use dissonance and for example I am
not trying to pick on or do bunch of Broadway
stuff or whatever, but that chord has that
dissonance and another song comes in mind,
another Broadway song; please don’t check
out on me because that is Maria. This is a
dissonance Maria I just…… that is a dissonance
and you want to resolve and your ear goes,
I hear that. So a song that comes to mind
that is not like that is… I mean that is
like that but it is not a Broadway tune, it
is an incubus. It is much easier to run, taking
the… I do not know the words because we
are talking about the melody so that is an
interesting melody, there is dissonance in
there, dissonance in those other examples
and that make to ear go, ooh! That has got
my attention.
