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harmonic or melodic form if the given
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this is a second type of melody writing
that I am going to cover today by the
way if you haven't watched part 1 talking
about pre-designed templates for
melody writing, you can check it out in my
description box down below let's start
the lesson now
and after this lesson I look forward to
seeing you in my next video I talk about
more complex and more complicated style of melody
writing, some have irregular phrases, some start with upbeat  some have more complexed texture.
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let's start the lesson now
hi welcome back to this video so let's
revise quickly on what we did in
previous lesson. over here  the opening key is in C minor and the given
opening has six notes
so I've done a imitation in bar 3
to 4 so over here I want six notes
because the given opening has six notes
okay so I also composed six notes this is
how I do it as in the previous lesson we
did a IV to V, chord IV to V here, which is F A C and G B D this is a
imperfect cadence so in order to create
six notes like bar one in bar 3 I've
chosen C C and F as main chord notes so
if I repeat the C, I add B as an auxiliary note
when I skip from C to F I added D and E as 
passing notes okay
and using the same method I also do the
same thing for next bar, I have G G I
repeat the G as a chord note
so in between I added A as an auxiliary note
so for  middle line we need to modulate
to E-flat major so please remember when
your melody started with minor key
you must always modulate to major okay so
the middle line will always be in major key
so this part is a climax need to develop
new melodic idea and your own melody
melody and your own rhythm so over here
I start with G & G which is from the chord
from the middle note of the chord and between
when I repeat G I need to add auxiliary note so can be G A G or G F G, so over here I choose A
as an auxiliary note, so after G I skip to E  and add F as a passing note
after E I repeat the E when
I repeat the E then I add D as a passing
note so from E I skip to B and I add passing notes
in between so after that B I repeat the
B then I add auxiliary note
okay so I'm using the same method for
the next bar so you'll notice all
these notes are from the chord E G and B so
that this is to make sure your melody
can match well with the harmony which is
E G B chord the tonic chord of E flat major
okay so I use the same trick and
same method for the rest of the bar
here and let's do a quick revision
you'll notice in bars seven and eight I
do a sequence sequence means when the
previous phrase in bar five starts with a
G which is a middle note of the chord over here
this is a chord five B D F, I also start with the middle note of the chord
which is a D okay I also started a
middle of the chord when the melody in bar
5 end with 'B' your sequence the answer to
this bar will also end with the middle note which
is a F so bar five starts with G and end with B
you can follow the melodic shape
correctly you can see the melodic shape is
going down
you will also start and end with the same
note
okay now let's move on so the same trick
is done for bar 8 you
can see this is a sequence of bar 6 okay
the melodic shape are same so this is
called sequence we've seen melodic shape
okay let's move on to the end in the end
I have G oh no this is not G sorry
this is a bass clef so I start with a B
B and I skip to D then repeat D from D I skip to G, so you can see this is a G B
D so the harmony notes are very strong and in
between the green color notes are just
decoration by auxiliary note and passing note
okay
so the quick revision is done now let's
look at the ending the seventh note must go to
1st note so you need to lead your
melody go to B and C so because this is
in C minor C minor the seventh note is B
leading with B and you must lead it home
to C, C is your tonic note  so we need to
go home here now
once the melody is done we can start to talk
about the rules, what are the rules that you
need to follow for melodic
minor-key okay now let's look at this hand
out that is telling you that you should use
melodic form when you write your melody
okay now they're 5 rules to follow
um in C minor you have three flats B
flat E flat and A flat and when you
write a scale ascending scales need to
raise the 6th and 7th notes so in C
minor the 6th note is A and the 7th note is B
and the A and B have flats in the key-signatures so we raise it and
will become natural okay so that's in
ascending scale but in descending
when a scale goes down your A and B will resume to be flat so let's look at the
first rule rule number one in this
melody you can see that the 7th note is
here and you don't see A you only see
the B here you only have B here so
when the 7th note is alone it's not
accompanied by 6th note okay before this
B and after this B there is no A so we
call this alone
okay this 7th note is alone when 7th note is alone you need to raise it
that's why you see a B natural
okay you need to raise that B natural
next rule number two when the 6th note is
alone, 6th note is alone means you
can see that A is here okay and you
don't see B before and after this this
is a 6th note okay there's no B before
and after A, that means when the A note is
alone
you need to the A note need to stay as
original note which is A flat
Stay as original note which is A flat okay so
the next rule say when the 6th and 7th notes go up together they company
each other so A and B go up together
both must be raised so when the 6th and
7th notes are together next to each
other and in ascending scale in your
melody writing when they go up together
both of them must be raised but when the
6th and 7th notes are down together can see B and A
they go down together okay when they go
down together
both of them must stay as original notes
okay so this is rule number four let's
look at the rule number 5 some students may
asked what if the 7th note B A B
A B keep repeating like this or you
start with A, 6th 7th 6th 7th keep
on moving in this auxiliary movement
then both of them must be raised both
 must be raised and so A B A B A B when
the B and A keep coming back like this
both A and B must be raised
no matter you start with B to A or you start with A to B as long as the A comes back and the B comes
back consecutively both of them must
be raised
okay so let's look at the melody that we
create just now we need to take note of the
note A and B, A is the sixth note B is
the seventh note so let's look for let's
look at the bars 3 and 4 here we look
for A and B so over here you have an A
no, you have a B sorry you have B
here B is a seventh note when this 7th note
is here alone there's no A before and
after this when this B is alone you
don't see A before and after so you need
to raise it
this is according to the rule number one
when 7th note is here alone there's no sixth note
before and after this hey when the B is 
alone you need to raise you need to raise
it
hey so I already put a be natural in next
bar you'll see A here okay the 6th note is
here and you don't see B after before
and after this there's no B before and
after A so that means A, the 6th note here is
alone what will happen if the 6th note is alone let's refer to this
so when the 6th note is alone you must
stay as original note okay so we will leave
it as A flat you dont need to write flat
because it's already in the key-signatures
okay let's move on to bar nine and ten
okay now do you need to accidentals to
the middle line this middle line the
entire line is in E flat major it is
already in major key is already have 3 flats
so this line will stay Orangina you don't
need to add any accidentals okay let's
move on to the last two bars we look for
the sixth and seventh notes so the last 2 bars you see B A B okay
seven six seven this is a repeating passage so 7th to 6th after 6th notes the
7th note comes back again so this is very
much an auxilary movement and according
to rule number five when 7th goes to
6th note and then goes back to 7th note both must
raise this is an auxiliary note movement
so the B must put natural A must put
natural and then B don't need to write
the natural again because within the
same bar your first B already has a
natural so this B already has a natural so
this second B don't need to write no
need accidentals okay so that's it
for the bar 11 let's move on to a bar
12
in bar 12 you see A and B at the end
so this A and B are going up as an
ascending scale so when A and B go up
together with six and seven I'm going up
together both of them must be raised
so when sixth and seventh notes all go up
together both must be raised
so I raise the A and B to become natural
okay lots of students ask me why I cannot use
harmonic form because if you don't
raise the 6th notes and just raise the 7th note okay let's see how you'll
sound like okay but in this case if you
don't raise the A the A note remains
as A flat so you are sound like
this the A and B will have an augmented
second
it will become an augmented second interval
and it gives you an awkward tonality
awkward sound so A has flat and
then B natural you give you an augmented 2nd
an awkward sound so we don't
want to use that is a reason why we dont
want to use harmonic form so let's go back to A
natural the A natural will avoid the
augmented 2nd interval or awkward interval
okay so that's the reason why we use the
melodic form in this music and please
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in irregular phrases so in next video we
going to talk about those given
melody with irregular length and some even have
an upbeat rhythm so it's more
complicated and more difficult ok so I
hope I can see you in my next video
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