A good Melody is never some haphazard combination of notes…
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There’s a lot more to understanding and interpreting a Lead Sheet than just decoding the dots…
A prerequisite to Transposing a Melody like a musician is to conceive of and hear the melody in meaningful musical terms…
Here are three famous musical examples that illustrate that melody is harmony and harmony is melody…. and that scales and chords are really two complementary views of the same musical stuff…