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Composition & Improvisation: Case Study: Part 3 of 24: Melodic Analysis

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A good Melody is never some haphazard combination of notes…

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2011-06-29 Composition & Improvisation, Music Theory

Composition & Improvisation: Case Study: Part 2 of 24: Reading the Lead Sheet

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There’s a lot more to understanding and interpreting a Lead Sheet than just decoding the dots…

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2011-06-29 Composition & Improvisation, Music Theory

Transposition: The Musical Way to Transpose a Melody

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A prerequisite to Transposing a Melody like a musician is to conceive of and hear the melody in meaningful musical terms…

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2011-05-01 Transposition

Chords: Melody & Harmony

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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…

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2011-03-01 Chords
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