All language subtitles for How to write strong melodies (Music Production Tutorial) (inglese_ASR)

welcome back to another music production

tutorial this time it's all about

melodies for many people writing

melodies is a bit of a mystery

especially in the beginning you never

know from where to pick the right notes

you make some random experiments and

sometimes it's okay and sometimes not so

much

however I want to show you a more

structured way it's quite common among

songwriters and it will help you to

write better melodies quicker and more

reliably than before here we go

basically it's pretty easy instead of

going from note to note we take a step

back and look at the melody from a

different perspective we need to look at

two different things

first the melodic rhythm the melodic

rhythm consists of the position the

length and the velocity of the notes so

it's like a drum rhythm but with notes

and secondly we have the melodic shape

the shape will tell us how high or low

the note should be played at a certain

position when we combine these two

things we get a new powerful way to

create nice melodies and now I will show

you how you can do that in your own

productions I will use sundog for that

Sonic is a standalone software it is

connected to my door with a virtual midi

cable so sonic will send midi notes to

the door and the door will play them

back for this tutorial I created a

simple minimal techno track

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as you hear my track is quite basic just

a pet a bassline and some drums now

let's take a look at the melody

instrument sun lock is basically built

in such a way that melodic rhythm and

melodic shape are two separate things

first I click on fill editor with basic

sequence and now you see a red line that

is identical to the melodic shape and

down here we have the melodic rhythm

pattern I press play

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as you see the red line gives you the

note pitch and the bottom field gives

you the rhythm okay let's take a look at

the basics each melody consists of

simpler components and I will show you

the six basic components that you can

use to build nice melodies the first one

is the static line it's simply the same

note on and on you already heard an

example before so I won't get into

detail here the second one is the

ascending line it simply goes up

let's listen

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now maybe you wonder where the notes

come from in Sandrock you simply pick a

scale over here I chose my no for

example and then son lock will

automatically use these scale notes for

the melodic shape this way you always

say harmonic because other notes won't

get used at all you can also play around

with the steepness of the line steep

lines are quite dynamic and expressive

choose a flat angle if you need less

action

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the next basic shape is the descending

line the next one up and down and of

course down and up

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you can combine these basic shapes to

create more complex phrases for example

I go up and down and up again and then

stay on a note

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as you can see these basic shapes offer

you a lot of flexibility of course my

example was quite short in reality

melodies are usually longer let's change

the length from two bars to four bars

some rock will create a copy for us and

put it on the second half of the field I

will use this copy to show you another

technique that is create for longer

melodies this technique is called

call-and-response

the idea is simple you divide the field

and two parts the first part is the call

and the second part is the answer or

response the second part can be a

variation of the first part or anything

else that gives your listener or feeling

of resolution it is important that the

first part feels like something

unresolved like something that you want

to complete somehow for example I will

keep this section here the same but then

I will end the second part with a

downward movement

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I used a nice little trick here the

strong yellow line is the root note of

the scale a c-sharp this note should be

the most important note for your

melodies as well because your listeners

will need to have her home note when

your listeners can feel the home note

they can also feel when you leave home

and when you return home this is why

many melodies start on the root note

and/or come back to it in the end okay I

will show you another example and I will

also show you some other tricks how we

can use the sundog editor more

efficiently

first let's key lines by pressing the

cross and now we draw a simple short

line so far we always worked in the draw

mode but sundog contains another mode

the edit mode you can switch between

draw and edit with these icons and you

can also press B on the keyboard for

that in edit mode you can select lines

with your mouse you can use keyboard

shortcuts like copy and paste as usual

but you can also hold down command on

Mac or ctrl on Windows and then drag a

line with your mouse this will create an

instant copy I do this a second time and

now I will switch back to draw mode and

change the line a bit I go back in edit

mode and create another copy let's

listen

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as you can hear this is another example

for a simple call-and-response melody

it's like leaving home leaving home

coming back coming back and another tip

you can hold down shift and then select

multiple lines and you can also move

selected lines with the arrow keys ok

when you are happy with your melodies

you can export them as a MIDI file

simply hold down your mouse on the media

icon here and then drag it to your door

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if you want to know more about different

sound or techniques you can click on

help QuickStart help you can learn more

about the editor like using multiple

rhythms by clicking on the advanced

unlock link bye for now have a great

time