Advanced Music Theory

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Hey! I am Mark Black and welcome to expertvillage.com and we are going to be talking about advanced theory in song writing. Okay, so what we talked about is the lyric that it needs based on how you speak. It needs to have a balance between prose and poetry, and not a balance, and needs to speak in a consistent language, that lyric has to succeed as a poem. Whether you speak what you are saying directly and we know exactly what you mean or you speak in a covered or less direct way, it needs to be consistent and that basically that your lyric needs to succeed as a poem. Then we talked about your melody that your melody again needs to succeed without lyrics as if another instrument was playing. There need to be tension and resolution in it. And you can do a melody without having tension and resolution. I’m talking about almost everyone does melodies, fairly good. We talked about the little continuum of that over any specific chord, we had the continuum of the one, the first note of the scale of the chord, it was very solid, the third was solid, the fifth is solid, the second and the six were not that solid, but they are okay and then the four and seven are very dissonant and the is if we want our melody to be unusual, we on 6 to 2, the 4 and 7. If we want our melody to be very solid, we would be on 1 to 3 to 5.

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