Lyric, Melody, Harmony: Intermediate Music Theory

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Hi! I’m Mark Black and welcome to expertvillage.com. We’re going to talk about intermediate theory concepts. We’re going to start with talking about the basic song writing ideas. Now, this is song writing as appose to composition, so we’re not talking about instrumental composition. I just want to mention briefly that when you write a song there’s 3 basic areas. There’s the lyric, there’s the melody, and there’s harmony, which harmony is the chorus the song is based on. The melody is the most important line, but with that regard to weather it has words or not. So if I said da da da da da da da. That’s the melody but there’s not lyric. That’s Somewhere over the rainbow. We don’t know if I’m saying I love sandwiches often. We don’t know what I’m talking about but we can observe that melody, decide if we like it or don’t like it. Okay, so the lyric should be able to exist as a poem that we can read it, and without reference to the music, say that is an interesting or unique or weird or very direct or whatever. The melody, like I said existing without a lyric, and the way to observe that or to critique it is to either play it or hear it yourself done by a trumpet or another instrument. Would that be pretty or attractive or aggressive with those kinds of things?

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