How to Harmonize a Melody in Part Writing - Basic guide | Four Part Harmony Tutorial #9

[@None_of_your_business666]

Thank you!!!

[@TRHARTAmericanArtist]

Very nice and simple.The other teacher teaches you how to make a clock when all you wanted was the time. Good job sir!

[@DialMMedia]

Thank you very much!

[@willplaymusic1]

I cant believe how underrated your channel is! Thank you so much for all of the lessons :)

[@DialMMedia]

Hey! Thank you so much for all the kind words :) Stoked you have found the lessons helpful!

[@Sunita-iv1hw]

Good explanation. Thanks for that. Just wondering ... why we dont really use chord III or VII. Thanks.

[@DialMMedia]

Hi Sunita. Thanks for watching! Chord iii and vii are relatively complex chords that often contain their own set of rules depending on the music/melody line. The purpose of this video was to provide a starting point to harmonization in our playlist. I certainly hope to expand the playlist with more challenging chord progressions soon! try experimenting with chord iii preceding chord vi. Chord vii is quite dissonant in nature and often needs to resolve.

[@lynnehood9929]

Great stuff. 😊

[@Classical1-17]

Very helpful thank you

[@maxxvidzs]

Best and Simple! Now how do I separate into different SATB CLEFS? Thank you!

[@DialMMedia]

Hey Marc. Thanks for your comment! Are you wanting to view and print out individual parts from Sibelius? I think the function is to select the part from the score and press W - I may be wrong though..

[@maxxvidzs]

@@DialMMedia thanks for your reply! Kindly do a video to separate into different clefs after harmonizing ! 🙏

[@maxxvidzs]

I want to learn how to generate parts as midi file for use in different virtual instrument. Eg. Electric guitar SATB tracks! 🙏

[@johnbendang6451]

Thank you sir...

[@kubithSangma]

How I will know it,s chord 1, 11 ,1V and so on please 🙏🙏

[@curtisfoster4256]

There’s similar motion to an eighth on the IV chord in measure two from the bass and tenors. I just noticed similar motion to fifths i from the first measure to the second measure in the bass and tenor in Byrd’s Ave Verum Corpus. Is similar motion into unisons, fifths, and octaves not that big of deal?

[@DialMMedia]

Hi Curtis. It depends on the progression. When using chord repetition(in measure one) its completely fine. Between two different chords it can be a problem.. at least to the rules of 18th century music. More modern approaches to harmony often ignore these rules.

[@thabisothabzafxntshiliba4682]

it little bit comfusing when it comes to inversions,which note you double on inversions?

[@DialMMedia]

Hey Thabza. For chord ii in 1st inversion it is best to double the 3rd as far as possible. However, you may double the root or 5th if you run into trouble with voice leading. In this example, my tenor voice doubled the root. If I doubled the 3rd in the tenor then I would have had consecutive octaves with the previous chord IV.

[@thabisothabzafxntshiliba4682]

@@DialMMedia which means i can double any note when its comes to 1st or 2nd inversion ?

[@DialMMedia]

@@thabisothabzafxntshiliba4682 For chord ii yes. But for Primary chords I, IV and V you can double root or 5th in 1st/2nd inversion. Never the 3rd. If you want to check these rules, we have a video for both 1st and 2nd inversions. Check the harmony tutorial Playlist in the description 😀

[@OzzieWozzieOriginal]

couldnt figure it out except 1 4 5

[@DialMMedia]

Hey Ozzie Wozzie. Thanks for checking out the vid. Can you elaborate on your question please? And we should be able to help!

[@OzzieWozzieOriginal]

@@DialMMedia It OK sir, you one of best teacher in youtube, I am most unqualified students, my old ears can hear only 1, 4, and 5 chords these days as I started listening cheap country music in my early days, NOW my ears cannot even decipher the chords iib and vi in your composition. So its OK, from now on, I will simply relax infront of my PC and listen to whatever music that comes out from the net.

[@DialMMedia]

Its never too late to start! We have an ear training tutorial series that we are going to start soon. That should provide great understanding!

[@dougp2917]

B....Bb.

[@ugajin7348]

"repetition"

[@alicaramba7680]

Too bad instead of harmonizing notes you actually wrote a chord progression.

[@pjbpiano]

Harmonzing the notes by themselves is called Modal counterpoint. And that is not what he is using here. He is using Tonal counterpoint which uses chord progressions to generate the pool of notes you can harmonize from.

[@alicaramba7680]

Nope, he simply wrote chord progression containing all given notes. This has nothing to do with harmonization of melody less with counterpoint.@@pjbpiano

[@pjbpiano]

@@alicaramba7680, that is how tonal voice leading works. And it is completely based on very familiar contrapuntal motions that have been figured ahead of time simply because these things are based on chord progressions in a key. This is very different from modal counterpoint where you start out composing melodies for each voices based on the rules of counterpoint without actual chord progressions determining the direction of your melodies.