How to Harmonize Repeated Notes - Music Composition

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Music Matters

Music Matters

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@MusicMattersGB
@MusicMattersGB 2 жыл бұрын
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@MarketGarden87
@MarketGarden87 Жыл бұрын
Harmonizing repeated notes is one of my favorite things to do, or attempt to do. There’s nothing like free flowing melody and harmony underneath a pedal tone or repeated notes 🤤
@MusicMattersGB
@MusicMattersGB Жыл бұрын
Absolutely
@kisudisu
@kisudisu Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for making these incredible, informative videos and for presenting them in a manner that is very easy to understand!
@AdelPianoLessons
@AdelPianoLessons Жыл бұрын
Love how you sing with the chords. Very interesting ideas with harmonizing those similar repeated notes.
@MusicMattersGB
@MusicMattersGB Жыл бұрын
Glad it’s helpful.
@stephenbashforth8257
@stephenbashforth8257 Жыл бұрын
Very Helpful! the 4-2-3 suspension / decorated suspension is something I'd not come across before - so thank you.
@MusicMattersGB
@MusicMattersGB Жыл бұрын
It’s useful
@jarodvmusic
@jarodvmusic Жыл бұрын
Another great video! Even when I feel like I know something I still watch you explain it and always learn something, plus a lot of times a new perspective on things. I think we both share a love for suspensions. I was very happy to see you explain the decorated suspension you mentioned in a previous video. Watching you harmonize the alto and tenor in about a minute was impressive! I would love to know what is going through your head while you do that. You always have very helpful tricks and ways of thinking. I would also love to hear why chord III in Major is so weak in the hierarchy. I have been taught that it is a fairly ambiguous chord that can have Subdominant function but sometimes Tonic function.
@MusicMattersGB
@MusicMattersGB Жыл бұрын
That’s kind. iii is less frequently used than most other chords but yes, it can progress well to IV but also to vi.
@ClaudiaGomezMusic
@ClaudiaGomezMusic Жыл бұрын
Just a wonderful and easy way to explain complex things. A master! Thank you
@MusicMattersGB
@MusicMattersGB Жыл бұрын
A pleasure. Much more at www.mmcourses.co.uk
@chrismunroe8015
@chrismunroe8015 Жыл бұрын
I have been analysing a variety of music genres, and I'm discovering music using vague keys -- chord six starting progression. Personally, I'm experimenting with this because it's more interesting. It's funny, though, that you said there's nothing wrong with chord three but couldn't bring yourself to use it 😂. What I've recently learned is that there is freedom in music. Do what you want! Be free. Nuts to rules! Create, explore, have fun!
@MusicMattersGB
@MusicMattersGB Жыл бұрын
😀
@abagatelle
@abagatelle Жыл бұрын
Gareth, you're obviously a mind reader! Brilliant stuff, thanks very much 😊
@MusicMattersGB
@MusicMattersGB Жыл бұрын
You’re too kind!
@TechnoRaabe
@TechnoRaabe Жыл бұрын
Congrats to 200k subs! 🎉❤
@BernhardElsner
@BernhardElsner Жыл бұрын
Thank you very much for this video. By the way, your tenor voice leading is an example where in the final cadence the leading note b does not go to c, and it works very well. A very famous example of repeated notes in the meoldy is the beginning of the second movement of Beethoven's symphony no.7.
@MusicMattersGB
@MusicMattersGB Жыл бұрын
Absolutely re the B. Beethoven 7 is a good example.
@DentelloRomanticComposer1820s
@DentelloRomanticComposer1820s Жыл бұрын
It is so good to watch those videos, I have learned so many thing!! Thank you so much, Mr. G. Green
@MusicMattersGB
@MusicMattersGB Жыл бұрын
A pleasure. Lots more at www.mmcourses.co.uk
@leonhardeuler6811
@leonhardeuler6811 Жыл бұрын
Bachs harmonization and variations of Dies sind die heilgen zehn Gebot (bwv 298, 635, 678, 679) are a very good example of this.
@superblondeDotOrg
@superblondeDotOrg Жыл бұрын
Bach certainly never composed using roman numerals or tonal theory, which is a false theory of music. I believe Bach always harmonized using the Bass line (filling notes in upwards, not starting with melody line downwards)... if it happens to turn out that his inner voices or top voice is the same note and provides such an example, then that is a secondary result..
@superblondeDotOrg
@superblondeDotOrg Жыл бұрын
In fact the solution shown in this video is Bach's typical starting bass line, {1}-{7}-{1}-{1} (using { }'s to notate as scale degrees)
@MusicMattersGB
@MusicMattersGB Жыл бұрын
In the Chorales Bach was harmonising the inherited Lutheran melodies but the figured bass approach from the bottom up is certainly the Baroque approach. Baroque composers thought figured bass rather than Roman Numerals but the latter is a very useful way for us to understand what is going on.
@MusicMattersGB
@MusicMattersGB Жыл бұрын
😀
@jayducharme
@jayducharme Жыл бұрын
Watching you work through these lessons is a delight. BTW, those G notes you started off with form the opening of the old hymn "Onward, Christian Soldiers" (usually with a little decoration in the second measure). Your end result is much more musically interesting.
@MusicMattersGB
@MusicMattersGB Жыл бұрын
That’s most kind.
@martinbennett2228
@martinbennett2228 Жыл бұрын
It is really good how you achieve the result with simple related chords. At first sight I assumed you would be adding some more distant chords such as a secondary dominant seventh, but you show it is not necessary to risk it sounding awkward by trying to force the harmony this way.
@MusicMattersGB
@MusicMattersGB Жыл бұрын
Often simple is best.
@martinbennett2228
@martinbennett2228 Жыл бұрын
@@MusicMattersGB In your hands, it seems straight forward, but actually not so easy to achieve. Nonetheless your video does help make it that little bit easier.
@MusicMattersGB
@MusicMattersGB Жыл бұрын
Glad it’s helpful.
@ivanbosnich2909
@ivanbosnich2909 Жыл бұрын
Excellent video. Thank you Gareth
@MusicMattersGB
@MusicMattersGB Жыл бұрын
A pleasure. Much more at www.mmcourses.co.uk
@NomeDeArte
@NomeDeArte Жыл бұрын
Love this videos, are really inspiring! Thank you so much for sharing, best regards from Argentina!
@MusicMattersGB
@MusicMattersGB Жыл бұрын
It’s a pleasure
@andrewmcconville1848
@andrewmcconville1848 Жыл бұрын
I will never think of 6 g notes in the same boring way again. Txs
@MusicMattersGB
@MusicMattersGB Жыл бұрын
😀
@EuanLee
@EuanLee Жыл бұрын
Very useful and thought provoking video!
@MusicMattersGB
@MusicMattersGB Жыл бұрын
Glad it’s helpful. Much more at www.mmcourses.co.uk
@TheOldgeezah
@TheOldgeezah Жыл бұрын
Reminds me of that fine hymn Praise my soul the King of Heaven. The idea of a falling sequence of chords and bass under a series of identical notes appeals to me. It gives a nice forward movement. I don't know if I'm odd but when I compose a piece I rarely have just a string of notes as a melody to begin with. I usually have an idea of the initial melody, some form of harmony and a bass line in mind before entering a note into my computer. It just seems to work for me.
@MusicMattersGB
@MusicMattersGB Жыл бұрын
That’s great.
@timdovecool7202
@timdovecool7202 Жыл бұрын
Wao! What a lesson... thanks alot sir.Very informative.
@MusicMattersGB
@MusicMattersGB Жыл бұрын
A pleasure. Much more at www.mmcourses.co.uk
@josephinebrown6631
@josephinebrown6631 Жыл бұрын
Thank you kindly🤍
@MusicMattersGB
@MusicMattersGB Жыл бұрын
A pleasure
@dan27music
@dan27music Жыл бұрын
Thank you for another interesting lesson.
@MusicMattersGB
@MusicMattersGB Жыл бұрын
A pleasure. Much more at www.mmcourses.co.uk
@YouDoTheShoot
@YouDoTheShoot Жыл бұрын
love these harmony vids man ...cheers
@MusicMattersGB
@MusicMattersGB Жыл бұрын
A pleasure. Lots more at www.mmcourses.co.uk
@Moeen_Music
@Moeen_Music Жыл бұрын
Thanks a lot, as an idea, can you please do a same video with the repeated notes in bass part? Should be fun :))
@MusicMattersGB
@MusicMattersGB Жыл бұрын
Okay
@P3Drocket
@P3Drocket Жыл бұрын
Great video, thx 🎶
@MusicMattersGB
@MusicMattersGB Жыл бұрын
A pleasure. See www.mmcourses.co.uk for much more.
@delituskivike2471
@delituskivike2471 Жыл бұрын
Thanks Sir,good you try harmony using chromatics with same reapited bars
@MusicMattersGB
@MusicMattersGB Жыл бұрын
😀
@flaviobarbosa6064
@flaviobarbosa6064 Жыл бұрын
You should listen “Samba de uma nota só”, one-note samba. It’s a bossa nova song, that more than six note repetition, and it is simply astounding!!!!
@MusicMattersGB
@MusicMattersGB Жыл бұрын
Agreed
@enriquematiasreimermillan5120
@enriquematiasreimermillan5120 Жыл бұрын
Brilliant!
@MusicMattersGB
@MusicMattersGB Жыл бұрын
A pleasure. Much more at www.mmcourses.co.uk
@NomeDeArte
@NomeDeArte Жыл бұрын
In sound engineering there's a say that goes "mixes are not finished, but abandoned", meaning that there is a point when the more you put, kind diminish the final product, not add it more quality. Can you maybe talk about the same idea with harmony? Because sometimes I feel that I can adding more passing notes, and PSR, and extensions, etc, but not necessarly I'm making the harmony works better, on the contrary, kinda muddy my original idea. Hope you get what I mean, and sorry if already there is a video about that on the channel. Just an idea, best wishes!
@MusicMattersGB
@MusicMattersGB Жыл бұрын
Good idea. Will plan something on those lines.
@telaim
@telaim Жыл бұрын
Thank you very interesting as usual !! Just a question: In the second bar, why the the B doesn't resolve on the C?
@MusicMattersGB
@MusicMattersGB Жыл бұрын
The B doesn’t particularly need to resolve to the C
@alanhowell3646
@alanhowell3646 9 ай бұрын
Can I ask you to explain how you harmonise notes that are not in the chord such as approach notes, enclosure, chromatic passing notes etc.
@MusicMattersGB
@MusicMattersGB 9 ай бұрын
Notes are either harmony notes/ chord tones or inessential notes/ non-chord tones. The former belong to chords; the latter don’t.
@alanhowell3646
@alanhowell3646 9 ай бұрын
Yes I understand that but want to know methods of harmonising non-chord tones@@MusicMattersGB
@MusicMattersGB
@MusicMattersGB 9 ай бұрын
@alanhowell3646 As soon as you harmonise a non-chord tone it’s no longer a non-chord tone.
@lmrock
@lmrock Жыл бұрын
If you have lyrics to sing. Harmonize it with the solfege of the vowel sounds with voice leading. I think that's why it's called voice leading.
@MusicMattersGB
@MusicMattersGB Жыл бұрын
😀
@isaacshaw1596
@isaacshaw1596 Жыл бұрын
Do you mind me asking what's happened to composer insights? Is it being left as is?
@MusicMattersGB
@MusicMattersGB Жыл бұрын
There is more recorded, we’ve just got to finish the editing on them.
@MrGul
@MrGul Жыл бұрын
How come you don't resolve the B in the tenor voice to a C (the 3rd of the V chord to the 1st of the I chord) instead of ending like this on a I chord in root position with a doubled fifth?
@MusicMattersGB
@MusicMattersGB Жыл бұрын
There’s no particular reason for the B to resolve to C and a chord with a doubled 5th is perfectly acceptable.
@MrGul
@MrGul Жыл бұрын
@@MusicMattersGB Thanks for answering! My former music school taught us that the 3rd of a V chord should resolve to the 1st of a I chord even if the V chord doesn't have a 7th, and that doubling the root is the preferred option (unless there's an inversion) so that's why I wondered.
@MusicMattersGB
@MusicMattersGB Жыл бұрын
It’s often what happens but it doesn’t have to.
@vincentedelmond5404
@vincentedelmond5404 Жыл бұрын
repeated notes goes the tonic half note or one note down try the moonlight of Beethoven or feeling nothing more than feeling or something in the way of George Harrison see the repeated chords progression
@MusicMattersGB
@MusicMattersGB Жыл бұрын
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@jakubr4634
@jakubr4634 Жыл бұрын
I understand it is doable when the repeating note is a fifth, but I tried to do it when it was a tonic and it gets harder (the plagal cadence can or has to be used). When the repeating tone is a third it looks almost impossible though.
@MusicMattersGB
@MusicMattersGB Жыл бұрын
There’s another video coming out soon focused on repeated tonics.
@ivanignacio2353
@ivanignacio2353 Жыл бұрын
So we write music in 4 real parts. What happens when we have more than 4 voices ? I know that exists duplication voices but, are there other kinds?
@alexiusa.pereira9956
@alexiusa.pereira9956 Жыл бұрын
I would use add 6, 7, maj7 and 11…there are progressions that can use these.
@MusicMattersGB
@MusicMattersGB Жыл бұрын
See our video on writing in 5 parts. Duplication of notes and/ or extended chords.
@MusicMattersGB
@MusicMattersGB Жыл бұрын
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@milovargas1817
@milovargas1817 Жыл бұрын
One Note Samba by Tom Jobim is a good example.
@MusicMattersGB
@MusicMattersGB Жыл бұрын
Absolutely
@ronwhitehead3824
@ronwhitehead3824 Жыл бұрын
The chord now change the tune.
@MusicMattersGB
@MusicMattersGB Жыл бұрын
Amazing isn’t it?
@davidmbachu8239
@davidmbachu8239 Жыл бұрын
It almost like Bach's air in G piece
@MusicMattersGB
@MusicMattersGB Жыл бұрын
😀
@xavieroudin2791
@xavieroudin2791 Жыл бұрын
it looks to be an old video... anyway, thank you Sir
@MusicMattersGB
@MusicMattersGB Жыл бұрын
This is a very new video
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