Improvising a Melody Over a Chord Scheme - Music Theory

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[@patrickmerrick5880]

A well appreciated video. It can get very confusing the chord melody idea. Your talk has clarified the subject well. Though sometimes I can only find an interesting chord progression by improvising a melody. I guess it's a hand in glove subject. As to improvise a melody I would depend on a chord basis only if just a drone chord.

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Hand in glove is exactly right.

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Very interesting. Very well explained. Thanks.

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[@davidwhite2949]

Using dotted crotchets and then straight crochets: it’s sort of like alternating swing with straight rhythm A nice mix of textures

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Not quite but I see what you’re getting at.

[@peterbernhard7415]

Very well-done introduction to the essentials. "In years to come ... " - come back to this root piece of teaching. Btw first time I was able to understand the meaning of "diminished" chord (in C major the b scale, in fact is a minor, however, what counts is the quint note being "diminished", it must be lowered. That's a "math tour" to me). I like the restriction to those two basic concepts, passing notes and auxiliary, neighbouring notes. Btw, often I have come across good melodies - that turned out "ear-worms" where it is hard to find some "passing note" to some other chord that should be a chorus after what is pre-chorus. How's that? Spontaneously, inspired by this video, I think about an ear-worm that "thinks twice" and is all-right, already - two concepts in one, the notes appear and function and passing and neighbouring at the same time. I do not get to get out of this place. It's good!

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Thought at one point you were going to break into the “Eastenders” theme Gareth! 😂😂

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[@ThomsenTower]

Question from an amateur who’s been enjoying your videos for years now. Isn’t there also some sort of rule that on certain beats (is that the term?) it is better to have chord tones? Thank you for your videos!

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Thank you. Not really about certain beats.

[@johnmac8084]

@@MusicMattersGB Perhaps ThomsenTower means accented and unaccented passing notes? I know you've done videos about that Gareth.

[@monicaconsigliereLavieenfleur]

If I had a piano teacher like you as a teenager I would have not dropped the piano. Luckily in the last 10 years I started piano again after 3 years of Musicology. I have a question . In more advanced chords, let's say I am stil in the key og C major and I want t improvise on a A13 9b and I want to use a mixolydian scale, my question is: do I do a mixolydian in the key of C or A? I am bit cofused about that. I am trying to learn to improvise in jazz.

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That’s most kind. It all depends on context of chord function. If you’re using an A13b9 in C major it could well be functioning as a secondary dominant in D minor.

[@zalphoenix8858]

Very good explanation. I wish he wouldn’t sing with chords .. sorry but it’s distracting

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Ah. I did that because people have previously requested it!