Music Composition DUMmIES

If you are weak in the music theory department, we recommend that you read Music Theory For Dummiesby Holly Day and Michael Pilh ...

22 Part I: Basics and Rhythm 06_224212 ch02.qxp 12/19/07 12:24 AM Page 22 ...

Chapter 3 Musical Scrapbooks: Writing on Paper and Screen In This Chapter
Papering and penciling
Capturing music with software ...

Keep a pad and pencil by your bed, too, in case you wake up inspired and need to write down something quick. When composing by h ...

Making your lyrics conform to note positions is simple. You can even extract chord symbols and put them on the printout. Speakin ...

head into music notation, you may not need all of the automatic help that you get from a computer during the early, creative pha ...

Inside these folders you should create a folder for each group of composi- tions that belong to a particular project or client. ...

28 Part I: Basics and Rhythm ...

Chapter 4 Rhythm and Mood In This Chapter
Making music out of time
Deciding on rhythm and tempo
Feeling different rhythms
Va ...

In short, different rhythms convey different moods, and learning how to corner and manipulate those rhythms is the first step to ...

Sorrow Joy Anger Love Hate Compassion Surprise Tenderness Anxiety As we said, there are no right and wrong answers. One ...

If your friend walks at a rate of one step per second and you skip at the same rate, you could call these two rhythms variations ...

The point here is that it can be useful to start a composition by choosing the mood you want the piece of music to convey and ma ...

along and then slipped on a patch of ice, yet managed somehow able to hold on and continue with an unbroken stride. This techniq ...

You don’t even need the melody for the rhythmic phrase in Figure 4-5 to be immediately recognized. In fact, if you knock the fir ...

When you move your music phrase later in the measure, so that the melody starts after the beat, it’s called back phrasing. As yo ...

Syncopation .......................................................................................... Notice in Figure 4-10 how ...

Finding Your Own Rhythmic Phrases .......................................................... Although it’s possible to build you ...

rhythm when it starts in the morning. Maybe your dog barks in a rhyth- mic pattern. Maybe someone is hammering down the street o ...

40 Part I: Basics and Rhythm ...