Posts Tagged ‘beat’
Sure, you could look up commonly-used chord progressions if you want, but that won’t always work. Plus, part of the fun is in coming up with something original. So you need to rely on your own ears. Just listen carefully to what you’ve written, over and over again. If the sequence of chords you’ve chosen [...]
Categories: Composing
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Rhythm and meter are an important aspect of music. You could have a good sequence of notes that would make for a nice-sounding melody, but without the appropriate duration of note values the melody wouldn’t go anywhere. Speaking of which, the rhythm in “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring” by Bach consists of many triplets. Triplets [...]
Categories: Composing
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