Do This To Write Better Melodies on Guitar
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- Опубликовано: 25 авг 2024
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Most guitar teachers are teaching about writing melodies this way:
''Find the key of your song, and use the scale of that same key to write your melody. For example, if the key if C Major, create your melody in the C Major scale''.
While this method allows you to play it safe and be certain that you will play all the right notes in your melody, it ends up creating melodies that are not telling a story or not going anywhere.
In this video, I show you my own method, which is to stop relying on the scale too much and start relying on the chords instead!
I will show you examples using the melody of my recent song Salvation as a case study (which you can find here: • Ambient Guitar Looping... )
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This is the Ambient Guitar youtube channel of Canadian multi-instrumentist Antoine Michaud. Through original ambient music, chordal guitar lessons and tips on guitar pedals, Antoine is looking to educate and inspire aspiring ambient musicians to learn everything about the world of ambient guitar and chordal voicings on guitar.
One of the things that led me away from university was the music major students. They knew enough theory to make the most generic sounding songs. The theory seemed to limit them to a rule book and devastated any originality they may once have possessed.
I'm sure if someone were really well versed in music theory it can be a useful tool for composing- it is sad when it becomes a constraint and restricts expression.
As always keep up the good work, still by far the best content creator in this field. No fluff, straight to business, concise, and always useful.
Thanks, Jack, I appreciate that! I once had a ''counterpoint'' class at university. There were so many rules to follow in our assignments. It felt like there was only one possible answer as to where the note could go next. The following class, the teacher would review our music and say that our melodic lines were not very original. He would then give an example of his own, and proceed to explain for an hour why it was ok for him to break 9 of his own rules because these were ''exceptions that worked in this context''. Finally, he would spend another hour explaining all the next rules that we needed to follow for our next assignment. Rinse and repeat for a whole semester.
it is only a constraint until people learn about chromatic alterations
This was the missing link for me. I kept frustrating myself with that "stick to the scale" approach, wondering why nothing good ever comes out of it.
You explain very clearly brother
Good stuff, man! Awesome and practical tutorial on melodies…! Thx!
That’s awesome I really struggled with playing a emotional melody. Now I understand it it’s the mixture of arpeggios and transition to other accords and some filler scale notes to make the transition smooth. Absolutely awesome song btw
Great lesson and what a beautiful song btw thank you.
This was great 👍 thanks . Exactly what I was looking for
Love people who walk a different path
Reminds me of stichmethods arpeggios masterclass. These videos pair together good
Cool! He has a great channel!
This is fantastic. Thank you
Great lesson!
This is awesome! Hey question for you. So I'm writing a song right now that is using both major 7 and major 9 chords. Do you think, theoretically, it would be ok to add a major 9 sus4 chords in between, so that I can also write my melodies with the embellishment of the sus4?
Thank you for your nice videos. Antoine I found this Kontakt library by accident. I think you would like it. It is called " In Session Audio Guitar Swells". Maybe you already knew it. Anyways whenever I see something related to ambient guitar, I remember you and Bill. Thanks again.
This was great man!
Triads are the key!! 😁✌🏻
Good job my friend
What about key changes in a song
I want to make confusing melody rhytmically just like Greg Howe, not necessarily using weird scales, where to find tutorial for that?
i love this songperson-turqouise-waving
What
So chord tones
Good👍
Your guitar sounds really cool, glassy. How is the guitar routing you use? From the guitar do you go directly to the daw or to the amplifier first?
He mics a couple amps (a Suhr and a Vox) with SM57s. Check this video for more: ruclips.net/video/BJ8ETLb8PwY/видео.html
@@KeenanCrow Nice, thankyou so much Keenan😊🙏🏻
How should my sheet music look
Hey, Antonie I’m looking for an amp to buy with my new fender player hsh guitar any recommendations? I seen that you’ve been using the vox ac15 for a while, do you recommend it?
You should be able to hear melodies when playing a progression. Other times, the melody needs to be worked out. It may not match the intended feel of the tune. How it's played may change the melody, too.
Can't you do the opposite and have the chords highlight the melody?
Yes totally! It's just a matter of which one did you write first: chords or melody? Then, you make the other one highlight the first.
do you ever write melodies without the chords?
yes can do that as well! the opposite way by highlighting the melody with chords
Thanks for the Video. But i would never create a melody line over a scale or something. It should come natuarl somehow and of course you have to create and stick to the melody of the chords... but only on scale i dont think it will be more emotional.
What type of guitar do you use?
Looks like a suhr strat to me
Is it me or antoine michaud sounds more as a french name
youre teaching things that only better guitarists would know and they already know it so whos this video for? a beginner cant even make the vibe of this scale your using
Guitarists are so funny, none of you can write songs but pretend to be able to. If you want to know beautiful melodies, learn the violin or piano then. There are far more great composers in classical music. Guitars, played by kids is ok.
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lol wut. tell that to all the famous musicians who play guitars in a band
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