Compound Melodies for Better Bebop

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Pianist, educator, and amateur NBA referee, Jeremy Siskind describes how Charlie Parker and other bebop musicians utilize the technique of "Compound Melody" in order to create interesting, flowing, connected melodies.

[@TonyWinston]

Always great teacher.

[@JeremySiskind]

No you are! 5x better at least in terms of subscriber numbers 😂

[@richardsprince6980]

@@JeremySiskind He's just been doing it longer.

[@robinbalean958]

Thanks for this lesson: this is a really interesting concept. I bought your package of four books a few weeks back and am having a lot of fun with them. A compound number is a number that is not prime.

[@remicou8420]

you’re thinking of composite numbers, and while this is an ok intuition about composite numbers, it is slightly wrong as 1 is neither prime nor composite. composite numbers, more rigorously defined are natural numbers with at least one divisor other than 1 and itself.

[@robinbalean958]

@@remicou8420 Yes, you are right. Composite is correct, but compound is the word of the day, so I repurposed it. By the way, 1 was considered to be prime by some mathematicians even into the early 20th century.

[@walkercatenaccio]

Very cool ideas.

[@JeremySiskind]

Many thanks, Walker. Happy practicing!

[@alexanthony62]

Fantastic lesson! So interesting. Are you thinking mainly chord tones for your compound melodies?

[@JeremySiskind]

I think compound melodies can use the scales associated with the chords, but they should probably end up on chord tones.

[@richardsprince6980]

Suggestion: get a boom mic stand.

[@JeremySiskind]

Thanks, Richard.

[@richardsprince6980]

@@JeremySiskind I imagine you don’t want to have to mix or edit, but the piano would sound much better close mic’d. It usually sounds somewhat distant.
Then you could mic yourself with a lavelier mic, and put both into a small mixer.
I suppose if you really wanted to up those production values, you could light yourself better, too. Lighting also makes a big difference in video quality.

[@donm3986]

Compound number: 5 feet and 2 inches; or 5 lbs and 2 ounces; or 1 pickup note and 32 bars.

[@flober1970]

Bye Bye blackbird ….

[@JeremySiskind]

Thanks for watching, Flober!