3 great melodic tools to develop strong melodies
Melody is the most important thing that music has.
If you play a beautiful melody people will listen.
Composers use many hours composing a tune to get it right.
In improvised music you need to be able to come up with the beautiful melody on the spot.
In this tutorial
Why is it important to play a beautiful melody?
What is a beautiful melody?
What do you need to know?
Repetition is great
Question / answer
Can you sing it?
Show, play and analyse a short solo on “There will never be another you ” using melodic playing.
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