This One Melody Tip Will Make Your Melodies GREAT

People interested in melodies don’t need such nervous introductions 🥱
Relacx please you are not a conductor

Loved this! Definitely going to try this in my next songwriting session
I really like to start from bar 4 and land on the 1 as a way to shift the emphasis of my lyrics!

Dam you are a very good and passionate teacher I wish I could spend 6 months learning from you personally. I have to tell you I used this on a song that I been playing with for years ,I just couldn't fig. out what was wrong with it. (big change wow). But you have to be careful not to use it to much it can become addictive. Thank you

Editing is good but honestly its a little over the top

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1) use syncopation to bring fluidity to the melody and be less harsh / more softh.
Full on beat sounds more imperative / military chant.

2) after the strong beat. "More relaxed started"
Before anticipation / hurry.

3) use the variety to change the type of emphasys, and bring more moviment to the song.

Ex fire works by katty perry, circule post malone.

This Channel is very useful. Thanx.

😮wow youre voice is beautiful 😍 as you are too ❤ wow im blown away ❤

The first one grooves more and feels better to me. It reminds me of Chip n Dale Rescue Rangers.

Thank you Keppie. It sounds better like some 2010s mainstream pop melodies

I find melodies ridiculously easy, but I 100% rely on intuition. It's the same reason I suck at lyrics, because I over think it to the point of being brain-dead. Everybody knows what sounds good, some are too paralyzed with fear and doubt to get there.

Anyway, rules are programmable. Hopefully emotion is not (perhaps it's just more complex...). It's the only thing that seemingly separates us from AI music.

Lovely !

Bing Crosby attributed his success to his phrasing, which he said he learned from Louis Armstrong … good on you for bringing this to the forefront … you’re doing great things.

Amazing song! Thanks.

Sounded exactly the same to me.

Very well demonstrated <3

Watching Axl do this live at first I thought he was just mixing it up but then also it would have the advantage of giving more time to prepare his breath. A dual usage.

OMG. Tom Perry. Don’t do me like that.

good example of this recently would be Alex Turner, his melodies have very syncopated and catchy rhythms

Makes the difference between what you might hear in coffee shop and what might hear on the radio

Absolutely golden insight. Shed light on so many questions I've had for so long. Cheers!

Sweet singing, nice and full.

Perfect❤

it seems to me, not only that controlling the exact placement of words on strong or weak stresses, or beats within the meter give a particular effect. i've read in some books that to give emphasis to words of the lyric, is necessary even tonal activity, with melodic and harmonic progression. Tonally adjoined progression, produces one effect; complex tonal movement, such as when melody is fairly stable and harmony is fairly unstable, produces another effect.

I’m a vocal coach. This topic is something I spend so much time on with my students. Starting the vocal either a beat early or a beat late, can really push and pull a song. To me, it’s the difference between good and great singers.

Its more phrasing than melody

Fantastic video. Thank you.

Merci for your tips. It's above my pay grade for now, but as I learn the key and fret board and practice, I like to keep this in mind. I'm starting after 65 years old and joking my whole life that I was born with two left ears.

Liking this 🎸

Great lesson (as always)! One of my favourite examples is S&G's 'Bridge over Troubled Water' where in the verse each line it starts 'late' on the 2, but the chorus switches to starting on beat 1 for impact.

aside from accent structure's "body language" which is an interesting way of putting it, I like the phrase "downbeat headroom." Accenting a melody on the downbeat is very strident. it's like a splash of cold water in the face. "cause this is THRILLER" "STRUMMING MY PAIN with his finger" etc. In both of those examples, the verse in Thriller starts on the and of 3! "it's close to midnight." "you start to scream" has a long pickup and accents on the "a" of 4. There is so many dynamics in the accent structure, that there is still oodles of headroom left when that big accent on 1 "THRILLER" comes in. hits you like a truck. Same as "killing me softly." on the verse "I heard you sang a new song" it's accented on beat 2, and other weak "ands." There is no downbeat accent until you get to the chorus "STRUMMING MY PAIN." again, hits like a truck.

there is a DISEASE these days of singer-songwriters spamming accents on every downbeat. Every 2 bars. New chord, NEW phrase, new chord, NEW phrase, all on beat 1. By the time you try to take a big beat 1 swing in the chorus, it already feels like i've been bludgeoned to death with a hammer. phrasing is an extremely important and robust topic andthis video only scratches the surface!

Excellent video!! I have done this in some of my previous songs. But i've never been really aware of it - or done it deliberately!! It's more a case of a word or 2 that didn't sound right - & the emphasis had to be shifted!!

Thank thank you so much

Damn. I did not know Alfred E. Neuman had such a talented sister.

Great tip Keppie, your teaching is tremendous!! Thank you.

Fascinating…. So if rhythmic variation among sections is a key principle, what are the principles that connect the melodies of various sections within a song? i.e. why does a particular chorus fit better with a verse melody than any other random chorus that is rhythmically different?

I love your channel! This is so practical and it really makes a difference. Thank you very much!

Sweet! Thanks! You're awesome!

A perfect example is The Searchers' Needles And Pins, in which the lyric starts on the 2nd beat and continues this way, (even through the Bridge) throughout the song.

Hey good job! I really enjoyed your lesson. I used to call "phrasing" the Willie Nelson effect. Now I know what to call it, and why it works!

Great tip which I do by accident as I'm often concentrating on the guitar chord changes then sing on the down beat. Thx for sharing a cool song too!!

Hmmm… I like 1st one more…😮

Great lesson and lovely singing!

Excellent advise. Thank you!

Your consideration videos are wonderfully informative and inspiring! Thanks from northern Nevada.

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