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Is there a musical system for creating single key harmonies on the piano?

Q. For instance hip beats and pop music tracks are pretty much composed of single key harmonies made on keyboards. So i just imagine there must be some system like chord progression for chords for single key harmonies.

A. It's called music theory - learn it and that will teach you the basics of how music is created.

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I've learned piano chords, where do I go from here? How do I put chords together?
Q. I taught myself major, minor, augmented, diminished and 7th chords, but the problem is I don't know what to do next. I would like to play melodies and chord progressions, can someone point me in the right direction?

A. Next step is to listen to lots of music. What you'll find is that chords will just "naturally" fall into place. as stated before the most basic progression is I IV V I ("One" "Four" "Five" "One")

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How to transcribe lyrics to the piano?
Q. I know how to play the piano and have lately wrote some lyrics. But, I need help. How do you transpose lyrics into a piano song. I have picked E Major as my key.

My chord progression is: E - G# - B - A

Could anyone help me, I'm stuck?

A. While there are no rules, there are premises, fundamental ideas on how it works best, which have been written about and are helpful.

Do yourself a very big favor, and purchase a Harvard dictionary of music and music terms, available in a low cost paperback edition. You are clearly working on your own, and if you looked up transpose, for example, you would find it does not at all apply to SETTING text to music.

Also look up Prosody, which is the subject best for you to learn something of if you are to set words to music.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosody
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosody_(linguistics)

Since you are doing this so on your own, finding out what prosody is, as a general concept, will already be a great help in how to think about the problem in front of you.

I am certain there are either articles or books, or a chapter of a book, dedicated to Prosody as it relates to the craft of setting words to music. I leave it to you to research that.

For a good beginning, go through some exercise in setting text to a simple melodic line, without adding chords or any other kind of accompaniment. Setting both words and line in a manner closer to personal daily speech, with pauses (rests) and not trying to fit it into a metric verse format, while avoiding convential pop song formats, will give you that much better an understanding of how to effectively but it into the more conventional metric forms as used in popular song.

I suggest some nursery rhymes or short poems for children. If there is a tune associated with the nursery rhyme, as is often the case, take the text, forget the old tune, and write a new one for it. Setting prose, unrhymed and not metric text, is also a great and informative exercise. Again, concentrate only on words and musical line, without accompaniment.

The direct experiences will give you a much better idea how it works, the exercises should be short, which allows your beginning and ending it quickly so you can go to another for further practice.

Since your project is likely to come out less well and / or take much longer unless you have some prior experience, that series of short exercises is a good preliminary work prior your directly attempting a moderate length pop song, the practice giving you a much better chance for 'success' when you start to work on your song.

At least Prosody will give you some very worthwhile 'generalities,' and help you in understanding how to think about the problem (In one regard, making art is solving problems you have set up for yourself.)

With little or no background or experience, other generalities from the most well-intended contributor will offer you very little in the way of concrete guidance.


Best regards.

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