Q. I know chords but who do i make a melody. Like i know by ear but how do i know what i can and cant press
A. Choose whatever key you want to compose your melody in. C is usually the easiest, since it's like a car with good wheels: It has no sharps or flats.
Then get a tape recorder, and sing your melody into the recorder, and when you're done, play back what you've sung, and then play the same notes on the piano, and there you are.
It's as easy as 10 - 20 - 30.
When you're done, you'll know why composers like to get paid for their work.
Best wishes,
How do you find out the piano chord name of a piano chord you never played before?
Q. maybe u no a interweb site
A. I know a quick way to answer your question,
but it will require a small arts and crafts project on your part.
You need:
several sheets of cardboard or poster board
a pencil
a felt marker
a compass
a ruler
a protractor
a copper pin fastener
a pair of scissors.
Here's what you do:
1. With the compass, draw a circle on one sheet of cardboard or posterboard.
2. With the protractor and pencil, divide that circle into 12 slices of 30 degrees each.
3. With the scissors, cut the circle out.
4. With the felt marker, label those slices on the edge as C, G, d, A, E, B, F#, C#, Ab, Eb, Bb, F.
You have now finished making the Circle of Fifths.
5. Cut out another circle the same size as the Circle of Fifths.
Cut out peepholes for C, G, and E.
Draw an arrow pointing to the C.
With the felt marker, label this as "major."
6. Flip the major wheel over and try laying it on the Circle of Fifths.
You should be able to adjust it so that you see C, G, and Eb.
On this side also, draw an arrow pointing to the C.
Label this side "minor."
7. Make another wheel like the major wheel, only this time, cut another peephole for the Bb.
Again, draw an arrow pointing to the C.
Label this one "seventh."
8. For "diminished seventh," cut out peepholes for C, Eb, F#, and A, but don't draw any arrows.
This same chord can go all four ways.
9. For "augmented," the peepholes are at C, E, G#.
This chord can go all three ways.
To find a major chord, put the major wheel on top of the Circle of Fiths, fasten in the middle with the copper pin, and rotate.
Whatever the arrow is pointing to is the name of the major chord.
The same procedure serves for all the other chords.
For French sixths, the peepholes are at Ab, C, D, and F#.
For Italian sixths, the peepholes are at Ab, C, and F#.
For German sixths, you can use the wheel for sevenths.
But that's getting into advanced theory.
how to give the background music to song?
Q. I've a music band we have composed many song but still confused how to set the music for it.
A. I'm a songwriter and I get confused sometimes too. After reading your question and explanation I'm guessing that you have a melody and words but no music? That's got to be it, right?
Ok, here's what I do. I have a melody running around in my head but, I don't know how to play it yet on either the keyboard or the guitar. So, in my case, it's always been easier for me to sit down at the keyboard and sing or hum the song and try to find the notes on the keyboard that make up that melody. Once you have that figured out, all you really have is just the melody. That's what the singer is going to do. You still need the background music.
The background music has to do with the chord progression for the song. I don't know the chord progression yet but, I have the melody down and from the melody, I know what key it is in. This is where a good book on music theory helps a lot.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0470615141/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_1?pf_rd_p=486539851&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=0764554042&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=1YE3F7BK1G1SAY4S83E7 - http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Idiots-Guide-Music-Theory/dp/1592574378/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1285894846&sr=1-1 - http://www.amazon.com/Music-Theory-Dummies-Michael-Pilhofer/dp/0764578383/ref=sr_1_8?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1285894879&sr=1-8 - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1592572111/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_3?pf_rd_p=486539851&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=0764554042&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=1YE3F7BK1G1SAY4S83E7 - http://www.amazon.com/Chord-Wheel-Ultimate-Musicians-Instructional/dp/0634021427/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1285895183&sr=1-1
To figure out the chords after I have the melody and know the key, I take each note of the melody and figure out on the keyboard what harmonies go with those notes. Now, if the melody is played only on the white keys, I know that is the key of C. Again if you go and get any or all of the following books, it helps a lot and all of a sudden it seems really easy.
Typically, you want at least three notes to make up a chord. I prefer four. So, I take the first note for the melody and so I add notes to it that are lower (below) that note that harmonize with the note and sound right for my idea of the song. Usually every other key on the piano works fine (not counting the black keys) in the key of C. So when I have 4 notes that sound good together, since I don't know the keyboard that well, I type the notes into some software that I found online called RPsoft2000 Musicord http://www.rpsoft2000.com/rps_musicord.htm and the software tells me, based upon the notes I type in, what chord it is.
Now that I know the name of the chord (and some chords have more than one name depending upon the key you are in), I know how to play it on the guitar. Chords follow the rhythm of the music. So, you almost always have a chord played on the first beat of the measure. That same chord may play in the back ground for the entire measure and sometimes more than one measure depending upon the melody. There could be as many as four different chords played in a measure. Normally you will only see one or two chords played in a measure. What chords are played depends upon the melody and the harmonies that go with the melody which determine the chords. Once you have the chord progression figured out, you can just play the chords on the keyboard or the guitar or both to give you the background music for your song. You can also add a bass part which typically consists of one note (the root note) of each chord. It is often best to allow the bass player to write his/her own bass part. They will often do a much batter job. In my case, I write all the bass parts myself. Usually the bass part is the last thing I do although some song I write are built entirely around the bass part. In those cases, I actually begin with a bass part. Another thing you can do, which a lot of bands do, is to start with a chord progression that they like, and then write a melody and some lyrics for that chord progression.
Here is a great web site for coming up with ideas for chord progressions. http://www.palojono.com/dev/chord_progression_generator/chord_progression_generator.php
There are patterns you will learn after you've been at it a while and when you are playing the melody you will begin to hear the chord changes and know what they should be because your mind will remember the chord changes and the muscles in your fingers know them too.
Good luck to you! The world needs more songwriters!
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