Let her Go - Guitar Chords

Chorus - ||: C / G / | D / Em / | C / G / | D / / / :||

Verse - ||: Em / C / | D / Bm / | Em / C / | D / / / :||

Movie Music - Pirates of the Caribeen

Surprise Symphony

Waiting on the World to Change.

Structure in your song.

Create a diagram that shows the STRUCTURE of this piece. Try to include the details of the instruments [TONE COLOUR] and maybe even how the instruments are being played [expressive techniques]




What do you find interesting about the structure of this song?

Looking at the list of instruments what sub-genre of music do you think this might fit into?

What is the song about? How does the music support the theme of the lyrics?

EXTENSION QUESTIONS.

Map out the chord progressions for the verse and the chorus.
Where does the composer use INVERSIONS?
What effect does this have on the song chords?

Writing Melodies

2. The Power of the Pentatonic

This is a principle true for nearly all popular sung melodies. Song melody tends to revolve around pentatonic scales. “Penta” means five,  and “tonic” means notes, so a  pentatonic scale is a series of five notes. The most common forms of pentatonic scales are the pentatonic major and the pentatonic minor. Here they are in C:-

Pentatonic Major Scale In C
C-D-E-G-A

Pentatonic Minor Scale In C
C-Eb-F-G-Bb

(from which we also have the blues scale by adding in the diminished fifth – F#)

Let’s take a look at “The Scientist” by Coldplay:-

The first line of the song uses four notes from this scale, in this order:-As this is in the key of F, here are the notes to F pentatonic major:-
F – G – A – C – D

F – G – F – C – A
And through out the whole of the verse, it restricts itself to just these four pitches (with a variation on the pattern at line three – notice also the “power of three” at work here). Only at the chorus do we get one new pitch (D)
F – D – C – F  -  D – C – F – D – C 
(To the words “Nobody said it was easy”)
And only on the final two lines of the chorus are there any other pitches in the whole of the melody (Bb and E). This restriction to just a few notes gives the song a nursery rhyme like quality, making it is easily remembered. And when the movement away from the pentatonic comes (on the last two lines) the notes have more impact, because we have been unconsciously anticipating a change such as this for a long time.

Read more: http://www.haydockmusic.com/composing_tips/writing_melodies.html#ixzz4GhI44E9N

Classical Music Structures

teoria Music theory webpage.

 This page helps to explain musical structures in classical music.


You can also learn about musical structures here...

High school presentation/Forms of Music from rocio_mejia

Creating and Naming Chords