How to Craft An Unforgettable Melody

i think his clock's broken 9:32

Those two melodies are almost identical

full of shit, get good

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Excellent

spitfires free piano is sick . I admit, it seems like it only round robins between 2 samples per note, but… the tone and warmth is next level inspiring. I could play ANY chord on the std “GM Piano” and be disgusted. While, literally EVERY chord is so inspiring on Spitfire. This lesson on melody was extremely helpful, thank you Zack. You are a fantastic musician my guy. Much love!

Hi, any DAW suggestion for a completely virtual music production please ? using only a MIDI ? Thanks

I have been a musician for 40 years, and it's incredible that nowadays, people are emerging, claiming to be music composers with AI, but can't play anything nor know how to lay a track down. Learn an instrument! It's an absolute joke if one thinks they can compose music by telling an AI programme what sounds to make! And spending time tweaking certain parts, as you can't find the musical vocabulary/terminology to get the point across...learn an instrument you lazy f*cks...its actually fun, and really full filing!
One last thing, there's a guy called Jason Becker, who was a stunning guitar player who got his world ripped aways from him after developing ALS - Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. In short, his body slowly began to shut down, to the point where he is completely paralysed, he can only use his eyes. So his dad put this system together, where Jason uses his eyes to to work with a pointers system which places music notation on a modified logic Pro system, to compose the parts for each instrument chosen for that particular composition.
Jason suggests that AI used as complete replacement for human creativity results in crap, lifeless noise. Learn an instrument! It opens the music world up for you.
Because music is not music if it's not played or contains soul, nuance, dynamics and passion.
But, you just think its a good thing, even though they are turning you into talentless lemmings.
Anyways, there's some musical terminology for you in what I Just wrote, should help you tell your computer what to do in your journey to becoming a composer of muzak.
But hey, enough of my yakin!

10:15 the amount the one was better is wild

Its all gibberish to me😅

so helpful and interesting video omg pure sugar thank you...

1:08 range/ interval
1:34 motif 1:46 2:14
2:42 整體的形狀 shape
4:28 創造一個旋律

WTF, change your VOICE

very off topic but what's the piano library here?

5:30

This melody came out nice.

An issue I have is that I feel so self-conscious composing the treble part that my gut wrenches from how cringe-sounding it comes out and I become ashamed for pirating my DAW and uninstall it until I want to write something again. How do you propose to work around this issue? I am a broke bosnian teenager who wants to write nationalistic turbo folk against Serbian people and cant afford FL studio

Yo this is a great video I’m subscribing

Wow

Do you forget when composing a melody? How do you handle them

Awesome technique

11:12 Very useful idea. I'd like to mention that sometimes I try to do the opposite, because I noticed that sometimes the initial melody is better, but later I intuitively move to motifs that are less original, more common or easier for me. If a melody is good, it will become memorable, although it may need repetition to stick.

1:33 oh, nice analogy between a motif and a cell; that makes me think of comparing a motif with a gene, because a gene can be very important for the DNA (of the song), but at the same time there's no strict definition of where a gene/motif starts and ends

Thank you so much for making this! The length was great and there is so much helpful advice in it.

Ugh i suck you should just compose for me. 😂 i will figure it out i suppose

Start with small motif and expand
Start with shape and embellish
Start withninterval and embellish
Misremember

It would be great to do one of these for up eat pop music. Most the melodies are simple but there's something that makes a good wine catchy

I'm baffled at how much knowledge all of these guys seem to have each one of them, has knowledge that the prior one doesn't

I forget melodies as soon as I create them. And especially what notes or muscles I used.

This was soooo helpful literally having the biggest musicians block ever and this got me out of it! Thanks bro saving this for later

The last tip, about stepping away for 30 minutes and try and recreate the melody from memory, is genius. Will definitely try and implement this one in my work!

So what if somebody writes a melogy that spans say 3 1/2 octaves. Not everybody could sing this but there are a few. This is how I think. You give me a rule, I can see how it makes sense, but I ask What If.
(a lot of my friends think I'm crazy)

the idea that melody needs to rise is just ridiculous. Plenty of examples of melodies that don't rise, they just happen to not be by John Williams. This is the kind of asymmetry people try to impose on music that makes people turn into werewolves.

How many are the proud owners of the BD 990 headphones?

Cells 👾

@ZachHeyde amazing video and great techniques. I absolutely got what I came for.

Just one note: "motif" is actually pronounced mo-TEEF.

Thanks so much for a fantastic video!

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Lol 4:37 it's the old Nokia rightone, jusy without the last 3 notes. Just exact notes and rythm

Wow that last trick is very clever

One thing I do sometimes to spice up the rhythm is to actually notate them on paper and make sure they don’t remain even/flat. I also like to use the 2/3 of the piece completion for the crescendo of the piece.
Here is a great example, far better than I can explain.

Amazing video brother

Great stuff! I try to come up with something new every day and don't bother remembering it (although I will record it). The ones that come back into my head are the keepers.

Sounds like final fantasy 😂🔥

This was so useful and enjoyable. I didn't want the video to end. The interval approach is my favorite. Your accompaniment to the interval approach was very beautiful.

What keyboard do you use?