Music Composition - How To Use Geometrical Inversions To Create Original Melodies (part 1)

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http://AdvancingGuitaristProgram.com For more creative ways to apply modern music theory to the guitar fingerboard. http://www.GuitarCoaching.com Especially designed for newbie players; learn how to apply the language of music to the guitar fingerboard. Music Composition - How To Use Geometrical Inversions To Help You Create Original Melodies (part 1) Hello this is Mike Hayes and I'd like to welcome you to our video on music composition; On this video we'll look at some of the creative ways we can approach the subject of writing music, the main focus of this video will be about geometrical inversions. So before we get right into the actual writing of the music I'd just like to explain the concept of geometrical inversions when we're doing music composition. geometrical inversions is a thematic development tool. it's a way of presenting the one musical idea four different ways; as you experiment with the techniques and the concepts that I'll present in this video you'll find that certain inversions of your melody will be more expressive or have a more interesting character. To show you how this works I'm just going to ask you to image that this line represents the pitch element of my melody and underneath here I'll mark in the rhythmic pattern, so this is the original presentation of my melody, it's just going to be a one bar melody at the moment; so we'll call this section "A", this is the original presentation of our theme. The "B" inversion of this melody would be to play the exact same thing only backwards, like this, this would be the pitch element and the rhythmic element would be presented like this ... so this is the "B" inversion. The "C" inversion of the melody would be the same as the original only this time it would not only be backwards but it would be upside down; like this. here is the rhythm I'm marking in, so this would be inversion "C"; it's essentially like we're looking in a puddle of water and we're seeing a reflection, the "C" inversion is a reflection of the "B" inversion. And finally, the "D" inversion of our melody would be exactly the same as our original melody in the "A" position only this time it would be upside down, so this is how it would look ... and just marking in our rhythms again, and as you can see the "D" inversion is a reflection of the original theme, the "A" section. O. K, now what I've done I've transferred our original sketch over on to music paper so my first theme is just a very scale- like theme, I'm starting on a C note, D and then E that's the pitch element and if you'll recall we had this rhythmic pattern of 2+1+1. Now, to write in the "B" inversion it's just simply going to be the exact same original theme only backwards. So we'll start by writing in a one beat E, followed by a one beat D and then finishing on a two beat C. O. K I think it's pretty easy to see what I've done there but it will give you a different melody. Our next project is to show you how we can workout how to get an exact reflection of our original theme when we invert the melody in the "C" position and the "D" position. Now, to find our exact reflection in the melody for our inversion "C" and inversion "D" I'm going to begin by marking in our axis point the C, and I'm actually going to work on the "D" inversion firstly it's just a little bit easier to show you that first. So, the note C will remain exactly the same for the "d" inversion, however, what I'm wanting to do now is measure how far away is the second note in our melody from the note C and if I go down to the keyboard here I can see it's a distance of two semitones, so to find the mirror image of the melody in the "A" section what i do I measure down two semitones from C and that would give me the note Bb; there's my C And now I'm going to mark in the note Bb, the next note in my original melody is a distance of one, two, three, four semitones from the keynote C . Other Helpful Keywords: Music Composition, Music Theory (Field Of Study), How To Write Music, Write Music, Composition, Music, How, To, Compose, Schoenberg, Beethoven, Mozart, Gershwin, Writing Music, Berlioz, Bach, music composition masterclass, music composition for beginners, music composition tutorial, music composition online, Learn Online, lessons, music composition 101, music composition lecture, music composition techniques, music composition toolbox, music composition for dummies, Education (Word), music composition tips, Video URL to share: http://youtu.be/-U-_qAyimTw Related Videos: http://youtu.be/5MDhCr-UTqE http://youtu.be/0ZW10HMBfW8 http://youtu.be/qkJM9yMuOvo http://youtu.be/yUR6RVyQ6KU Remember to subscribe to our Guitar Channel: https://www.youtube.com/mrguitarmadeeasy