424. How to remember melodies or play melodies by listening

There are 3 types of memory 

1) emotional-audible (emotional)

2) mobility of hand muscles (kineasthetic) 

3) optical-mental if it is from musical score. 

The strongest memory is 1). 

At the end of the repertory practice , we associate every melody name with its "fingerprint" which is only a few notes, enough to  let us  bring all of the melody it to our memory. 

Here in the next video the beatiful and clever girl she explains 3 steps from up to down 

from macroscopic perception to  microscopic perception

 1) Listen and analyze, find scales and chords.

2) Analysis of repetition  parts of the melody  

3) More analysis of each parts for patterns  like up-waving, down-waving , flat-waving, arpeggios, tails, straight up move, straight down move, highest and lowest notes of the parts . Also first notes of the parts or of all the melody etc  

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7c--Dh0po4

423. COMPOSITION OF SONGS BASED ON 4 CHORD PROGRESSIONS OF 4 CHORDS.

 See laso about the 12 bars blues post 396

The basic idea is to have a 3 part song with 2 couple and one refrain

And each couple and the refrain has as chord progression 4 chords  A1 B1 A2 B2

The primary choice is that the pairs (A1 B1) and (A2 , B2) are harmonic pairs

Then the relation of the paits may be chormatic , or melodic, or even all the 4 chords 

(A1 B1 A2 B2) may be in consecutive harmonic relation. 

Examples 

SONG A

REFRAIN=     1M7 4M  5M7 1M 

                         1M7 4M 4m 1M

COUPLE1= 6M7 2m 5m7 1M

COUPLE2= 3M7 6m 5M7 1M

SONG B

REFRAIN=      5M7 1M  1M7 4M 

COUPLE1= 6M7 2m 1M7 4M

COUPLE2= 3M7 6m 5M7 1M

SONG C

REFRAIN=      5M7 1M  4M 1M 

COUPLE1= 7M7 3m 6M7 2m

COUPLE2= 2M7 5m 1M7 4M

          

422. EASY IMPROVISATION OVER SYMMETRIC CHORD PROGRESSIONS THAT CREATE MELODY WITH SYMMETRIC THEMES MODULATIONS

 A chord progression A1 A2 A3,...,An is called symmetric if the relation oftwo succesive transitions Ai A(i+1) is of t he same type. Either harmonic, or melodic or chromatic. 

If a symmetric chord progression is such that the relation of the first A1 and last chord An is a chromatic transition, it is called symmetric cycle of chords. 

More generally a chord progression partitioned in pairs (A1 B1), (A2, B2),...,(An , Bn) is called pairs-symmetric, if all the transitions (Ai, Bi) are ofthe same type (harmonic, melodic or chromatic) e.g. harmonic and all the transition     (Ai, A(i+1)) are of thesame type e.g. chromatic. 

The advanage of such symmetric chord progresions is that when composing-improvisiong melody themes on its chord transtitions (e.g. on  (A1 A2)  or in  (A1,B1) for paits symmetric)  , by modulating them to the next chord transition we get a melody with symmetric modulations. 

But even if the chord progression is not symmetric or pair-symmetric, we may modulate the chord-internal and chord-external melody themes from chord transition to chord transition, with isomorphic ryhthm and ismorphic pitch order structure (topology). Still the melody will sound symmetric. Simply some steps ofthe melody will not always be the same type of intervals but will change from 3rds , to 2nds or 4ths/5ths while the number of notes rhythm and pitch order is preserved. 

An example is the song Thalassa platia (wide sea) by M. Hatzidakis where in the first part he is utilizing as symmetric chord progression the chromatic Analuzian cadenza Am->GM->FM->EM7

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08a20T78KiA&ab_channel=0204elleni

The refrain of  this songs is not a symmetric chord progression, but it could be adopted to have one E.g. melodyc symmetric or chromatic symmetric

E.g. a chromatic symmetric refrain could be   Em->Dm->CM->BM7

421. A SECRET KEY LINKING CHORD TRASITIONS AND MELODIC THEMES: THE TECHNIQUE OF COMPOSING MELODIC THEMS OVER A CHORD PROGRESSION, BY ALTERNATION OF 50% CHORD-INTERNAL MELODIC SCALE-50% CHORD-EXTERNAL CHROMATIC SCALE MELODIC THEMES DURING A CHORD AND CHORD TRANSITION.

A SECRET KEY LINKING CHORD TRASITIONS AND MELODIC THEMES

THE TECHNIQUE OF COMPOSING MELODIC THEMS OVER A CHORD PROGRESSION, BY the rule of " 50% vertical (arpeggio) 50% horizontal (tail)"ALTERNATION OF MELODIC SCALE (arpeggio)-CHROMATIC SCALE (tail) MELODIC THEMES DURING A CHORD AND CHORD TRANSITION.

What we mean with the above is that ifthe chord transition is chordA->chordB

We play alternating melodic theme M1  first "vertically" in the melodic version of the scale (arpeggio)  , in other words by alternating minor-major 3rds, which is easily within the chordA  (chordA internal theme or arpeggio) and then a 2nd melodic theme M2  about of equal time duration which is in the chromatic scale (tail) and is bridging to the next chordB (ChrodA external theme or tail) . Then we repeat at chordB etc. 

From the point of view of pitch-order topology and rhythms , the melodic themes M1 (arpeggio), M2 (tail) may be isomorphic or inverse isomorphic (which means an up move becomes a down move and vice versa). 

This is very common technique with the andaluzian cadenza (6m-> 5M-> 4M-> 3M7)  songs which is a chromatic chord progression. 

In this way at least 50% of the notes and time the melody is in the chord (rule of 50%) and also at least 50% of the steps are melodic intervals (3rds) as in beatiful Irish songs, which makes the melody more beatiful. Actually the full spectrum of choices in the melody would require not only the chromatic sequence or speed  of the notes of the diatonic scale and the melodic sequence by alternating major-minor thirds but also the harmonic sequence or speed by 4ths or 5ths. 

And the recipe of beauty would be 40% chromatic, 40% melodic , 20% harmonic densities in the melody. 

This tecnique explains the kind   of the chords transitions (harmonic-melodic-chromatic) with the corresond such  vertical-horizontal or chord-internal-external or melodic-chromatic melodic themes M1, M2 .  The chord transitions that are melodic or harmonic, have as the bridging melodic theme  the melodic theme M1 in the melodic scale, while the chromatic transitions have as bridging melodic theme the chromatic melodic theme M2. 

Example of a song with a melody with thsi structure

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkermyl_JKw&t=2s&ab_channel=%CE%88%CE%BD%CE%B1%CF%82%CE%B1%CE%B3%CE%AD%CF%81%CE%B1%CF%82

How to remember melodies or play melodies by  listening:

3 types of memory 1) emotional-audible 2) mobility of hand muscles 3) optical-mental if it is from score. The strongest memory is 1). At the end of the repertory practice , we associate every melody name with its "fingerprint" which is only a few notes, enough to  let they bring it to our memory. 

Here in the next video she explains 3 steps from up to down from macroscopic perception to 

microscopic perception

 1) Listen and analyze, find scales and chords.

2) Analysis of repetition  parts of the melody  

3) More analysis of each parts for patterns  like up-waving, down-waving , flat-waving, arpeggios, tails, straight up move, straight down move, highest and lowest notes of the parts . Also first notes of the parts or of all the melody etc  

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7c--Dh0po4