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Composition: here are the notes that make your music more effective (part 1)

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The ‘appoggiatura’

Today we start a new cycle of video lessons that will allow you to learn very effective kind of notes that should be used to compose a great melody.

There are many reasons why these notes are so fascinating, but maybe the most important is that:

these notes can change the whole harmonic result.

Remember, all great songs are made up of notes like these!
For this reason we need to know them in depth and how to use them in the right way.

To make the most of this lesson, I suggest you to watch the following lesson (if you haven’t already done):

Strong beat and weak beat, rhythmic accents, downbeat and upbeat

Learning material of this lesson

6 videos 40 mins
1. Introduction to the new cycle of videolessons 2m 06s
2. Non harmonic tones and strong beats 7m 40s
3. What is the ‘appoggiatura’? 8m 58s
4. How to use ‘appoggiatura’ on secondary strong beats 7m 53s
5. Ascending ‘appoggiatura’ 7m 36s
6. Hot to mix different kinds of ‘appoggiatura’ 6m 15s
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Strong beat and weak beat, downbeat and upbeat: let’s define these concepts clearly

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Strong beat and weak beat

Rhythm is an essential element of music.
For this reason it is necessary to understand how it is really structured and how it gives music the feature of movement.

Today we will go more in-depth into this concept and introduce some fundamental concepts including:

  • what are downbeat and upbeat
  • what are rhythmic accents
  • what distinguishes strong beat from weak beat
  • why strong beat is so important in melody and harmony

Learning material of this lesson

5 videos 20 mins
1. Why music is motion 2m 54s
2. What are downbeat and upbeat 1m 51s
3. Binary, ternary and quaternary rhythmn 3m 21s
4. Rhythmic accents: strong beat and weak beat 4m 28s
5. Two considerations about the importance of strong beat 7m 27s
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