Members Li Shenron Posted June 4, 2007 Members Share Posted June 4, 2007 What really makes a melody is not just the pitch of the notes, but it's their TIME = length and position plus pauses. Take a beautiful melody, and remove the time difference of its notes, which means turn all its notes into 8th for example, and the melody sucks. Very very few melodies are in fact composed by a long sequence of notes with the same duration and without pauses. OTOH it's possible to play melodies with very few pitches and make them nice with just their timing, see for instance "Samba de una nota soa". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rgordon83 Posted June 5, 2007 Members Share Posted June 5, 2007 Also, i think Rhythm is a HUGE part. maybe that's what you meant by time.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Li Shenron Posted June 5, 2007 Author Members Share Posted June 5, 2007 In a sense they are the same thing, but I said "time" to focus on the individual notes of a melody played by a single instrument. "Rhythm" might give someone the idea of many instruments together, particularly in the background. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members gennation Posted June 5, 2007 Members Share Posted June 5, 2007 If you didn't half rhythm, how would you play the notes? Think about it, with no rhythm would everything be quarter notes, eighth notes, or what...there's no rhythm...so none of that would even come into the picture...think about it. (how would the note live?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RedYagiDY Posted June 6, 2007 Members Share Posted June 6, 2007 Its all timing, if you wanna test it just play a bunch of random notes with a sweet rythem THEN play a bunch of notes in key with random timing and ask your audince which arangement was more musical. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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