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Finally, a video that explains what the notes that are outside the chords are!!

You're such an incredible teacher Gareth and are helping me no end in becoming a better musician and songwriter. Thank you!!!

As simple as this is, it's incredibly powerful. I keep coming back to these videos. They have helped me so much. Thanks!

I've spent a majority of my time over the last couple of days watching a ton of your videos. Lots of great information and well taught. Thanks. Composing for brass ensembles would be a great topic.

Good teacher is one who explains subject, but great teacher is one who makes feel the subject simple…! 👍

Amazing! Something just clicked in my head after watching this. Thank you so very much!!!

This guy is just an incredible teacher! Congrats and thank you!

So simple. So helpful. Lots of online music writing sources make this so complicated, but this is what made it click. Thank you so much.

Passing, auxilary, anticipating. Thanks!

Another great video. Not the topic that I need at the moment, but you explained things so well I'll apply it to my counterpoint exercises as well as my cadence exercises. I have just finished "mastering" major triads, and started on the harmonic minor triads. I'm practicing your sequences in every key, and it's becoming easier. My teacher says to keep pounding away on the 88s. He's happy with my progress, and so am I. The turning point was your video on Rule of the Octave. Not only do I love your videos, but your comments section is the nicest on You Tube. You have built up a great channel.

Gareth, you are one of the best teachers I ever had.

Gareth, thank you very much!! You have rekindle my dream: I would like to learn how to write melodies!!

As a casual guitar player with a basic knowledge of musical theory embarking on writing his first real song, your lesson is exactly what I needed. I did not realise that the notes from the chords can be used for writing a melody. Thank you for such a clear and encompassing lesson.

I'm a " lapsed" Grade 5 who took his exams many moons ago and due to the current stay at home situation has dusted off the digital piano and i find your videos and their delivery both useful and enjoyable ,not an easy trick to pull off , keep up the good work !!

Thanks very much, definitely one of the best tutorials on musical composition I've seen so far.

I learn more from you than any other piano KZfaq site. Thank you

With the stock markets crashing, feds printing money and people speculating on gold and bitcoin, some wonder if there is any safe haven that will keep its value. I think these videos are it. Better than gold! Training generations of good composers.

Many thanks. I enjoyed this and the one where you started with a melody and worked out fitting chords. Happy 2019.

Superb teacher. Clear. Precise. Excellent.

Sir you r an award winning teacher

Best Lessons I’ve seen on KZfaq! Thanks for Sharing 😃👍👍👍

Sounds like a hit song! Great Gareth! You’re the best!

I think this was the video I needed. I just composed a melody using a different song's chord progression and it actually sounds GOOD. Thank you so much! I do believe that your video helped immensely! Hopefully I can make others just as good!

Just discovered your channel a few days ago, and it inspired me to come back to learn music Thankyou so much I don't think I'll say anything that has been said on previous comments, but keep the awesome work.

That was the best instruction I've seen

I'm using your videos to teach GCSE/A level at school - you make music matters so easy for students to understand and me to teach. Thank you!

Thank you Mr Gared! God bless your life

Maybe fifty-odd years ago I came across a book in the local library (Cincinnati, OH, USA) by a fellow you probably know of, since the two of you are countrymen and he possessed expertise similar to yours. I refer to the late King Palmer. The book was entitled "Compose Music (Teach Yourself)." I liked it so much I told the library I'd lost it and paid them for it. I still have it. I've written thirty or forty original pieces since then and the kick-start that book gave me helped a lot. Your presentation, which I like very much, reminds me of his. Good work. Stay after it.

I can not be more thankful for this video!! Thank you so much!!

Very helpful. Thanks. I especially like the "anticipating" notes. You could call it a monotone version of a suspended chord. Listeners can't wait to hear it resolved. Excellent video. Bang on!

Alberti Bass would give this piece a Classical style. :)

This was very helpful, thank you so much

The most honest tutorial 😊

Well done! Really well explained👍

I have been stuck for a long time in a loop now I got a way to move on ,thank you sir 😍

Fantastic video, as always - thanks again Gareth for helping me plug the holes in my music theory :)

Great videos. thanks for the help. you break down theory really well and in a simple way. it has always been a bit of a struggle but I am finally getting confident with it.

Excellent class!

This was excellent!

Thank you so much for your excellent videos 😊

This is all one needs to build on. Many Many Thanks.

you are an excellent teacher, thanks for you videos, they help so many people.

enjoying your tutorials

Gareth cheers to you my music theory improved amazingly so enjoyable writing a melody over the chords thank you sir absolutely brilliant xoxo.

In our country composer called ilaiyaraaja. I observed important two techniques from him it improved my music much. He used to score music for whole film in only three days . most of them got national award , he scored More than 1500 films and still going on. And he made symphonys . all his songs are remarkable. But he compose song in only half an hour including arrengments.

Thank you so much! I usually don't like making a song entirely from a chord scheme, it feels soulless to me, but it can be a good way to start a melody and get an idea. Thanks!

You're great teacher.youre explanations are very clear n understandable

Thank you so much!

So many thanks for your nice and kind teaching

Yet another very helpful video. Excellent.

your are awesome teacher

Thank You !

This lesson also help us for better improvisation and instant melody making with any instrument

I sort of reverse engineer this process to get songs by ear. Get the chords down first to get a logical assortment of notes most likely used in a phrase and then choose those that match the tune either while listening to it or playing it in your head. The rhythm usually is not a problem. Great fun and cheaper than buying sheet music.

Great video 👍🏾

This was so incredibly helpful and easy to understand and I am so dumb when it comes to music so this was AWESOME thank you so so much

Thank you very much.

great lesson

all your contents are amazing! thank you for making these videos :)

Thank you man, your help was magnificent.

Thanks!

I'm curious how did john lennon use chords and melodies ? I'd love to here a in depth study . How he used passing notes , auxiliary notes a anticipatory notes. I love his connection of chords and melodies.

Very simple explanation. Thank you.

Awesome awesome awesome thanks

Thank you very much sir. Watched again after a long time.

Thanks a lot for wonderful material. These melodies are way to simple, could you please do a tutorial showing a more interesting melody with development and nice harmonic colors and some orchestration motives?

This was good.

So very useful and well explained. Thank you

Best tutorial ever... Big ups

Wonderful lesson! You are a very talented teacher. Even I could follow what you were explaining. :-)

do you have a video explaining why melodies may begin on non-root notes & why a particular one may be chosen over the other? I know if every song started on the root, things would be very boring, but I'm asking more along of the lines of why a writer thinks "Im going to begin on the 3rd here" & what the effect would be or how it would dictate the line going forward, rather than beginning on the 5th or other any other tone. thanks

You could've used the B flat with F major if you resolved it to to either the A or C depending on context and thematic elements of your song and it would've sounded quite lovely

Simply amazing ❤️

This piece sounds so nice at the end! For me, composition has always been something tantalizing. Thank you very much for the explanation! But why in the first place you put the chords F-Dm-Gm-C-F in a row?

Hi, this is great. A very informative and interesting topic thanks. I'm wondering, could you please do a feature on the Modes perhaps? Both what they are and how to apply them in composition. Just asking.

This was very helpful. Thank you.

Great stuff!

Nice

Great Video!! thanks a lot! Really simple and easy to understand. Do you have any specific advice for styles like pop/rock for example? Thanks!

thank you teacher for the lesson i made a good song but lost it

This was very helpful, thank you 👍

Your lessons are so wonderfully clear and approachable! A question: do passing, auxiliary, and anticipatory notes comprise the bulk or even the entire sum of inessential notes? Many songs I enjoy often do something fancy at the end of a bar smoothly walking up/down a scale to avoid what would otherwise be a massive leap, like perhaps from G all the way up to E in the next octave. Many of those ascending notes in between don't appear to be essential notes at least if I think in terms of diatonic triads. Perhaps they're using extended chords like sevenths and ninths? In that case, if I revisit them, perhaps half of those notes are passing notes.

amazing

Thank you very much

great great video!! i learned so much. now, can you do a video going the opposite direction? taking a melody and writing chord based on your melody notes?

Legend

Thank you sir

Thank you 😊

I enjoyed your lecture. Please I have an upcoming music competition that requires us to sing with already made beats. But my problem is that I don't know how to make a good Melody for each of the beats. Please I need your help in this. I don't know if I should send you the beats to analyze??.

Great and incredible teacher. Plz keep up your good works. Thank you

Amazing sir

Thank you sir.

How can i create rythms with left hand while playing melody with right hand ? I am struggling to get it and i learn piano from your videos so please do a video for it.

you are awesome

Hi! My question is: can we start on an auxiliary note and then move to a note that belongs to the chord or it's necessary to start on a harmonic note?

Brillant

'Crotchets or quavers'. Honest confession, I find the BrE names better, because the AmE ones usually confuse me when I'm in anything except common time. A whole note's not a whole bar anymore? Like, what? Oh yeah we're in 3/4. (Not to say I hate all the AmE terms - I'd go fo 'ear training' over 'aural training' in colloquial speech anyday)

Thanks from India...

nice video..i have question please?..is anticipating notes the same appoggiaturas? thanku