For a person who is learning music by himself, all of this free education makes my heart melt with gratitude, thanks a bunch.

Look at humans. They spread knowledge around voluntarily. Teachers want to teach.

I just learned more about music in these 33 min than I have in the previous 56 years !

Anyone here having to watch this because their school has told them to?

Happy Teachers day🎉

Music is not the only thing I start with a tonic 😉🍸

I searched up how to write music on the piano and those words came out of no where , standard period squeals 8 measures ... whaa? are you saying I'll have period for 8 days?...

The only way people will understand a video like this is to make it ALL SIMPLE as possible! But to give good details! And not all beginners know what Major and minor chords are nor do they know how to count to music!

Random noise is dirty noise. Music is clean noise wich comes in a pattern.

When you try to learn music theory from KZfaq cus U have no money for a teacher. 😉

As a conductor, performer, writer of music, music educator, and theorist, I found this video to be an excellent guide for folks building melodies, even as a model that can refresh the professional. Sometimes it's excellent to review things like this to learn about different approaches to the creative process. I found the class melody to be quite interesting as well as innovative as far as their use of leaps in the consequent phrase followed with appropriate stepwise motion in the opposite direction. An overall excellent video tutorial.

I write my own melodies on my guitar and on my piano and I don't know anything about reading/writing music or these formulas. I only go by what sounds/feels good. This video has shown me what I was doing. I never thought about these concepts of tension and release before. Now I can understand better what it is that I was doing without even knowing it. I think its important to know the theories behind things because I have been stumbling across melodies for years. Now I think I might be able to compose something quicker especially when I get stuck In repetition and don't know where to go from there. I constantly find myself stuck with unfinished melodies. I believe this will help. Thanks for posting the video.

So many people in this comment section seem to be regarding this as a formula that removes all creative process from writing a melody... maybe because they weren't paying attention, lack critical thinking, or just knee-jerk commented and left the video.

I've had to wait over seventy years to know this?

I am retired now, but I have just started to read music and play the piano.

i’ve just found this video and it’s literally everything i’ve been looking for, literally!!!, thank you for creating this video

The "bad" example of too many leaps actually sounds quite good in a creepy, horror context.

My parents had to squeeze out extra money for me to take piano lessons back in the 60's. I started when I was 10 years old. By the time I got to lessons like this, I was paying TUITION in a 4 year University of which cost us Thousands of dollars. I can't believe my eyes when I see complained posted in some tutorials. Then I understand that anyone who has any complains are not here to learn music from the "C" scale on up. They want to be Jerry Lee Lewis in 2 weeks. lol However, with ALL the music I have been trained for, I still come back to lessons like this. I am a 65 year old Female Musician of over 50 years and here I am still learning and refreshing my knowledge. Thank You Very Much.

Look at all these clueless people in the comment section, thinking that music should be written "from the heart" without "following rules". How much music have you written, played, or studied?

Thanks for taking the time to do this lesson. I'm a guitarist who has just started venturing into the world of writing melodies (or putting proper melodies to paper) and this has been a great start.