Lesson Overview:

This is the second video in the four-part Pinciples Of Music Foundation Course. In thie vdeo Bryan addresses the principle of Melody and builds on some of the concepts laid on in the first installment.

Listening recommendations mentioned in the video: Shostokivic, Mozart, Beethoven, Haydn, Louis Armstrong

Bryan’s reccomendation for the 9 symphonies – https://open.spotify.com/album/5U2ZIDU7MISDzXEtFbcZWJ?si=L4ZR3hQXQ5SBqCDNe50dnQ

Shostokovich 2nd Piano Concerto, Andante Movement – https://open.spotify.com/track/7faWy3kAy0GkTqAzkUBhCf?si=1a456b44f32a4e9f

Louis Armstrong Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/album/7xYnLZK3hR60bzd6sRNOvm?si=Xv846eN7RPyLmWPnnBEWng

Soundbites

00:00:30 “Melody and Rhythm are the irrefutables… People want to hear something melodic and they want to hear something rhythmic”

00:04:00 “The end goal of what we’re trying to do here as musicians is to alter a human life”

00:05:30 “You have to give the listener the thing their inner soul wants from us and that is rhythm and melody”

00:07:00 “To know what a good melody is… You’ve gotta listen to a lot of music”

00:08:40 “I’ve Never met anyone who listened to enough music”

00:25:10 “Making something melodic is done by taking notes and combining it with a rhythmic strucuture that makes musical, logical, form based sense”

00:28:20 “Melody has to be Vocal”

00:29:50 “Inflection is a huge part of making a melody”

00:42:35 “Listening to music is practice!”

00:57:00 “If you hear something thats melodic, ask yourself whats happeing?”

01:11:00 “There’s a consistent Thread between the willingness to vocalise what you’re doing and quality”

01:23:20 “Building a Roladex of other people’s licks isn’t improvising”