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@jellyroll aimee puts out excellent content. That video is a very interesting analysis of some good melodies. Thanks for that! I particularly like the comparisons to jazz standards and bebop which I listen to alot.
@Funkfingers thanks for the link. But BBC is being an ass and not letting me view it cause I'm in Malaysia and not the UK.
@viz that is an intense piece of music! I'll have to give it a few more listens to internalise and appreciate the melody better. But on my first few listens, the first thing that sticks out to me is the juxtaposition of the nimble and powerful left hand playing and the hesitant, slightly delayed melody line played on the right. Then on the second and third time through the same motif, the melody line picks up in tempo and confidence.. Very interesting rhythmic idea.
Thank you everyone else for all the other comments.
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Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
And by the time it’s presented to an audience then it all just comes down to an individual’s taste.
This is a cool vid that talks about improvising melodies.. REALLY good..
For me though its about picking out interesting notes but also notes that arnt just random but lead you somewhere. For me David Gilmour is one of the best melodic players along with Jeff Beck.
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An example of a good melody to me is:
@rabs and @Phil_aka_Pip thank you for the suggestions. I do enjoy a good melodic guitar solo but I was thinking more of lead or head melodies, which tend to be sparser. But I guess the ideas do overlap somewhat.
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Yeah I know what I posted was a bit different to what you were asking but thought it relevant...
This guy does REALLY good videos where he goes in to the technical aspects of many great songs and I think he does it really well..
Heres his tips for a great melody...
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I was reading the sheet music to Taylor Swift's 1989 albums and noticed the amount of one note melodies she uses. The chords are moving while she's singing on a single note. Her use of rhythm is so strong that it never sounds boring. Just to note, other artists do this too, but I like Taylor Swift's music so that's why I'm using her as an example.
And also surprising timings... Add a little double time or playing in-between beats rather than on the beats...
So basically... Try not to be boring Add musical surprises....
This is why I gave the examples of solo players.. In a solo I think to be good it cant just be scales and playing inside the boxes. You need to play outside the box literally and mentally.
The problem with all of this is everyone has different taste.. So sometimes people can go so far outside the box (in my taste) that it becomes being different just to be different rather than it necessarily sounding good. Its my issue with Fusion Jazz type music.. Its so far outside the box that I can no longer follow any sense of a pattern and then it almost becomes a bunch of people playing random notes as there never seems to be any resolution to the music. I understand and see the skill involved in such music but I don't enjoy listening to it.
Something like this
I get the skill.. But theres so much going on that at the end I don't remember any of it.. Id rather have a catchy repetitive riff and some good lyrics to listen too
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A good friend of mine is currently getting a demo together.. He spent like ten years studying music at Uni... When I hear his music I can always hear he has tried to make it as interesting as possible.
Heres one track
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A solo has to have both of these at some point to make it relevant so probably be at the start then a reference midway culminating back down the scale in the original key.
Is strange how evident this is when studying other classic songs but bloody hard to build-in when thinking about it logically with a blank sheet in front of you!