Bass Sequence Using Falling Thirds - Music Composition

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This music composition lesson explores one idea for writing a sequence based on a pattern in the bass line. In this case, the bass alternates falling thirds with rising seconds to generate a melodic pattern at the bottom of the texture, with an implied chord scheme that serves the sequence well. These kind of structures are useful for composers working in any genre and are especially for building bridges or other connections between musical ideas.
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0:00 - Introduction to bass sequence using falling thirds
0:26 - What is a sequence in music?
3:08 - Thinking about length
5:27 - The third second sequence
7:39 - Chord progression
9:24 - Adding interest
11:57 - Playing the plain version
12:06 - Playing the elaborated version
13:10 - Conclusion
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Комментарии : 37

@MusicMattersGB 11 месяцев назад

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@inakalimba9428 7 месяцев назад

I completed a bass track for my first 8 track song. I used a drum sequence to carry the beat. I wrote both clefts first.Yes . Then, wrote the drum sequence. I read/write sheet music. But, I had to learn drum sheet notations😮 It was really fun.

@MusicMattersGB 7 месяцев назад

Excellent

@knd1986 11 месяцев назад

Fantastic video, thank you very much Gareth!

@MusicMattersGB 11 месяцев назад

A pleasure

@martycli9299 10 месяцев назад

Thanks, I always learn something from your videos!

@MusicMattersGB 10 месяцев назад

That’s great. Much more to help you at www.mmcourses.co.uk

@3Foxicurl 11 месяцев назад

I had that exact harmonic march in a song I wrote when I was starting to study harmony but I used the monotony of repetition to my advantage. The first part was very dynamic flamboyant everywhere melodies and it climaxed to this part in a very consistent rhythmic way to stabilize the beat and strengthen the tempo

@MusicMattersGB 11 месяцев назад

Excellent

@Blissful-Yogi 11 месяцев назад

Thank you so much for your clear and concise instruction 🙏🏼 I am so grateful.

@MusicMattersGB 11 месяцев назад

A pleasure. Much more to help you at www.mmcourses.co.uk

@Blissful-Yogi 11 месяцев назад

@@MusicMattersGB I’ll check it out!

@MusicMattersGB 11 месяцев назад

😀

@rogertraylor7288 10 месяцев назад

Good stuff!

@MusicMattersGB 10 месяцев назад

Most kind.

@grailgnosticism2342 10 месяцев назад

your bass line reminds me of the score to the classic horror movie The Shining.

@MusicMattersGB 10 месяцев назад

😀

@pathaks1 9 месяцев назад

Good sense

@MusicMattersGB 9 месяцев назад

😀

@johnrodgers4773 11 месяцев назад

"...and that could be a danger." Let me present P.D.Q. Bach as Exhibit A.

@MusicMattersGB 11 месяцев назад

Absolutely!

@Dave-nm8uk 10 месяцев назад

Very helpul - just making some features more explicit. One curiosity which I wondered about - and will have to explore - is the monotony "rule". If on this occasion we make the sequence four bars long [boring] we should be able to get from V to I - but is that essentially pointless as getting from V to I is normally straightforward anyway? Also if we think in phrase terms there can be some merit in having different lengths of phrases - for example in Beethoven's seventh there are passages where many people would imagine there are 3 x 4 bar phrases repeated, but actually they're not. They are 5 - 4 - 3, so it's possible that sometimes having a longer sequence might work in a larger structure. What I'm suggesting here is that sometimes a longer sequence or phrase might actually work in certain contexts.

@MusicMattersGB 10 месяцев назад

Absolutely. Context is everything

@megfellowes 11 месяцев назад

Both this and your six bar cannon were great for a beginner like me. 🙏

@MusicMattersGB 11 месяцев назад

Glad it’s helpful. Much more at www.mmcourses.co.uk

@austinmchale7232 10 месяцев назад

Ferdinando Carrulli suggested, rather laconically, that a major scale descending is a minor scale, which implies that a (natural?) minor scale descending is a major scale. It helps to explain, I think, the "plaintive" in major tunes and the "pleasant" in minor tunes. Thanks again, Gareth. Slán. Austin.

@MusicMattersGB 10 месяцев назад

An interesting perspective

@austinmchale7232 10 месяцев назад

@@MusicMattersGB of course, Carrulli could be saying that if a rising major 3rd were, say, 'active', a falling major 3rd would be 'passive', or if a rising minor 3rd were 'passive (because 'plaintive'), a falling minor 3rd would be 'active'. Again, a rising 4th 'active', or a rising 5th 'passive', etc. But I may be jumping to conclusions. Thanks again, Gareth. Slán. Austin

@MusicMattersGB 10 месяцев назад

@austinmchale7232 Reasonable conclusions

@123jkjk123 3 месяца назад

Maybe it has to do with rising a major 3rd from the root is in major scale. But falling a major 3rd from the root takes you to the minor 6th in minor scale.

@austinmchale7232 3 месяца назад

Interesting. Felix Saltzer suggested in 'Structural Hearing '(1952)(Dover?) that we should be able to analyse formally in order to do so qualitatively. It would be interesting if the ideas were already there and, like Carulli, we just had to dig them out. Even so, we would still have to equate our 'evidence- based ' theory with music as an expression of emotional intelligence. So, good luck with the quest! Slán!@@123jkjk123

@jayducharme 11 месяцев назад

Thank you. This is yet another lesson where I'd been employing the technique but never really knew what I was doing. And isn't repeating sequences over and over the bread and butter of the minimalists (even though they often subtly shift rhythm and harmony)?

@MusicMattersGB 11 месяцев назад

Absolutely