How to Harmonize Repeated Notes - Music Composition

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Many people struggle to know how to harmonize repeated notes. This music composition explores three strategies for dealing with such situations by harmonising the same note repeated six times. The first strategy is to consider the three diatonic chords that fit with the given note. The second strategy is to consider how to balance root position chords with inversion chords. The third strategy is to consider how to decorate the harmony with inessential notes and suspensions. A combination of these approaches ensures that repeated notes in the melodic line do not result in static harmony and a lack of progression.
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0:00 - Introduction to how to harmonize repeated notes
0:54 - An example of a melody with repeated notes
1:54 - The simple solution
3:44 - Thinking about a better solution
5:54 - Choosing the chords and inversions
8:46 - A more interesting cadence
10:02 - Filling in the alto and tenor parts
12:55 - Adding passing notes
13:40 - Thinking dominant seventh chords
15:06 - Switching notes between parts
15:38 - Incorporating a suspension
18:05 - Decorating the suspension
19:06 - Hints of a chord III
21:14 - How does it all work together?
21:54 - Playing the final harmonization
22:02 - Conclusion
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23 июл 2024

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@MusicMattersGB Год назад

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@MarketGarden87 Год назад

Harmonizing repeated notes is one of my favorite things to do, or attempt to do. There’s nothing like free flowing melody and harmony underneath a pedal tone or repeated notes 🤤

@MusicMattersGB Год назад

Absolutely

@kisudisu Год назад

Thank you so much for making these incredible, informative videos and for presenting them in a manner that is very easy to understand!

@TechnoRaabe Год назад

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@jarodvmusic Год назад

Another great video! Even when I feel like I know something I still watch you explain it and always learn something, plus a lot of times a new perspective on things. I think we both share a love for suspensions. I was very happy to see you explain the decorated suspension you mentioned in a previous video. Watching you harmonize the alto and tenor in about a minute was impressive! I would love to know what is going through your head while you do that. You always have very helpful tricks and ways of thinking. I would also love to hear why chord III in Major is so weak in the hierarchy. I have been taught that it is a fairly ambiguous chord that can have Subdominant function but sometimes Tonic function.

@MusicMattersGB Год назад

That’s kind. iii is less frequently used than most other chords but yes, it can progress well to IV but also to vi.

@MichellPianoIsland Год назад

Love how you sing with the chords. Very interesting ideas with harmonizing those similar repeated notes.

@MusicMattersGB Год назад

Glad it’s helpful.

@chrismunroe8015 Год назад

I have been analysing a variety of music genres, and I'm discovering music using vague keys -- chord six starting progression. Personally, I'm experimenting with this because it's more interesting. It's funny, though, that you said there's nothing wrong with chord three but couldn't bring yourself to use it 😂. What I've recently learned is that there is freedom in music. Do what you want! Be free. Nuts to rules! Create, explore, have fun!

@MusicMattersGB Год назад

😀

@abagatelle Год назад

Gareth, you're obviously a mind reader! Brilliant stuff, thanks very much 😊

@MusicMattersGB Год назад

You’re too kind!

@ivanbosnich2909 Год назад

Excellent video. Thank you Gareth

@MusicMattersGB Год назад

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@stephenbashforth8257 Год назад

Very Helpful! the 4-2-3 suspension / decorated suspension is something I'd not come across before - so thank you.

@MusicMattersGB Год назад

It’s useful

@DentelloRomanticComposer1820s Год назад

It is so good to watch those videos, I have learned so many thing!! Thank you so much, Mr. G. Green

@MusicMattersGB Год назад

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@andrewmcconville1848 Год назад

I will never think of 6 g notes in the same boring way again. Txs

@MusicMattersGB Год назад

😀

@EuanLee Год назад

Very useful and thought provoking video!

@MusicMattersGB Год назад

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@ClaudiaGomezMusic 6 месяцев назад

Just a wonderful and easy way to explain complex things. A master! Thank you

@MusicMattersGB 6 месяцев назад

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@NomeDeArte Год назад

Love this videos, are really inspiring! Thank you so much for sharing, best regards from Argentina!

@MusicMattersGB Год назад

It’s a pleasure

@YouDoTheShoot Год назад

love these harmony vids man ...cheers

@MusicMattersGB Год назад

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@P3Drocket Год назад

Great video, thx 🎶

@MusicMattersGB Год назад

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@dan27music Год назад

Thank you for another interesting lesson.

@MusicMattersGB Год назад

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@jayducharme Год назад

Watching you work through these lessons is a delight. BTW, those G notes you started off with form the opening of the old hymn "Onward, Christian Soldiers" (usually with a little decoration in the second measure). Your end result is much more musically interesting.

@MusicMattersGB Год назад

That’s most kind.

@enriquematiasreimermillan5120 Год назад

Brilliant!

@MusicMattersGB Год назад

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@josephinebrown6631 Год назад

Thank you kindly🤍

@MusicMattersGB Год назад

A pleasure

@timdovecool7202 Год назад

Wao! What a lesson... thanks alot sir.Very informative.

@MusicMattersGB Год назад

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@leonhardeuler6811 Год назад

Bachs harmonization and variations of Dies sind die heilgen zehn Gebot (bwv 298, 635, 678, 679) are a very good example of this.

@superblondeDotOrg Год назад

Bach certainly never composed using roman numerals or tonal theory, which is a false theory of music. I believe Bach always harmonized using the Bass line (filling notes in upwards, not starting with melody line downwards)... if it happens to turn out that his inner voices or top voice is the same note and provides such an example, then that is a secondary result..

@superblondeDotOrg Год назад

In fact the solution shown in this video is Bach's typical starting bass line, {1}-{7}-{1}-{1} (using { }'s to notate as scale degrees)

@MusicMattersGB Год назад

In the Chorales Bach was harmonising the inherited Lutheran melodies but the figured bass approach from the bottom up is certainly the Baroque approach. Baroque composers thought figured bass rather than Roman Numerals but the latter is a very useful way for us to understand what is going on.

@MusicMattersGB Год назад

😀

@martinbennett2228 Год назад

It is really good how you achieve the result with simple related chords. At first sight I assumed you would be adding some more distant chords such as a secondary dominant seventh, but you show it is not necessary to risk it sounding awkward by trying to force the harmony this way.

@MusicMattersGB Год назад

Often simple is best.

@martinbennett2228 Год назад

@@MusicMattersGB In your hands, it seems straight forward, but actually not so easy to achieve. Nonetheless your video does help make it that little bit easier.

@MusicMattersGB Год назад

Glad it’s helpful.

@BernhardElsner Год назад

Thank you very much for this video. By the way, your tenor voice leading is an example where in the final cadence the leading note b does not go to c, and it works very well. A very famous example of repeated notes in the meoldy is the beginning of the second movement of Beethoven's symphony no.7.

@MusicMattersGB Год назад

Absolutely re the B. Beethoven 7 is a good example.

@TheOldgeezah Год назад

Reminds me of that fine hymn Praise my soul the King of Heaven. The idea of a falling sequence of chords and bass under a series of identical notes appeals to me. It gives a nice forward movement. I don't know if I'm odd but when I compose a piece I rarely have just a string of notes as a melody to begin with. I usually have an idea of the initial melody, some form of harmony and a bass line in mind before entering a note into my computer. It just seems to work for me.

@MusicMattersGB Год назад

That’s great.

@delituskivike2471 Год назад

Thanks Sir,good you try harmony using chromatics with same reapited bars

@MusicMattersGB Год назад

😀

@Moeen_Music Год назад

Thanks a lot, as an idea, can you please do a same video with the repeated notes in bass part? Should be fun :))

@MusicMattersGB Год назад

Okay

@lmrock Год назад

If you have lyrics to sing. Harmonize it with the solfege of the vowel sounds with voice leading. I think that's why it's called voice leading.

@MusicMattersGB Год назад

😀

@flaviobarbosa6064 Год назад

You should listen “Samba de uma nota só”, one-note samba. It’s a bossa nova song, that more than six note repetition, and it is simply astounding!!!!

@MusicMattersGB Год назад

Agreed

@telaim Год назад

Thank you very interesting as usual !! Just a question: In the second bar, why the the B doesn't resolve on the C?

@MusicMattersGB Год назад

The B doesn’t particularly need to resolve to the C

@milovargas1817 Год назад

One Note Samba by Tom Jobim is a good example.

@MusicMattersGB Год назад

Absolutely

@vincentedelmond5404 9 месяцев назад

repeated notes goes the tonic half note or one note down try the moonlight of Beethoven or feeling nothing more than feeling or something in the way of George Harrison see the repeated chords progression

@MusicMattersGB 9 месяцев назад

😀

@NomeDeArte Год назад

In sound engineering there's a say that goes "mixes are not finished, but abandoned", meaning that there is a point when the more you put, kind diminish the final product, not add it more quality. Can you maybe talk about the same idea with harmony? Because sometimes I feel that I can adding more passing notes, and PSR, and extensions, etc, but not necessarly I'm making the harmony works better, on the contrary, kinda muddy my original idea. Hope you get what I mean, and sorry if already there is a video about that on the channel. Just an idea, best wishes!

@MusicMattersGB Год назад

Good idea. Will plan something on those lines.

@isaacshaw1596 Год назад

Do you mind me asking what's happened to composer insights? Is it being left as is?

@MusicMattersGB Год назад

There is more recorded, we’ve just got to finish the editing on them.

@alanhowell3646 3 месяца назад

Can I ask you to explain how you harmonise notes that are not in the chord such as approach notes, enclosure, chromatic passing notes etc.

@MusicMattersGB 3 месяца назад

Notes are either harmony notes/ chord tones or inessential notes/ non-chord tones. The former belong to chords; the latter don’t.

@alanhowell3646 3 месяца назад

Yes I understand that but want to know methods of harmonising non-chord tones@@MusicMattersGB

@MusicMattersGB 3 месяца назад

@alanhowell3646 As soon as you harmonise a non-chord tone it’s no longer a non-chord tone.

@jakubr4634 Год назад

I understand it is doable when the repeating note is a fifth, but I tried to do it when it was a tonic and it gets harder (the plagal cadence can or has to be used). When the repeating tone is a third it looks almost impossible though.

@MusicMattersGB Год назад

There’s another video coming out soon focused on repeated tonics.

@MrGul Год назад

How come you don't resolve the B in the tenor voice to a C (the 3rd of the V chord to the 1st of the I chord) instead of ending like this on a I chord in root position with a doubled fifth?

@MusicMattersGB Год назад

There’s no particular reason for the B to resolve to C and a chord with a doubled 5th is perfectly acceptable.

@MrGul Год назад

@@MusicMattersGB Thanks for answering! My former music school taught us that the 3rd of a V chord should resolve to the 1st of a I chord even if the V chord doesn't have a 7th, and that doubling the root is the preferred option (unless there's an inversion) so that's why I wondered.

@MusicMattersGB Год назад

It’s often what happens but it doesn’t have to.