Improvising around a melody
I can improvise around a simple melody.
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- Year 9
Improvising around a melody
I can improvise around a simple melody.
Copyrighted materials: to view and download resources from this lesson, you’ll need to be in the UK and
Lesson details
Key learning points
- Our melody is an unusual length (14 bars), and has an anacrusis. The song is in the key of G major, which includes F#.
- When improvising, we should use notes from the key of the music. In this song, we use the G major scale.
- One strategy for improvisation is to use target notes.
- When we are improvising more freely, we can use other strategies to help us to structure our improvisation.
Keywords
Anacrusis - an anacrusis is when a melody starts before beat 1
Scale - a scale is a set of notes
G major scale - the G major scale is a scale in the key of G major, including F#
Common misconception
There are 'rights' or 'wrongs' in improvisation.
While there are rules that help us improvise effectively, a big part of learning to improvise is experimenting and seeing what works and what doesn't. Be willing to make 'mistakes' and don't fixate on doing it perfectly first time.
Equipment
A DAW or other suitable compositional tool or instrument.
Licence
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