counterpoint - lesson 1: melody

[Ark4evah]

What software is that? Is ot free??

[danda1994]

Thanks for the great videos! What program are you using?

[cesartorresguitarra]

Thank you so much, its so clear, and so inspiring, thank you for your great work!

[claudiobassist]

qué pena que no esté en español!

[FilmComposeRaHoppe]

Hi, first of all many thanks for this lessons. Now I am practising on this, preparing for admission exams at the universities. Is their a chance that I could send you what I have practised, so that somebody can tell me where I made mistakes...? would be really amazing

[Kehlsteinhaus7]

i cant hear anything your saying, sorry mate

[wblakesx]

there certainly are variations from the core. but so much of the core is still bades on voice leading, and there is advanced voice leading too. plus if you gaze deeply into this you may find it is more flexible and informative than it may appear on the surface. a good study of harmony, voice leading, counterpoint is two years+ ; during which time one learns so many supporting skills, and internalizes so many core patterns that one is well enriched. some day when you have nothing better to do ...

[Urisihapai]

Are you Russian? Thank you, this well help my composing.

[Itsvideotime]

SPEAK UP!

[SecondAgeOfReason]

Thank you so much for teaching counterpoint and fugue! This is exactly what I want to learn and there's little instruction for writing fugues outside of music majors

[Jeremiahdvorak1]

Why is the audio so low?

[RICKCRITT]

@Togdburco One more comment of clarification, jazz musicians have built upon traditional harmony and melody. Some early counterpoint rules have been abandoned by all modern composers and improvisers. Modern meaning, even before the 20th century.

[nitinmishra76]

The sound quality is very very low. I can hardly hear anything.

[marcostrada5]

Sorry for my english? Sti cazzi, Giova!

[dwayne515]

thank you so much for these videos! theyre brilliant :)

[JackBlair2]

@Togdburco Jazz musicians didn't break rules any more rules than anyone else did.

[hopelesslyinlovedu]

thank you very much for making this kind of knowledge available for non-musicians (: I love Bach and want to know him better.

[newFranzFerencLiszt]

me le guardo tutte! ho sempre voluto imparare a comporre... si sa mai che un giorno...

[kyanhpham]

Thank you very much for your sharing!

[MrMusicomane]

Grazie mille per i video, molto utili. Solo una correzione per quanto riguarda l'Inglese: per "big jump" intendi sicuramente "big steps" e per "equillibrated" e' piu' adatto dire "well balanced" tanto per fartelo sapere.Spero di offendere, non e' mia intenzione.

Long live to counterpoint :-)

[brono25]

What is this program you're using? or what is the best program for practicing counterpoint? Ive been using garageband but its not very notation friendly.

[swjazz7]

@Togdburco counterpoint is the rule of perfection of voices motion. First you study it. Then you break it. Of course you can do without, but on a course of a lifetime, it helps for unlimited creation. All these 70s rock band were done by the age of 40. Why? because they didn't get the proper training to fuel their creativity long enough. They lived on teenage energy, then nothing. And worst, they don't have the ability to re-adapt to something new. 40 is when an artist reaches is pic...

[TheForestHedgehog]

thank you

[BluBeep]

Your english is fine and your vids are awesome!

Thanks for taking the time to make these!

[Xichomeh]

Thank You Very Much ,Sir.

I really appreciate your explanations

Best wishes from Mexico!

[gabgarcia7]

wat kind of program in your computer u have?? which one u r using????

[artofcounterpoint]

@Togdburco These rules started to be broken much before: the music of Bach and Vivaldi is full of tritones, Debussy's is full of parallel fourths and fifths. It's just a style of composing, if you don't like it don't study it or - better - change it according to your taste (Ellington's music is full of counterpoint). Don't forget that this language (like jazz or metal) was revolutionary at the time, breaking the rules of late medieval music. It's like studying jazz language in 26th century ;)

[Curly4232]

@artofcounterpoint You are absolutely right. And not just Debussy but R. Strauss used parallel 5ths and 8ths. He broke the rules a lot. Many famous composers have broken the rules of counterpoint. However, to know when it's okay to break the rules you must first understand the rules. It's sad that so many people have forgotten the rules of counterpoint when even in this day and age they are quite useful for musicians and artists. By the way, I use Finale as well :)

[TheKeiouki]

thank you very much

[pragmaphi]

Thank you for sharing, your efforts are so appreciated.

[jacky25511]

thank you so much!

i'm learning counterpoint and i'm 12

... can you make more?

[dominicjmcmahon]

i love you

[pipeorganse]

Grazie mille per condividere la sua compenza!

[artofcounterpoint]

@pipeorganse grazie a te per il commento! I'm not a teacher, just a musician that loves music theory

[Airvtz]

thank you so much for these tutorials, they help a lot! :D, im very interested in learning counterpoint and harmony as well

[rajsmile2009]

Thanks a tons.....you are my guru now :-)

have been looking around lot over the years and hardly understood..but these been simple and great....

Please don't stop to this...continue the lessons..i'm sure you will...

Long live...

[artofcounterpoint]

@rajsmile2009 thank you, I tried to make it as simple as I could. I've posted 14 lessons so far and I thought they were too many!

[RockHardPianist]

@artofcounterpoint Never too many lesson videos!  Thank you for this

[Composer19691]

Dude, thanks for posting. I've been checking for counterpoint lessons here for a while and glad to see someone took the initiative to put some up. I'll be watching all of them. Thanks!

[artofcounterpoint]

@billmakedones thank you! Sorry for the low volume, but now I don't have time to upload everything again... try with headphones or external speakers