counterpoint - lesson 1: melody

When I found out that there isn't anything about counterpoint on youtube, I thought it would have been nice to upload an INTRODUCTION TO THE ART OF COUNTERPOINT. It wasn't prepared, so it's a bit slow and there are a few mistakes here and there, but if you are interested in approaching counterpoint these videos will help you a lot. Unfortunately in some of the videos I had problems recording my computer screen, so the audio is a bit late. Anyway, I hope you enjoy the lessons!
Lesson 1: how to write a melody

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[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

[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!

[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 ;)

[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.