Many people talk about the skills of composing music, and many people spend time on chords. There are also some people who write exactly what they feel. It is true that according to the classic positioning of the descending 5th chord circle, the melody will not be difficult to listen to no matter how you write it, but if you learn some other composition techniques, your melody may have a different world. Xiaosheng is here to make some comments, and I hope everyone can share their opinions. I kindly ask all the experts to correct the inappropriateness of my writing.

Pop song creation points:

1: There are lyrics first and music second.

2: The music comes first and then the lyrics.

Here I will only talk about the second situation, that is, the music comes first and then the lyrics.

One: Reflection. Just like when you are on a river and see your own shadow in the river.

For example: 33345 33321

In the staff, with 3 horizontal lines, you will find that if 345 is turned down 180 degrees, its melody line will match 321. The melody written in this way will not be scattered.

Two: Mold advance.

Molding is divided into strict molding and free molding.

Strict modularization requires that each melody interval is exactly the same. The melody lines should also be completely consistent. For example: 3323 2212

Free molding does not have this restriction. For example: 1123 3345 (between 1 and 2 is a whole tone, between 3 and 4 is a semitone, the intervals are different)

Three: Repeat.

Repetition is always the only method in music. From paragraph repetition to bar repetition, his shadow can be seen in almost every work. (Note that repetition is also the same degree of progression)

Four: Counterpart.

Art is all connected. Certain techniques in literature are completely applicable to music. In some poetic couplets, the last word of the first sentence is the first word of the second couplet. If put into music, it would be the last note of the first line and the first note of the second line. And so on.

For example: 123 312 234 465

Please note that the last note in front is the first note in the back. In Li Zongsheng's Ghostly Confusion, the technique of antithesis is used throughout. If you are interested, you might as well go home and dig out the score and take a look.

Five: As mentioned earlier, art is connected and borrows literary techniques. Here we borrow traditional Chinese painting techniques to see what it looks like.

1: The density is consistent. In Chinese paintings, if there are many trees in the middle, a lot of blank space must be left around. This way your eyes won't get tired. Similarly in music, if the rhythm part is very dense in the first few measures, you must write more long notes later. If the melody in the front is very ups and downs, then the melody in the back must be arranged more smoothly to play a balancing role.

2: There are deep and shallow. In traditional Chinese painting, you cannot use one color entirely in a painting. Even if it is black, it can be divided into dark black, jet black, light black, gray, etc. The same principle can also be put into music. If you use an ascending melody in the first two measures, such as: 1123 3345, it is best to use a descending or parallel melody in the following sections, such as 5442, etc. This will make people feel that the melody has ups and downs. , which is more comfortable to the ears and conforms to the laws of nature.

The most extreme example is Chen Sheng's "Keep the Sadness to Yourself". From the first to the second sentence at the beginning, the melody rises straight from bass 5 without turning to treble 1, and the interval span is a pure fourth. Octave. The third sentence begins to slowly decline, from high note 1 to bottom note 6, with an interval span of 8 degrees plus a minor third. It feels like the melody has great ups and downs, and all the emotions are expressed, and then the melody in the fourth sentence begins to stabilize.

Six: Change of tone.

Ultimately speaking, umlauts are rising and falling notes. Using some will give people a very fresh feeling and make their emotions more full. Whether a song uses pitch changes well depends largely on how well the person grasps the melody. Generally speaking, major keys are used to express bright colors, and minor keys are used to express sadness or tenderness. We can also lower the 3rd note of the major key by half a step to express sadness or tenderness.

In the minor key, it is absolutely correct to use #4 and #5 more often, because the ascending scale of the minor key itself includes #4 and #5. If you want to write a melody with a Jazz flavor, in addition to using syncopated notes in rhythm, using b3 and b7 is the only way to do it. In fact, this is also the unique scale of Jazz.

I would like to give a few examples to illustrate. In Luo Dayou's Criticism of Love, the third sentence of paragraph A uses the progression of #1 2 3, which gives people a sad feeling and is very fresh. In Li Quan’s The Color of Love (it seems to be the title of the song, I can’t remember clearly), he uses the melody progression of 5 6 7 #1, with four whole tones ascending continuously, which brings out the emotion to the extreme and also gives people A refreshing feeling. "Olive Tree" is a very classic old song. The author used #4 as a link between the past and the following, which has achieved very good results. Such as