For verse melodies, try combining downward-moving melodic shapes with an overall upward motion. In songwriting, you can only ever speak of generalizations. That’s a good thing, of course. Music would be boringly predictable if it meant simply following a set of rules. We know, for example, that most verse melodies tend to avoid an overabundant […]
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