Musical Composition: Create A Colorful Melody

We all can appreciate the color and variety of great music

Doxter S says: Creating a great musical composition is like painting a colorful image for the auditory mind.  Music intends to convey a message, instilling emotion and meaning into there heart of the listener. We create great music using a combination of melody and rhythm, tempo and pitch, and words.

The most familiar American musical style, the 12-bar blues, is divided into sections. This conveys a sense of call and response. Most popular music is built up using sections. These sections are commonly know as introduction, verse, bridge, chorus, and outro.

When creating a great song it is important to make each section distinct from the others. This will add variety and notify the listener (and members of the band) where we are and where we are going. The ability to make otherwise similar sections sound unique and refreshing is a useful skill in music creation.

I selected the image for this post because it illustrates the structure for a great song. These homes are on the coast of Grand Cayman Island. They are all essentially of the same design. Progressing from the front (intro) through the middle sections (verse, bridge, chorus), and ending in the back (outro), just like  great song should sound.

Adding varying colors for each section makes similar sections distinctly different, which make the whole complex much more interesting and enjoyable. This visual analogy should help a would be composer think about that next new song that’s been incubating in there back of the mind, just waiting to come to fruition when the time comes to start writing it down and recording.

Doxter S invites every one of you to join him on this great adventure into music creation.