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The most important aspect to study in melody writing is probably your intervals. In Western music, we use 12 notes in semitone intervals, in other cultures they have quarter tones and microtonal ...

It turns out one of the most popular Christmas songs is also a useful tool for teaching budding musicians about notes and intervals. Just because it’s Christmas, it doesn’t mean the music lessons have ...

This video will take you through each interval of the scale using a very smart method of… yes, pop songs and film scores that happen to feature those intervals. Works perfectly, though. This YouTuber ...