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> Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. .... 100% That's certainly a revealing example. TTLS is entirely melody, and the article says basically nothing about melody.
by BigTTYGothGF 11d ago
> Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. .... 100%
That's certainly a revealing example. TTLS is entirely melody, and the article says basically nothing about melody. At a stretch you could say "the article talks about the major scale, TTLS uses notes from a major scale" and if your conclusion is "that's why I like it", then you should feel the same way about any permutation of the notes in TTLS, or indeed anything you get from hitting the white notes on a piano one at a time.
- chrisjj 10d ago> the article says basically nothing about melody Its 13 mentions of melody sufficed for me.
- BigTTYGothGF 10d agoMost of those are variable names. The rest: > Why a melody wants to land where it lands is still mostly opaque to me > A key, its diatonic chords, a progression, those chords broken into an arpeggio one note at a time, and a melody that sticks to the scale > Change the melody array to anything at all and it will still fit The first part of TTLS (in C) is: C C G G A A G F F E E D D C. Let's follow the guidance of this last part and change the "melody array"; for neatness we can alphabetize it: A A C C C D D E E F F G G G. Now that you understand melody, please tell me why even though it "still fit"s it doesn't sound as nice.