This course covers 13 melodic devices you can use to expand and improve your melodic ideas. Firstly we cover techniques already built into ableton midi clip editor such as rhythmic diminution/augmentation, retrograde, inversion and transposition.
Then we cover more complex techniques such as sequence, modal change, interval/contour contraction/expansion, chordal skips, fragment and more.
Finally, we demonstrate how to create chords from your melodies and an analysis of how other composers use these techniques.
