1. Listen to this melody
- What instrument do you hear?
- Does the melody tend to skip around a lot or are the notes fairly close together?
- Is there a variety of note lengths?
- Are there rests?
- Are there any repeated sections?
- How can you describe these sections?
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2. Open Finale Notepad
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3. Click Continue
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4. Title your project "Mylastname Project 3"
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5. Select one of the following instruments
- Flute
- Oboe
- Violin
- Electric Guitar
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6. Select C Major for the key and 4/4 for the time signature
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7. Plan out your melody
- If the melody needs to be 24 measures and ABA form, then how many measures are in each of the three sections?
- Think about how these sections can be different?
- Do the pitches start high and go low, or stay in the middle?
- Do you want the first section to be louder than the middle?
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8. Make sure that your composition STARTS and ENDS on C.
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9. Compose your melody, using the playback button to check to see if your melody sounds good to you.
Hints:
- Begin and end your melody on C.
- Try to keep all the notes on the staff or very close to it.
- Move either stepwise or small skips
- If you do skip, resolve with a step in the opposite direction
- Rhythmically, only 4 beats will fit in each measure
- Use combinations of half notes, quarter notes and eighth notes only.
- Add dynamics to indicate volume
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10. Make sure that you are using very few rests.
Hints:
- If you do not complete a measure, Finale Notepad will fill in the rest of the measure with rests.
- Try to avoid this by completing each measure with 4 full beats of sound.
- Use a small rest at the end of each section to distinguish between sections.
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11. Once you've entered all the notes, you must delete all the measures at the end of the piece. You can do this by
- selecting the "Mass Mover" tool (looks like a little box),
- selecting all the measures you want to delete, and
- hitting delete.
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12. Save your project to the public folder
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13. Begin evaluating and giving
feedback for your assigned partner's project. You will also
recieve a grade for the completion of your partner's project, so give
them good feedback.
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