not my melody, just a few things to talk about

Here we have a musical score written on music paper or a sheet of music paper.  We have the treble and bass clefts  with the key signature of A major and in the first measure, only, the time signature of 4/4 time.  Each quarter note gets one beat and there being four beats to the measure.   Note that the first measure has two beats, not four.  And that there is a half rest in the bass cleft.  There is a small p in the third measure, which tells you how you will play those descending notes emotionally.  This is called Dynamics in music.  The small p stands for the Italian pianissimo and means that you would play this softly.  Notice the mf in the first measure, this also means play the piano moderately soft.  I consider these to be music trivia, because different instrumentalist play around with these interpretations.

Writing a melody. Creating flats and sharps.

At this point in time it would be good to create a little single line melody.  Choose any scale but a scale written in the key of C has no sharps or flats so that may be easy.  Actually all the scales are easy if you remember that music is built with half steps meaning the key right next to it on the piano this is easy to see.  If you want to go a whole step you must add a half step between the half steps to make a whole step.  If you want to sharpen the note, go up a half step and thus you make the note sharp and if you want to flatten the note you go down one half step and that puts the note in a flat key.


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I spent the morning on the rec hall keyboard and settled on this melody

1  +  2  +  3  +  4  +  /  1  +  2  +  3  +  4  +   /  1  +  2  +  3  +  4  +   /  1  +  2  +  3  +  4  +

c#d   e  d  c#b  a           b  c#d  c#b                   a  b  c#b   a  g#f#          b  c#d   b  a
 
There are three sharps,  that gives you the A major scale.  Next lesson I will write this melody out on a music sheet for you.  And we will play around with it.  Changing the time signature and the scale signature.  Now the melody is written 4 beats to the measure and each quarter note carries one beat.