My guitar teacher has been teaching me how to play classical music and i find it pretty cool, but there is one problem. I would like to create something myself. I mean i know how to make a song with chords and using a chord progression and i could make a lead part for it, but when it comes to classical music i dont know how to put it together. Does a classical composer use chords in a certain key to find the notes they want to use or do they use scales in a certain key? So if any one knows how to compose a classical song (on the guitar) please explain to me the steps.
2007-09-28 14:48:58 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music ➔ Classical
The solution is looking at you. Study the pieces you are playing and figure out for yourself what the composer did to put them together. The answer is a little bit of both and more. Certainly chords are part of the equation, certainly scales are too. As you study, look a the individual phrases, and how they are structured in terms of both harmony and melody. Then look at how the phrases are linked and how the musical ideas are used in each phrase and how they relate to each other. Ask your teacher for help in doing what you are trying to do.
This forum is way too limited for anybody to give you the basics of composition. It is a lifelong study. Writing songs with chords and a melody gives you a great place to start. I wish you the best at it, beacause once you get started, you'll be hooked.
2007-09-28 17:13:41 · answer #1 · answered by glinzek 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Like Glinzek said, this forum is not the place to teach composition. He gave great advice and he's an addition to it: your guitar teacher isn't the 1st person I would go for help, take a composition class.
If you're in college right now, this is the best place to take advantage of all the resources available to you. The composition teacher will allow you to apply theory (I'm assuming you've taken all your theory?) in your writing.
What your guitar teacher can help with is help you understand what is physically possible and impossible. Certain composers who try to write for the guitar write non-idiomatic works (like some of Castelnuovo-Tedesco's pieces!). Others, like Leo Brouwer, write music that fits in our hands perfectly (he's a performer, teacher and composer).
I recommend you study Bach (the lute suites),Tarrega, Sor, Aguado, Emilio Pujol, Dyens, Koshkin, Domeniconi, Brouwer, etc.
If you are not in college, maybe you could sign up for some evening classes at your local college or community college. Take your theory classes 1st BEFORE taking a composition class. You need some theory knowledge 1st.
Good luck and I hope one day I'll be playing your music! ;-)
2007-09-29 02:58:18 · answer #2 · answered by hartwell 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
every composer is different but you would probably find it easier to start off with a melody (single notes only) and then "flesh" it out with chords and a bass line afterwards.
2007-09-28 15:03:06 · answer #3 · answered by brian777999 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
go to the library
2007-09-28 14:52:40 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋