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Listen - Discover - Explore - Create - Music tools & articles help you understand the creative process with illustrations & music clips

How Music Works

"Whether you want to make your own music, play someone else's music or just listen, knowing how music works gives you a better experience and helps you understand what's going on."

GCSE music resources	AQA GCSE music resources
Structure in Western Classical music 1600-1899	Music For Film
Changing directions in Western classical music f1900 +	Music For Dance
Popular music in context	Music For Special Events
India, Africa, Fusion	Orchestral Landmarks
Popular song since 1960	Learning Trail Forum

Note Canvas tool

"Make your own music by drawing notes and playing around with sounds, on the Note Canvas tool"

Rhythm

"Make your own rhythms, and interact with rhythm to find out how it works"
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Music Tracks Illustrate Creative Rhythmic Techniques.

Using a rhythmic seed in Moving Away	Moving Away: rhythms of speech in the chorus
Tiriba and kuku rhythms on the udu in Moving Away	Rhythm in Moving Away
Promise Land: making things fit	Promise Land: the role of the voice
Promise Land: a brass riff transformed	Promise Land: brass riff and drums
Promise Land: stretching the time	Promise Land: combining elements
Promise Land: combining and contrasting	Promise Land: building up the mix
Promise Land: beauty and the beast
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Jazz: understanding syncopation	What Is Syncopation
Backing vocals: picking up the pace	Rock and role of the bass and rhythm section
Guitars and udu: sharing rhythms	Kora 2: sharing rhythms
Dennis Rollins: trusting your ear

Harmony

"Learn about harmony by creating your own harmonies, listening to harmony, and changing it yourself"

Music Tracks Illustrate Creative Harmonic Techniques

Harmony and form in 'Moving Away'	Harmony in Emerging Dances
Why this chord for the beginning of Emerging Dances?	Harmony in Where will it take you?
Harmonic Tutorials
Turning a note into a chord	Turning a chord into a chord sequence
The sounds of keys and scales	Playing with the pentatonic scale
Cycles of harmony	Jazz and the art of listening
Important intervals in the pentatonic scale	Whole tones in the pentatonic scale
Playing with cycles of harmony	Playing the changes
Taking the bass line and building the song	Making many songs out of one
Can classical music and jazz talk to each other?	The magic of the blues
Jazz Piano Giants
The piano: electric keyboards	Jazz piano giants: McCoy Tyner
Gareth Williams: experimenting with chords	Gareth Williams: jazz influences
Gareth Williams: from rock and blues to jazz	Gareth Williams: experimenting with chords
Jazz piano giants: Bill Evans	Jazz piano giants: Herbie Hancock
Jazz piano giants: Herbie Hancock	Maya Jobarteh: Picking up the guitar
Seb Rochford: building a personal style	Byron Wallen: you only need five notes

Melody

"Find out about melodies and how they work by taking melodies apart and creating your own melodies"

Music Tracks Illustrate Creative Melodic Techniques

Weaving melodies in Where will it take you?	Instruments and melodies in Moving Away
Instruments and melodies in Where will it take you?
Melodic Creation Techniques
Improvisation and composition	Turning a chord into a melody
What’s hocketing?	Mixing melodies
Kora 2: free play on a pattern	Two koras in conversation
Two guitars working together	Two koras: taking the lead
How many tunes can you hear?	Making the tune a conversation
Acoustic guitar: the little notes	Mixing singing styles
Rock and role of the bass and rhythm section	Getting the bass and rhythm right
Reggae in the bass-line

Texture

"How do you make a musical texture? Make and interact with textures to find out."

Texture Creation Techniques

Creating orchestral textures	Instrumentation and texture
Discovering orchestral effects	Choosing the instruments of the orchestra
Getting the right sound from an orchestra	Starting with the bassline

Composer Tool

Explore Music

"Find out how you can use SoundJunction's Explorer tool to get inside music"

Instrument Profiles

Making Sounds	All About Voices	All About Woodwinds	All About Percussion
All About Brass	Individual instruments
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Voice	violin	viola	cello
double bass	bassoon	Flute & Piccolo	Saxophone
Clarinet & Bass Clarinet	oboe	trumpet	trombone
French Horn	Percussion	tuned percussion	xylophone
marimba	temple blocks	timpani	kora
Udu	Harp	All About The Saxophone

The trumpet: how do you play it?

The trumpet: being a part of the instrument

Individual Musicians

Profiles of Musicians illustrating properties of above instruments

Composing & Remixing

"How do musicians compose music? Where are the ideas from? What do they do with them?
How do you end up with a piece that works?"

Music Creation Techniques

Composer Forum	Composer Tool Help
Creating Music Yourself	Create music in SoundJunction
Creating orchestral textures	Improvisation and composition
synchronizing the rhythms	Composing: does a song need words?
Where will it take you? team selection	Improvising over twos, threes &fours
Mixing Melodies	Ideas For Composing
Making the tune a conversation	Dynamics: shouts and whispers
Getting the right sound from an orchestra	The fifth dance
More dances emerging	Games: find the rhythm!
Composing: juggling the elements	Composing: using your resources
Perfect fourths in the pentatonic scale	Perfect fifths in the pentatonic scale
Cycles of harmony	Playing with cycles of harmony
The seed rhythm: now you hear it, now you don’t	The SoundJunction compositions
Composing with a sense of direction	Adding some rhythm
The crucial role of the bass	remixing and harmonising rhythm
Intro To An Intro	Form & Structure
Games: musical jigsaw	How many tunes can you hear?
Games: fix the hocket!	Composing: using your resources
Composing: a love-hate relationship	Composing: inspiration or invitation?
Tools of the composing trade	Composition: sketching a musical landscape
Discovering modern jazz	Inspiring voices
Getting started on a composition	Composing: where do you start?
How to create music in SoundJunction	Getting started on a composition
All about Remixing

Music Artists Demonstrate Creation Techniques

Colin Emmanuel: using computer programmes	Colin Emmanuel: the role of the remixer
An introduction from Jason Yarde	David Horne: how he goes about composing
Jason Yarde: learning on stage	Jason Yarde: out into the world
Jason Yarde: Axe and Sax	Clare Finnimore: going to music college
David Hockings: making the right choice in higher ed	Gareth Williams: from rock and blues to jazz
Gareth Williams: translating classical to jazz	Julian Siegel: music - a family affair
Gareth Williams: Doctor Jazz	Gareth Williams: translating classical to jazz
Gareth Williams: from rock and blues to jazz	Julian Siegel: always for the music
Julian Siegel: in search of the lost chord	Tuning in to the sax giants
Big band traditions: Duke Ellington	Duke Ellington: a symphonic jazz that swings
Duke Ellington: a natural leader	The double bass: gigging around
Tunde Jegede: getting the idea for Moving Away	Jegede: where do the ideas come from?
James MacMillan: composing an opera	Composer: Tunde Jegede
Composer: David Horne

Music Tracks Illustrate Creation Techniques

Where Will You Go?: the bolong breakbeat	Where Will You Go?: creating the bass line
Using click tracks in Where Will You Go?	Where Will You Go?: adding the percussion
Where Will You Go?: panning	Where Will You Go?: drums and beats
Emerging Dances: suspending the pace	Use of rhythm in Emerging Dances
Time signatures in Emerging Dances	Mind the gap: adding rests in the seed rhythm
Where will it take you? team selection	Jazz harmony in Where will it take you?
Why this chord for the beginning of Emerging Dances?	Promise Land: making things fit
Extending the introduction in Where will it take you?	Extending the introduction in Where will it take you?
Form and structure of Moving Away	Weaving melodies in Where will it take you?
Getting started on a composition	Instruments and melodies in Where will it take you?
Where will it take you? team selection	All about Cleveland Watkiss' Origin Mix
All about Colin Emmanuel's Where Will You Go? mix	All about Byron Wallen's Moving where it dances
All about Dennis Rollins' Promise Land	All about Johnny Panic's Merged Dances

European Music

Medieval Music	Renassance Music	Baroque Music
Classical Music	Romantic Music	Modern Music
British Music	Russian Music	German & Austrian Music
French Music

Africa

Improvisation in the African soundworld	Kora music in Gambian society
Slave traffic gives birth to new music	Development of rap starts in New York
From hymns to hip hop	Music & Dance
The First Sound	What is a griot?
Music On The Move	Different countries - different music?

The Americas

Emergence of blues: telling it like it is	Jazz around the world – introduction
New York grabs the mic	Emergence of reggae: Jamaica rocks steady stands tall
World music as protest – We Shall Overcome	Classical USA
Jazz Greats	The Tango

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