Uploaded July 2023 | Updated September 2026, 41 seconds ago

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The single greatest tool in composition, regardless of Genre, is Variations. Creating similar but different iterations of the initial idea stretches what we have a very long way. This also helps us bring in a second idea that we can tie with the first so that they feel like belong together.

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00:00:00 Intro
00:01:32 Genre
00:05:01 Stuck in a Loop
00:06:12 Variation
00:08:45 Arrangement
00:10:49 Do The Variation
00:13:08 New Instrument
00:16:07 Call & Response
00:22:41 Requires Practice
00:22:53 Variations
00:24:20 Same but Different
00:27:43 Second Iteration
00:31:57 Pattern Matching
00:32:41 Third Iteration
00:35:39 Insta Countermelody!
00:36:07 Fourth Iteration
00:38:22 A New Part
00:40:44 Automating Articulation
00:44:38 Four & a halfth Iteration
00:49:42 Seeing How Far We Have Come
00:51:28 The New idea
00:52:25 Introducing
00:54:07 Chords from a Melody
00:58:29 Iterating
01:00:54 Bringing Together
01:03:56 Embellishing
01:06:57 Update
01:08:00 More Embellishing
01:08:51 Tension & Release
01:09:15 DeBlanding
01:14:23 Integrating
01:15:21 Recap on Variation
01:16:33 Homework
01:17:50 Advice
01:22:06 Beginning of Genre
01:22:39 Conclusion