Context: https://i.imgur.com/6OO0HdG.png
I am new to composing and I understand how to build hype and create the feeling that "something huge" is going to happen very, very soon in the musical piece but then I just "fail to deliver" and move on with my piece and write more notes as best I can with my limited creativity and limited music theory knowledge.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aRBWDHE4g8
I watched this cadence video yesterday from "Music theory academy" but that has more to do with "resolving tension" which is similar but not quite the same thing as "creating an expectation" that something big or exciting will happen in the musical piece very soon.
Bach does it here @ 4:06 where it goes "orange ladder" then "purple ladder" then orange then purple then orange then payoff. The "payoff" is at 4:13 where he lets the listener hear a very cute, dainty and highly interesting sequence of notes.
Is that the "solution" for creating a monumental amount of anticipation or hype? You just create a very cute, dainty and highly interesting sequence of notes?
My favorite music theory and/or composer on YouTube is Rogier Harkema (922 subscribers) and in this video at 1:31 he graphs "intensity" on the vertical axis and "time" on the horizontal axis.
What do you do after you build a lot of intensity and anticipation for something climactic? How do I provide a climax without the piece being over and coming to a natural end-point? (for example in my piece at the top of the page, I don't want to end my piece after only 9 bars in 4/4 time signature)
As other people have explained to me, music is a "language" and my musical pieces that I write never "deliver" anything climactic because I don't understand what "climactic" means? Does it mean a cute, dainty and highly interesting sequence of notes? If so, I understand everything perfectly (but I suspect I'm wrong though).
Thank you for reading.
Submitted September 22, 2022 at 03:46PM by SignificantMeal1428 https://www.reddit.com/r/Learnmusic/comments/xl9pao/beginner_question_when_composing_what_do_you_do/?utm_source=ifttt
Javier Rodriguez
Thursday, September 22, 2022