Now that you know how to create melodies using a single voice in the chord (top, middle, or bottom), it is time to expand our palette with other voices in the chords (and, hopefully, make our melodies a bit more interesting!)

Multi-voice melodies are simply melodies that use different voices from the chord for their content. They have a bit more freedom of movement than our single-voice melodies did.

Note: Please understand that our melody will be a single note at a a time. Melodies are monophonic, meaning "single voice". The "multi-voice" designation here refers to chord tones used, NOT multiple melodies played concurrently. 

When we are constructing a multi-voice melody, bear these two things in mind:

1. Change voices inside of each measure

2. stay on the same voice when switching chords to add shape to the melody.

Let's use our same chord progression example from 5.2:

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE CHORD ORGANIZER

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE 5.3 ORGANIZER

For project 5.3, do the following:

// Record the drum, bass, chords, and melody

• Create a drum groove

  • Record four measures of a drum groove 

• Create a bass track

  • Record a performance of the moving bass line

• Create a keyboard track

  • Record a performance of chordal part

• Create a synth track

  • Record a performance of the multi-voice melody

• Quantize the performance for the drum, bass, keyboard, and melody to the correct subdivision

• Trim the ends of the notes in the bass line, chord part, and melody to match the organizers

• Submit project 5.3 LASTNAME to Schoology.