This isn't a song, it's more like a series of exercises for me to explore melody and harmony.

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Sun, Feb 19, 15:00 - 15:30. Did other things this morning so I'm starting now, a bit later than usual.

What I want to do this week is less of a song and a bit more academic - I want to learn more about voice leading and counterpoint. I find that I'm pretty boring when it comes to trying to do something else to contrast a melody and I just kind of make it up. That works, I guess, but doesn't really cement in why it works so I would like to practice things a bit more formally.

This week's song might not really be a song as a result… I'll see. I'm not really a big music theory student or anything so I'm not really even sure how this will all turn out.

Here's some terminology and definitions.

Cantus Firmus: The fixed melody. One phrase long, terminated by a melodic cadence.

Counterpoint: A second voice created according to specific principles. First-species counterpoint is one-note counterpoint.

Counterpoint focuses primarily on tonal construction (rather than rhythmic construction).

Sun, Feb 19, 16:00 - 17:45. I ended up stopping to watch Bob Ross for a half-hour. When I stopped, I had 8 bars of cantus firmus written.

The leap from 2 voice leading to 4 voice really lost me because the book I am reading whent straight to talking about analyzing existing songs rather than building from 2 voices to 3 voices. That's pretty annoying to me.

I am not a music theorist but I'm guessing that a lot of chord progressions have voice leading kind of "built in" to them.

Bar 32 onwards, I'm looking more at chords:

Bass root:

I vi ii V . I VI III V

Minor:

i VI III vii^o

Total time: 2h 15m. I could have done a real song in this time.