For a person who is learning music by himself, all of this free education makes my heart melt with gratitude, thanks a bunch.

I just learned more about music in these 33 min than I have in the previous 56 years !

Look at humans. They spread knowledge around voluntarily. Teachers want to teach.

Yeah, I wish we had the internet when I was young.

Music is not the only thing I start with a tonic 😉🍸

moral of the story? Mozart does what the fuck he wants.

As a conductor, performer, writer of music, music educator, and theorist, I found this video to be an excellent guide for folks building melodies, even as a model that can refresh the professional. Sometimes it's excellent to review things like this to learn about different approaches to the creative process. I found the class melody to be quite interesting as well as innovative as far as their use of leaps in the consequent phrase followed with appropriate stepwise motion in the opposite direction. An overall excellent video tutorial.

Amazing content. Thank you so so much.

Look at all these clueless people in the comment section, thinking that music should be written "from the heart" without "following rules". How much music have you written, played, or studied?

Music theory is a FRAMEWORK; once you have internalized it, you can intuitively pick the melodies and progressions that best suit the story you're trying to convey—establishing tonality first for your emotional base, substituting a minor chord for a major or vice versa, shifting to an out-of-key chromatic chord to emphasize a certain emotion, adding tensions to... well, add tension and color, understanding the guide tones of your harmonic progression and how to employ them to create tension and release, understanding which notes in a scale lead to which, and a metric shitton more that I could just keep on going on and on about. You can even intentionally disregard it, at times.

There are certain things that you don't do in music because they just sound like shit to the human ear and have been established as such, and once you understand what these are, you keep going. But you NEED theory. Pretty much EVERY famous classical composer understood theory and manipulated it to their own tastes.

I've had to wait over seventy years to know this?
Should be part of any school curriculum!!!
(Thank you!)

So many people in this comment section seem to be regarding this as a formula that removes all creative process from writing a melody... maybe because they weren't paying attention, lack critical thinking, or just knee-jerk commented and left the video.
She didn't outline ANY hard rules at all. Not once did she say "you MUST follow this or your melody will suck". And even so, the process she gave basically boils down to this:

First you figure out where you want your melody to go. Then you figure out how to take your melody there.

Which isn't even remotely a formula, it's just a way of writing melodies that, face it, makes perfect sense.

I write my own melodies on my guitar and on my piano and I don't know anything about reading/writing music or these formulas. I only go by what sounds/feels good. This video has shown me what I was doing. I never thought about these concepts of tension and release before. Now I can understand better what it is that I was doing without even knowing it. I think its important to know the theories behind things because I have been stumbling across melodies for years. Now I think I might be able to compose something quicker especially when I get stuck In repetition and don't know where to go from there. I constantly find myself stuck with unfinished melodies. I believe this will help. Thanks for posting the video.

I am retired now, but I have just started to read music and play the piano.
I found your video informative.  I never understood Scale Degrees ;however, this has given me a much better understanding.   Thank you very much.
Terry Wright.

Fantastic mam, really loving it

My parents had to squeeze out extra money for me to take piano lessons back in the 60's. I started when I was 10 years old. By the time I got to lessons like this, I was paying TUITION in a 4 year University of which cost us Thousands of dollars. I can't believe my eyes when I see complained posted in some tutorials. Then I understand that anyone who has any complains are not here to learn music from the "C" scale on up. They want to be Jerry Lee Lewis in 2 weeks. lol However, with ALL the music I have been trained for, I still come back to lessons like this. I am a 65 year old Female Musician of over 50 years and here I am still learning and refreshing my knowledge. Thank You Very Much.

This is one of the best instructional videos on the internet, on any topic. A clear, well prepared, thorough, and direct explanation with useful and familiar examples. No extra self-promotional or sponsor mentions nonsense. No mugging for the camera, speaking of the top of the head, name-dropping, pitches to sell a course, or needlessly high resolution video. The truth, just the truth, and nothing but the truth. She's like the Beato with an attention span and more teaching experience. It's like the achievement of the promise of the internet as a force for the public good, before it became overrun with content farms. Nowadays, the internet needs an index page site that points straight to genuinely useful and on-point content like this. Otherwise it's hard to find.

The "bad" example of too many leaps actually sounds quite good in a creepy, horror context.
Awesome video however, thank you for the shared knowledge.

I was sincerely awed by this dissertation. Didn't know music had this underlying theory...it's magic !

This video deserves 100M views.
But people cant assess duly

I’ve been waiting for such a clear and concise teaching on the creation of melodies.  Thank you.