Hey it's Andrew Huang.
Let me know in the comments if you figured out what I was playing.
You've probably heard this melody hundreds of times, but I really stretched and squashed
the timing of notes and added some sad chords underneath.
Let me perform it again for you with the lyrics.
Happy Birthday to you.
Happy Birthday to you.
Happy Birthday, dear Andrew.
Happy Birthday to you.
By the way it is my birthday this weekend.
And I'm celebrating with a massive giveaway so stick around to the end of the video for
more on that.
So the melody has the exact same notes as Happy Birthday, and they're in the exact same
order.
But the rhythm is completely different.
If you're a classical music buff you can probably tell I modelled this rendition after the famous
Prelude In E Minor by Chopin.
That's the one that goes like this: In this video from a couple weeks ago, I played
Happy Birthday in a really weird way by having the notes jump in to all different octaves
and a lot of people didn't recognize it until after I told them what the song was.
Some people could tell it was happy birthday on their first listen though.
And a lot of those folks said it was the rhythm, rather than the notes that gave it away.
So today was kind of like the reverse of that experiment.
I didn't change any of the pitches, but I did completely demolish the rhythm.
Just like you're going to demolish the like button.
And here's something I want to point out about writing music.
A lot of people get fixated on the notes.
What notes am I going to sing?
And the notes are important, but equally, or maybe more important to shaping your original
melody, is the rhythm.
Let's look at the absolute basics of song writing and say that a pretty normal melody,
a couple lines from a song, would probably be 8 bars long and span no more than two octaves.
End to end there are 25 notes in two octaves.
But most popular music uses one of our common Major or Minor keys.
So within that same two octave range there are actually only 15 not options.
The melodies of many of history's greatest hits have less than 15 different notes in
them.
Look at our rhythmic possibilities though.
1 e and a 2 e and a 3 e and a 4 e and a.
That's the actual industry standard, professional lingo for doing rhythm.
Each syllable in that count is a 16th note.
Also known as a semiquaver.
And that's often the fastest increment you'll use when composing a melody.
16 of those in a bar and we said our melody might be 8 bars long.
That's 128 possible slots for you to put.
Put your 15 notes.
So much more choice when it comes to rhythm than pitch.
So let me turn this into a songwriting tip for you.
If you're stuck for your melody, ignore notes for a bit, and just try clapping.
If you find something that's catchy to clap, that's an amazing jump-off point, and you
can start filling in notes from there.
After all, you're probably dealing with fewer than 15.
Okay so back to my saddy death day.
I'm celebrating this year with presents, and they are presents that I will be giving to
you.
This was one of the best years of my life.
And you all were a huge part of why it was such a good year, so I just want to say Thank
You.
I'm going to be doing multiple giveaways, every week for the entire month of April.
There's some tech stuff, there's a lot of music equipment.
I'm kicking things off with this ASUS ZenWatch 3.
Actually I have two of these to give away.
Also from ASUS a ZenPhone 3.
These came courtesy of Best Buy, so Thank You to them.
I'm going to post selfies with these on Instagram.
If you want to enter to win, follow me on Instagram.
@AndrewIsMusic and post a comment on the photos that have these in them.
That's all you have to do.
Follow me.
Leave a comment on the thing you want.
And I'm going to be announcing tons more exciting stuff, basically every 3 or 4 days this month,
so stay tuned to this channel, stay tuned to my Instagram.
Hope you win something.
Thank you so much for watching.
And Happy Birthday to me.
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