Melody Patterns

Melodies can be created from scale is you know the harmonic formula. Using an Akousunesis pure or keyed modal scales, your able to put modal meaning to the harmonic formula giving you many options. Here we're going to investigate how to use pure modal scales to create melodies. 

Discovering all the mode of our original scale.

You can write down all the modes of the original scale by taking the bass note and moving it to the high position. This is not a key transposition exercise, you use this to find different emotional feeling for any melody staying within a tonality. 

These are modes of an original scale, they are note pure modal which represent one harmonic formula in terms of the seven natural modes. Here we're going to produce six unique harmonic formulas in which all may be represented with another seven pure modal scales.

The original scale has the harmonic formula 1 -3 4 -5 5 -7

In the key of C, this will be the notes, C, Eb, F, Gb, G and  Bb. By taking the low base note and iterating six times, one iteration for every note of the scale, we're able to find all the mode having different harmonic formulas.

Original Scale:  C, Eb, F, Gb, G, Bb

1 -3 4 -5 5 -7

Inversion 1:   Eb, F, Gb, G, Bb, C

1 2 -3 3 5 6

Inversion 2: F, Gb, G, Bb, C, Eb

1 -2 2 4 5 -7

Inversion 3: Gb, G, Bb, C, Eb, F

1 -2 3 -5 6 7

Inversion 4: G, Bb, C, Eb, F, Gb

1 -3 4 +5 -7 7 

Inversion 5: Bb, C, Eb, F, Gb, G

1 2 4 5 +5 6 

Inverting Melodies

To invert a melody, you take the bass note and move it to the high position. Let's invert the following finger placement exercise.

Original Melody: C > RT1 M33 R4 <M3 >R4 P5

Inversion 1:  E > RT11 I-2 <T1 >I-2 M-3 P+5

Inversion 2:  F < RT1 I-7 >T1 I2 R5 P77

Inversion 3:  E > RT1 I-2 T-3 I+5 R11 P-2

Inversion 4:  F > RI1 T2 I5 M77 R1 M7