WRITE A GREAT MELODY with this Formula | Sentence Form in Music Composition

Today we’re talking about my favorite musical form, the Sentence! 📚 Many of the ideas in this video come from my favorite music book of all time: Analyzing Classical Form by William Caplin Learning this form helped me to compose music by allowing me to write melodies and themes with a good shape and satisfying arc. Learn how to write a melody using the Sentence form to improve your composition, songwriting, and film scoring. So many books on form talk about the Period as if it’s the only way to structure a melody, but if you look at real music you quickly realize that that’s not the case. Thanks to Arnold Schoenberg and William Caplin, we have a powerful form that is concise, easy to understand and use, and full of potential for writing great music for film, video games, and TV. If you haven’t seen Part I about the Period Form yet, check it out here: 🥳 Check out my new course Pillars of Composition! 🚀 LINKS 🏛 My new composition course ➔ 📫 Join my newsletter for updates and more ➔ 🎼 Early access, exclusive content and more on Patreon ➔ ☕️ Buy me a coffee ➔ 🎓 Private lessons ➔ _____________________________________ FOR MUSICIANS 🎶 ScoreClub - *OUTSTANDING* composition courses including “Orchestrating the Line” which completely changed my approach to writing music. Master the Score 🎻 20th Century Orchestral Writing - 🎚 Mixing Cinematic Music - 💥 Hybrid Orchestral Composition and Sound - 🤖 Syntorial - The ABSOLUTE BEST way to learn how to use a synthesizer. It makes learning how to program a synth feel like a video game! 🎵 Sound Stripe Where I get my background music (awesome for YouTubers). STAY IN TOUCH 🤖Come join us on DISCORD! 🌍 Website — ✉️ email — ryanleachmusic at GEAR I USE EVERY DAY 🎹 M-Audio Keystation 61 MK3 🖥 LG 34” UltraWide Monitors ⌨️ Logitech MX Keys Keyboard 🖲Kensington Expert Wireless Trackball Mouse 🎧 Apple AirPods Max ________ PS: Some links may be affiliate links which I receive a small kickback at no extra cost to you. Chemist icon in the thumbnail made by Eucalyp from Stock footage provided by Videvo, downloaded from Other photos from Unsplash thanks to Emily Morter, Dollar Gill, Roman Mager, Daniel Mingook Kim, Nicholas Sampson, and Kaur Martin. TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Introduction 1:43 What is the Period Form 2:02 Beethoven’s F Minor Piano Sonata 5:46 Period vs. Sentence 7:31 Spirited Away 10:01 Writing a new melody 13:09 Why I love the Sentence Form