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I can do basically anything that I'm told to do, but I want to make it so it doesn't sound like butts. If anyone has any idea for a melody line, chord progression, or anything, I'd be happy to take it. ;-; I might not completely go with it, but any donations in this manner would be helpfull...

It really sucks because, literally, any time that my brain starts making something even half-decent up, I'm in a situation where I can't record anything. I'm either walking to my next class, right about to sleep, or some other stupid stuff. >:

Buy a notebook, small enough to put in your pocket.
Always have it on you.
When you get an idea at an inopportune time, write it down.
Work on it later.

But I don't have perfect pitch. ._. I mean, I could figure out the intervals between notes and stuff, but I'm not always 100% sure, I can't always get the rhythm down exactly as I want, and XP

Well, you'll get better at that with time. You should be building those skills anyway if you want to be a serious musician, at all.
And who knows, maybe it'll end up different from what you originally had in mind, and it will be even BETTER.


I don't usually jot my ideas down in perfect pitch, either. (Because I don't have perfect pitch. I'm CLOSE, in that I kind of always know what C sounds like, but that's is; not perfect. And usually a little flat.)
So, I either ASSUME I'm in the key of C in my head, and then just write down note names like C D E F# E D G, or I do it with scale degrees, like 1 2 3 #4 3 2 5.

And there's shorthand you can learn for notating rhythm. I usually just write the stems and beams, and leave out note heads.

So my notes look like this:
C D E  F# G F# E  D G C
|  |-|  | = | = | = |   |-|  |

Or at least that's the best I can do typing it in.

Hmmm okay, then. We'll see. P:

Lol, yeah, at least give it a try. Couldn't hurt, right?

wtf is this    P:    lol - you use it whenever a should have been used and you just started using it

It's because I used to go on meebo to use MSN (my computer, for whatever reason, will not let me connect using an MSN messenger...) and meebo made into a smiley which was hideous, imo. So P: kinda serves the same effect.

haha okie

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Okay, so I decided to work on it at school, and it just ended up working out like that, I guess. So, if anybody could help me think of any way to spice up the treble clef/right hand melody, that'd be cool. Here it is; it's only a few measures because we only need 16 measures:

Spoiler for Hiden:

Here's the link if you, like me, have this image become too big that you can't see parts and it's not scrollable...
http://i47.tinypic.com/a4odb9.png

PLEASE tell me if you see any rules I broke regarding parallel 5ths/octaves/other stuff (if that's even possible when doing melody and accompaniment... I'm only used to writing homophonic stuff).

Chordal Analysis should be:

i   iv   ii°6   ii° - V7   x2
and then I modulate to the relative major key for:
IVmaj7/V     V     ii - V    vi
IVmaj7/V     V     ii - V    I

Hope that extra stuff I put in will make someone help me more because I did the work of giving the chords. ;-; I really didn't want to end so stupidly on an authentic cadence, but I needed one in there because that was part of the rubric.

Nobody wants to help me here?

i would, if i knew anything about this. i don't know anything about this, hence my off-topic responses here