Beautiful Piano Tricks. Melody as Harmony, Texture, Terrain. 6 short examples

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One note at a time, that's melody, right? But the right figure, arpeggio or pattern can create a whole harmonic world.
00:00 intro
00:34 Pentatonic Arpeggio
01:26 Alternating Contrary Motion
02:19 Riffing Progression form
03:04 Oblique Motion Melody
03:56 Interlocking 7th chords pattern
04:54 Extended Arpeggios

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[harryleblanc]

Most of these pieces (except the first) struck me more as patterns, arpeggiations, than as melodies. They sound lovely, of course, just not melodic to my ear. This got me thinking... where is that boundary? When I hear very short notes, all the same length, with no rests or rhythmic varation, it doesn't hit me as melodic. Melody, to me, is more like speech -- there's a rhythm, but there's also space and syncopation and prolongation. The boundaries are fuzzy, and subjective, but there is a difference, I think.
This is why I'm not fond of either guitar "shredding" or alot of rap. They sacrifice phrasing for feats of endurance. Listening to a guitarist emit an endless barrage of sixteenth notes (or faster), or a rapper "spit rhymes" so rapidly that everything but the percussiveness is lost, is more like watching someone do pushups than watching them dance.