question
Write a musical phrase for two instruments containing several perfect fourths (or other consonant interval you wish to experiment with) and then create a contrast with several dissonant fourths (or other dissonant interval).
For this one I didn’t really have an idea to start, just that I wanted to branch out a little bit with instruments & I wanted to try to actually add drums.
I settled on a piano, a windy-sounding synth, and a backing cavernous pad for extra color. I also kept the dungeon synth drum pack I used for the last exercise.
After many, many false starts, I finally found a decent melody using the synth. I used the mainly the same melody for the A and B phrases, just changing the ending for the B part.
Then, I added an accompaniment to A using the piano; this heavily leaned on perfect fourths. For the B section, I started with the same accompaniment, but changed the perfect fourths to augmented fourths and tweaked the remaining notes to keep the same general shape.
As far as the rhythm… I still don’t really have a good sense for how to write for them. It was mostly trial & error this time, settling on a basic pattern for a measure & then repeating it, mixing up the hits so it wasn’t exactly the same every time. But it is very simplistic, & there’s no real variation to the rhythm; it’s just hitting different drums at the same times. But it’s a start.
Etude 3.1 - fourth intervals.mp3