<h1 id="melody">Melody<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#melody"></a></h1>
<h2 id="components-of-a-good-melody">Components of a good melody<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#components-of-a-good-melody"></a></h2>
<ul>
<li>Stay within the rough boundary of an octave and a half</li>
<li>Consider the contrast of steps and leaps, where <em>steps</em> are movements adjacent notes of a scale, whereas <em>leaps</em> skip over at least one note (ie. non-adjacent notes). 
<ul>
<li><em>leaps</em> catch the ear of the listener, but too many leaps can be disorienting. <em>steps</em> provide stability, but overusing them can yield bland melodies.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
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<h2 id="using-memory-to-improve-melodies">Using memory to improve melodies<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#using-memory-to-improve-melodies"></a></h2>
<ol>
<li>Write and record the melody, making sure not to play it too much so as not to engrain it firmly in the mind</li>
<li>Step away from the melody for a period of time until you've forgotten most of it</li>
<li>Attempt to re-create the melody after the period of absence. It's ok to listen to listen to the first couple of seconds to get you in the right ballpark, but the point is to get the essence of the melody correct. Recalling it this way and forcing ourselves to attempt to reconstruct the melody can result in coming up with better versions of our melodies.</li>
</ol>

Melody

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Welcome to my Second Brain! Here you'll find thoughts, lessons, facts and any other interesting musings that I've come across or thought up over the years. A lot of what I have gathered is originally from the minds of others, while some of it originates from myself. Some notes may contain misinformation, though I try to be rigorous with my additions.

What I have here does not necessarily reflect my thoughts and views. I collect information not based upon whether I agree with it or not, but rather when I determine it to contain some value that can be served in the future.  

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## Tags
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## Resources
### UE (Unexamined) Resources
Often, I come across sources of information that I believe to be high-quality. They may be recommendations or found in some other way. No matter their origin, I may be in a position where I don't have the time to fully examine them (and properly extract notes), or I may not require the information at that moment in time. In cases like these, I will add reference to a section of the note called **UE Resources**. The idea is that in the future when I am ready to examine them, I have a list of resources that I can start with. This is an alternative approach to compiling browser bookmarks, which I've found can quickly become untenable.

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### Resources
This heading is for inexhaustible resources. 
- A prime example would be a quality website that continually posts articles- another example would be a tool, such as software that measures frequencies in a room to help acoustically treat it.
