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Melody development: song example 1

This article Melody development: song example 1 is available in association with MusicianUniversity.com as part of the melody writing access it here (requires course membership)
In the previous lesson on melody writing we touched on the subject on melody development. To give you an idea of this works we take a classic song and try to develop this simple melody.

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