Here's a melody driven improvisation. These melodies I usually come up with are four or five note phrases, then I continue with the intervalic aspect for continuity.
If I'm remembering correctly (I play these things then do this technical assembly-line process, write this description and at this point it's difficult to remember what I did until I post it and listen and read at the end of the process), this melody is something like this: from the first note down a seventh, up a minor second, back up to or close to the original note. This shape becomes the theme basically.
Okay, so I add this to the entry as I've now listened to the piece and the theme I mention above does not come into the picture until midway or so. Then it's prominence emerges. I guess I remembered it as "the" theme of the piece because it dominates the latter part of it, and I remembered it best!
If I'm remembering correctly (I play these things then do this technical assembly-line process, write this description and at this point it's difficult to remember what I did until I post it and listen and read at the end of the process), this melody is something like this: from the first note down a seventh, up a minor second, back up to or close to the original note. This shape becomes the theme basically.
Okay, so I add this to the entry as I've now listened to the piece and the theme I mention above does not come into the picture until midway or so. Then it's prominence emerges. I guess I remembered it as "the" theme of the piece because it dominates the latter part of it, and I remembered it best!