5 BEGINNER Tips for writing a Melody

[@audiomixexpert3175]

I'd love to see a breakdown of the music that supported this melody. It sounded really great! Thanks.

[@composingacademy8270]

I'm planning on doing a video in the not too distant future on the string orchestration. Many thanks for watching!

[@etiennedevignolles7538]

The first bar reminded me of the music from Children of Dune. I suppose the short motif is very common. Of course it then went in a different direction. Great stuff, cannot wait to get back home to try this out. 😃

[@ToastandJam52]

The final result sounded excellent. I couldn't help notice that you didn't use any rests. I like add "silence" to create an impact. Looking forward to your next video. Thanks!

[@matthewgaines10]

Simple and effective tips

[@ivanmectin9106]

Clearly explained , and the final result was cinematic !!! :)

[@composingacademy8270]

Thank you!

[@antonellorepetto6033]

Congratulations on an amazing final result!

[@mubafaw]

Absolute legend! This made my day. All ready subscribed earlier. Quality content. Thanks 😊

[@composingacademy8270]

Thank you for the feedback, really appreciate it! And thank you for watching and being a subscriber!

[@Roland_Geyer]

Thank you very much for the clear explanation with this beautiful example. They helped me a lot in the development of my melodies. 👍👍

[@composingacademy8270]

Hi, I am so pleased you have found it useful. Happy Composing!

[@kevinanderson519]

Brilliant! Thanks so much. Really helpful as this is something I’ve struggled with. 👏

[@composingacademy8270]

Thanks so much for watching-I'm glad it was useful!

[@OutandaboutWalking]

Hi Simon. Excellent video! Any chance off a tutorial for writing/orchestrating for four horns please?

[@composingacademy8270]

Hi, thanks so much for watching! Yes absolutely, I will add a video for writing and orchestrating for 4 hours onto my to do list - thanks for the suggestion!

[@OutandaboutWalking]

@@composingacademy8270 Thank you so much .

[@toddtyler]

Your channel is absolutely amazing, this is exactly the kind of helpful, useful stuff I need as a beginner. Your presentation style is really engaging, and the content has given me many moments where the lightbulb goes on and I get it - that's exciting and gets me motivated to go try out what I've learned. Can't wait to g through the rest of your videos, and I'm looking forward to more. Thanks so much - subscribed!

[@JeanLoupRSmith]

Your channel was recommended to me today and I've found it very useful so far so thank you. For this video the only thing that surprised me a bit which I thought might have been useful to talk about is your choice of cadence. Your 16 bar melody ends on a tension note which suggests the melody wants to continue on somewhere, I would perhaps have said a quick word on that or changed it to a resolution to the root just for the sake on completeness. Other than that, very straightforward and easy to follow

[@SebowaAli]

It had to end on C note since the piece was in the key of C....thank u for great watch out

[@Markrspooner]

Thank you for this video. The only thing that might be confusing is the difference between, Motif, Phrase and Melody. For me the Motif was the first 3 notes you had, which you then varied. This made up a Phrase, which following a similar principle with the motif is varied in subsequent Phrases. These Phrases combined make up the melody line. Let me know if I have this wrong, as I have seen Motif, Phrase and Melody used almost interchangeably.

[@composingacademy8270]

Hi Mark, thanks so much for watching. Yes I would say the first 3 notes are the motif. Then the first 4 bars would be the phrase, resulting in the total 16 bars being the overall Melody. Apologies if that wasn't so clear!

[@davidgoode7416]

Thank you for the help

[@composingacademy8270]

No problem, glad you found it useful!

[@davidgoode7416]

@composingacademy8270 I'm a beginner, so it's very useful

[@patrickomalley1513]

Hi Simon Very clear explanation as always. Just wonder if writing any melody without considering key and underlying harmony plus cadences is good practice. I struggle to find these in your piece. Maybe Aminor key but why F#? Patrick

[@vincenzofiordilinomancuso441]

Thank you so much for your video 😊

[@composingacademy8270]

My pleasure 😊, thank you for watching!

[@ChrisZemdegs]

Love it, thanks very much.

[@composingacademy8270]

Thanks for watching!

[@ablotogan6424]

nice..luv it hope i can learn lots from u thank u so much

[@composingacademy8270]

You are so welcome, so pleased it was helpful!

[@GreenHope42]

Thanks for the video and for showing the MIDI view in addition to the notation view. Is the next video, how you orchestrated the piano sketch?

[@composingacademy8270]

Yep, I'm planning on doing a video soon on how I orchestrated the tune for strings. Many thanks for watching!

[@조스티브-u3f]

Thank you for the good video.Can you tell me in which vst is the string sound coming from here.The string sound is very warm and nice.And teacher's melody is so pretty!!

[@pascalbasso8807]

Bonjour . Je cherche depuis longtemps un tutoriel tel que celui là .( j'en ai abandonné beaucoup ) Celui ci ( l'ensemble des différentes vidéos ) me convient parfaitement , pertinemment et clairement fait sur le contenu et sur la forme . MERCI !!! ( et bravo )

[@composingacademy8270]

Wow, thank you so much for the comment. I am so pleased you have found it useful. Happy Composing!

[@martinsatny9747]

Thank you sooooooooooooo much!!

[@composingacademy8270]

You are very welcome, glad you found it useful!

[@5966ramesh]

Amazing video. beautifully explained. Thank you so much.

[@composingacademy8270]

You are so welcome! I am pleased you are enjoying the videos!

[@5966ramesh]

@@composingacademy8270 how I did not come across your videos before!!! 😊. I am so happy to find your channel.

[@Excellentness]

Thanks Simon

[@thynature]

Great lesson, thank you!

[@maciej74174]

Bravo !!!

[@scarabrae]

Helpful....thank you.

[@composingacademy8270]

You're welcome!

[@cpastore3537]

Once again great video and thank you!

[@composingacademy8270]

Thanks for watching!

[@maxencebutton1401]

Simply brilliant ! 👌

[@composingacademy8270]

Thank you!

[@ChrisJCarter]

Nice explanation and that piece sounds great!

[@composingacademy8270]

Thank you!

[@swatsatp8429]

Sir you r gr8 pls teach me how to do a orchestra step by step . N how to develope it n how to add harmonies to it .. pls sir ....how to. Compose the cello n viola etc etc ...pls sir from fundamental level.

[@composingacademy8270]

Hi, check out the rest of my channel. There are videos on there on how to introduce strings, percussion and & woodwinds etc. This should help you along on your composing journey!

[@sardarbelal3114]

Great lessons thanks.could you pls explain about song writing systems?about 4 bar to 8 bar rules.thanks

[@flavioishimaru5399]

,,,,,😲 cool, good job 👏

[@composingacademy8270]

Thank you so much, appreciate the comment!

[@straylightaudio]

Can i get some of these tutorials as projects? or midis?

[@ncz_music5208]

What a mind-blowing ❤️...

[@composingacademy8270]

Thanks so much for watching!

[@konstantin7420]

Thank you!

[@composingacademy8270]

Thanks for watching!

[@MichaelPilipp]

Very good! Thanks!

[@composingacademy8270]

Thank you!

[@uscroger4690]

What program are you using-sybellius??

[@hytalegermany1095]

I came here from the total beginner how to write music video and I see in your melody that in this video you very often use notes that can not be combined in some sort of simple chord. So whatever your harmony chord is, a few notes are not on the chord. At the moment I feel like entering very unsave territory when leaving the chord notes when it comes to melody. Is there any advice or thing to know when jumping off the recent chord for one or two nodes might be usefull?

[@eliyahhaddads5778]

do you teach, how to write disco strings?

[@marialock007]

Love it!

[@composingacademy8270]

Thank you!

[@xisotopex]

what gets me is that it seems like its usually the harmony, or the chord progression that really makes the melody.... I have tried taking popular melodies and putting new or different chord progressions under them, just to hear how it works or more likely, doesn't work....dont quite have the skill to do this however...

[@339lenny]

Great Video as always. I'm kinda new to composing. Would it be possible to make a video about song structures and the music theory behind it? Can I use 4 chords in the whole song like in pop songs? How do I keep it interesting?

[@composingacademy8270]

Many thanks for watching - yes absolutely I will plan to make a video about song structures and the theory.

[@NapoleonPresidal2024]

Going on

[@carlosbogran5287]

Excellent

[@composingacademy8270]

Thank you!

[@domenicograssi9727]

Hi Simon, great tutorial! May i use this melody or is copywrited?

[@composingacademy8270]

Hi Domenico, well it is a melody which I wrote and own the rights for, but of course I have uploaded it to youtube for public consumption and learning from :-)

[@MusicMan-er9sv]

Good video. But hard disagree on you opinion of large musical steps, yes use them wisely, but pieces like: æa room with an ocean view" and "Fallen down" absolutely THRIVE on those long intervals.

[@fabulousk9014]

Is it possible to get the midi or sheet music from these videos somewhere? :)

[@kouadioangebasile8530]

GOLD

[@composingacademy8270]

Thanks!

[@maldeorin4208]

wow i can belive

[@composingacademy8270]

Thank you for watching!

[@어기여차-r6d]

Wow!!!~~

[@composingacademy8270]

Thank you!

[@Langtw]

The melody was absolutely obnoxious until that final version, where it was suddenly amazing. I guess thats why you have to trust the process sometimes

[@composingacademy8270]

Absolutely! Thank you for watching!

[@timothyj.bowlby5524]

Your melody has canonic/imitative possibilities, which would make for a good next video...

[@composingacademy8270]

Great idea - thank you!

[@timothyj.bowlby5524]

@@composingacademy8270 You're welcome.

[@FaithfulComforter]

I learned strings are a cheat code lol

[@HiggsBosonandtheStrangeCharm]

...sounds good, but isn't one of the first rules of writing a good melody, is that it should have one single climatic note? If the climatic note is repeated, it's not the climatic note.

[@lightst33l]

Melody build ok but not ending i think it needs resolution??? Just my opinion!

[@composingacademy8270]

Thanks for your feedback...in hindsight, I think I agree!

[@Peaceful_Days]

I made a mistake of changing the melody too much and it sounded like a completely different piece of music.

[@juniusliles1995]

💎💎💎👏👏👏👏👏🙏🏽

[@composingacademy8270]

Thank you!

[@erikhorvath4297]

No my problem is not that i cannot write good melody, my problem is that i don't know the exact time measure and rythm whish i were in those people's shoes who can write down the correct rythm but cannot write good melodies🤣

[@dicktempelaar]

brilliant

[@composingacademy8270]

Thank you!

[@dicktempelaar]

@@composingacademy8270 learn so much from you altough i am 63

[@Mrbreastoffficial]

hi

[@composingacademy8270]

Hi & thank you for watching!