Writing Multiple Melodies | You Suck at Producing #55

Having multiple melodies in your track is like having multiple children. Wrong. However, in today’s lesson, we’re gonna learn how to write melodies that balance and play well with one another.
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About Underbelly: Trained in classical piano since the age of 7, Underbelly started producing electronic music when he was 14 and teaching online when he was 17. His KZbin Channel, You Suck at Producing, now has over 85,000 subscribers. His tutorials and original productions have been featured in publications such as DJ Tech Tools, Earmilk, NEST HQ, Pyramind, and more. He has toured internationally and supported artists such as Lido, Tchami, Keys N Krates, Sango, and Giraffage. He uploads new tutorial videos every Thursday and does a livestream every Sunday. You can submit tracks for the livestream by joining his Discord.

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Anyone else perplexed by Harold being the second child yet older than Roger?

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No.

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I watched your first probably 20-25 episodes about 6 months ago, when I started using Ableton. In last couple of days I was struggling with the melody of my second song and this video just came into my feed. Thank you so much Underbelly, it was very helpful!!!

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Another perfect metaphor for making music, well done!

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Your goofball presentation aside your method of breaking down an approachable method for composing contrapuntal melodies is neat

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That's it ima start naming all my melodies like my children now.

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[@burn_after_reading]

Holy shit I've always been recording the arpeggios in audio by resampling but your way is much more flexible! Great tip! I've also been sometimes tapping in melodies rhythmically first, the reason being that it's pretty damn hard to play a keyboard well.

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[@Duke49th]

What an amazing set of melodies. Sorry, but had to "steal" them haha. I checked your soundcloud, you do not use the stuff from your tutorials. Don't know why. They always sound great. @Melodies: It sounds a "bit" different here. And my drumset is also totally different and I only play it on 101bpm. Still sounds really nice. Nice accident I had - forgot to unlink the Midi track where I used the Arp (the stuff you did at the end with "smallboy" and it played always into the new Midi track where the pure Arp notes are. Interesting combination. I am always amazed what nice stuff can happen by accident with music.

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Hey Underbelly, what if we played the whole family at the same time? Would that work? Playing multiple melodies simultaneously at once?

[@LesterBrunt]

Yes but it takes some skill to make it sound like 3 separate melodies while playing at the same time. You can do it with a canon style where they all play the same melody only starting at different points.

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Derek and Smallboy? Who’s the trap?