How to Write a Great Melody (Over Chords)

Thank you very much. Awesome craft

Me looking for a chord progression that's not 1415 and this video pops up. 😅

Wholehearted thank you!

Wow! This is amazing! I wish I met you this long time ago.
Thank you for sharing and you made me to learn more about the music.
cheers! 😎

I love this channel because the editing is so whimsical yet practical in conveying what you’re saying and it’s both so clear but also so fun!! Epic video 👍

Thank you, thank you very much! I learned more about creating (melodic) MUSIC from your tutorial than in four years of music academy. As an "educated" drummer/percussionist guess I was/am the living proof for the old saying: "The MUSICIANS and the DRUMMER are expected to enter the stage"... Maybe next time I'll be allowed to enter the stage when the call is to the MUSICIANS? LOL

Oh far OUT man!!

This is super helpful. Sinking in.

Does music express emotion better than words? Is it the language of emotion?

This content is quite frankly, excellent!

I took music theory in high school, but never really learned how to read or write music on paper. My melody lines are very simple and come from my head. I fear that they are too similar to other compositions I've created. Is this simply "my style" or am I missing something? Sometimes, I don't realize if I'm plagiarizing other melody lines or if they're just similar to others' work. I'm beginning to lose faith in my ability and could use some advice. Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

Great teaching thank you.

Great video. Very practical approach to making interesting melodies.

Melody where there is a beat to match to

this is amazing thank you, will be bach to watch this again!

This is an EXCELLENT VIDEO! Now I have 1 question, do these rules and concepts ALSO apply when writing lyrics to your chord progressions since Lyrics are a melody but with a voice instead?

Wonderfully presented and explained with a masterful touch from the violin rendition... thank you for making this 🙏

i love hearing the non-chord tones. the tension makes me feel things lol. im excited to use them in my first piece

gonna be the next bach frfr jk thank you so much for this incredibly helpful and well-made guide i hope you have a nice day

Excellent advice, thank you

That was amazing. I watched the previous linked video first and saw how it all came together. Hat's off to all involved. It was most entertaining and educational.

I’ve been a trombonist for 10 years now and I tried this. Couldn’t think of anything very creative so I put the well known bruckner 8 trombone excerpt over å Dominant 7th chord sequence with the root being an F major 7 chord
It honestly sounded really cool

Your literally trash

Would've been great if you had used just a piano sound....I couldn't really hear much of what you were discussing because your "piano" sound was too close in likeness to the violin

This method is 100x more difficult than writing melody first and adding chord (harmony) later.

Amazing! I love the violin play. And I am flashed by the multitude of ideas just handling 4 chords. Lovely!

Madly easy to understand

It sounds too difficult for me.

As was said to Mozart: Too many notes. How are you going to teach melody composition with such fast melodies, and how are they applicable to songs as you claim? Start with the basics.

on the importance of rhythm, sometimes I like to start a melody with rhythm. Just clapping or tapping something along to a groove and worrying about notes later can often be quite effective

This is one of the best music education videos I've ever seen. Easy to understand and simply beautiful.

How many hits did he write ?

I've been playing the guitar about 12 years now and there was recently a 6 year gap, it's a long story. I already knew three of the chords except the E7. After playing it in the following order A minor, E7, G, F. After a couple of tries it started sounding out. It blew me away! Thanks for tutorial. You also filled in some holes in my understanding of how it was put together. I'm going back and review some of the things that you mentioned. 😁😁

Thank you so much 🫶

The editing is fantastic. Never gets boring. I am deeply happy to find you. Hope you doing well <3

Can you perhaps do a video on inversions one day? I understand it when there is 3 notes, but once a note is doubled and the chord has 4 notes then I'm lost.

Wow, great and inspirational video. Feel like going to reinvent old written songs

Very interesting thank you.

Man the violinist was absolutely stellar...blew out my Aorta..

As a non-native english speaker this is gold, i wish my teachers were this good at explaining melody.

Ty

very helpfull thank you

The violinist is good as fuck, mad props to her

this video is really good, keep it up David!

Holy man this is not just a meat but a whole cow, so much information packed in one video! Thanks, as a newbie in musical theory this is help a lot

This is amazing. Thank you for the effort. ❤

This video is so amazing