How to Write Melodies – Francois

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Do you have problems writing catchy Melodies?

• Then this Step by Step guide is for you!
• Write melodies. Starting with the basic concepts around melodies, you’ll learn how to come up with awesome melodies for your own music.
• Practical. This course is made for electronic music producers, offering many practial examples and writing sessions for different styles.
• Detailed. It’s like being together in the studio. We are commenting and explaining every step in detail so you can follow along.

What you are getting

• A complete beginner friendly online course, learn how to write your own awesome melodies
• 35+ video tutorials
• 4h+ online video sessions with lifetime-access
• 100+ MIDI Files included in basic course plan.

Who is it made for?

This course is designed for electronic music producers – we are going to take the perspective of someone working inside a DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) – like Logic, Ableton Live, FL Studio.

The course is for beginners but its also suitable for advanced learners of the subject as we go into great detail after our first “basics” block is covered.

What you will learn

• Part 1: We are going to learn the basic concepts around melodies, making use of many examples.
• Part 2: We will take a deeper look into scales and modes as starting points for more advanced and intentional melody writing. We will learn how to come up with great melodies, using different scales and modes, “that work” in your own compositions and make them sound more interesting and unique.
• Part 3: You will find practical writing sessions for different styles such as Deep House, Future Bass, EDM, Summer Vibes, Progressive House and Melodic Deep / Techno.

Along the way, we are going through many nice sound examples and sharing a lot of our specific composition knowledge and experience.

Free Previews: Take A Look Inside

I – Looking At Common Melody Problems

In Lesson 2, we are first taking a quick look at common problems you might be having when writing melodies – before we find techniques on how to solve them.

II – How to find Chords for any Melody

In Lesson 7, we are taking an opposite view, assuming we already have a melody in place with the challenge of adding chords to it.

III – Writing EDM Melody with the A-Minor Scale

In this practical session, we are writing a melody within the A-Minor scale – with the goal of making it work within an EDM track.

Course Curriculum

Introduction: Melody Course

• (Free Preview) Introduction
• (Free Preview) Looking At Some Common Melody Problems (6:51)

Refresher: Music Theory & Harmony

• 1 – What is a Scale and the C Major Scale (9:56)
• 2 – The Natural Minor Scale (2:04)
• 3 – Relative Minor, Circle of Fifths (3:19)
• 4 – Triads – Thirds & Fifths, Minor vs Major, Being in “Key” (7:48)

Melody Basics

• 1 – Definition of A Melody (using 3 Examples) (8:38)
• 2 – The Intervals Part 1 (9:56)
• 3 – The Pentatonic Scale – Start here to Simplify your Scale Life (6:45)
• 4 – A Minor – A Minor Pentatonic (4:46)