Music Composition: Write Powerful Melodies

There's one fundamental thing in music that you can learn which will immediately improve your music compositions. Without buying the latest sample libraries, without spending months or even years analysing the minute details of music orchestration, and the best news is that you probably already know a little about it. And that's melody.

In this melodic music composition course, you'll learn:A tried and tested method for composing better melodies from scratchHow to compose a strong melody over an existing chord sequenceWhat makes a good melodyHow to compose countermelodiesThe scales and modes you can use to compose more interesting melodiesI've taught literally hundreds of students how to compose music in person, and thousands more online, and I've also won awards internationally for my own music, but when I first start teaching a new group of students about composing melody, they often think it doesn't apply to them. Maybe you're into death metal and don't view that as melodic. Or perhaps you're writing minimalist music built on patterns or chord sequences.

Well…here's the thing: you're still writing melodic music. As Leonard Bernstein said: "where there's music there's melody, you can't have one without the other"I remember one student in particular, Jamie, who was really into rap so didn't think melody had much to do at all with what he was composing. During our first lesson we sat together and analysed some of his favourite tracks and he went wide eyed, amazed at just how many melodic elements there were in music that he himself had thought wasn't melodic.

He went on to write some of the most intricate, and interesting hip hop music I've heard for a long time. So melodic music writing isn't about composing "old-fashioned" symphonies or cheesy pop songs. It's about writing better parts for any type of music.