Icetickle wrote:How do you pitch bend and what is that anyway?
pitch wheel on your midi controller or pitch automation in your DAW (or both)...unless i'm reading your question wrong. this is one of the key elements of music production with synthesizers.
Re: Making good melodies?
Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2013 7:06 pm
by Icetickle
difference wrote:
Icetickle wrote:How do you pitch bend and what is that anyway?
pitch wheel on your midi controller or pitch automation in your DAW (or both)...unless i'm reading your question wrong. this is one of the key elements of music production with synthesizers.
Basically movement of the pitch through time?
Re: Making good melodies?
Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2013 7:06 pm
by Eskimo
There is plenty of music theory books out there, google is your friend. If you can't afford them there's plenty of torrents out there too... you just have to look, don't expect everything simply handed to you.
Re: Making good melodies?
Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2013 7:11 pm
by claudedefaren
Learn scales and modes, keep your shit simple and not weird. Listen to people who have amazing melodies or catchy as fuck hooks. Moullinex, that dude must just pop out hook after hook after hook if you listen to his Flora album you'll see what I mean. Katy Perry also a great lesson in catchy shit. Analyze them intensely.
Re: Making good melodies?
Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2013 7:13 pm
by Aufnahmewindwuschel
hit the black ones
Re: Making good melodies?
Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2013 7:30 pm
by Icetickle
BudSpencertron wrote:hit the black ones
jackass
Re: Making good melodies?
Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2013 7:42 pm
by Aufnahmewindwuschel
no literally hit just the black notes and you cant fail ask de5dm@u5
Re: Making good melodies?
Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2013 8:13 pm
by fragments
Raven Spiral's Guide to Music Theory is great and free. Spelled out pretty well for complete beginners. I read it every once in a while. Makes a bit more sense every time I do. Honestly, being able to noodle around on a keyboard (I actually use Maschine most of the time now) helps me a lot. I end up quantizing a lot of stuff or moving notes around on the grid with my mouse, but being able to jam something out feels a lot less like guess work than entering notes on the grid trial/error fashion.
Really the only honest answer to the OP's question is that there are no short cuts. Read/re-read on music theory. Practice. Repeat.
Re: Making good melodies?
Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2013 8:31 pm
by kylekronez
Okay thats amazing.
Re: Making good melodies?
Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2013 11:49 pm
by skimpi
no, dont hit the black ones, hit all the white ones and it should always match
Re: Making good melodies?
Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2013 1:39 am
by Coolschmid
skimpi wrote:no, dont hit the black ones, hit all the white ones and it should always match
segregation is key here
Re: Making good melodies?
Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2013 1:49 am
by Icetickle
Coolschmid wrote:
skimpi wrote:no, dont hit the black ones, hit all the white ones and it should always match
segregation is key here
Re: Making good melodies?
Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2013 6:49 am
by hendrix126
Surprisingly, whistling has helped me write a bunch of my melodies in my song.
Re: Making good melodies?
Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2013 11:29 am
by Reversed
Icetickle wrote:Everything is in key and fits with chord progression and all the other elements in the track.
Most people ITT are talking about music theory and stuff, of course you'll need that, but IMO stepping outside the boundaries a bit is important to write sort of decent melodies. You don't have to use the exact same intervals in your melody as in your chords, you can experiment with other modes of your scale too, etc... helped me at least
