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Not sure if this is in a wrong place or if I will automatically be yelled at for asking something like this here but I have done some searching and quite a bit of experimenting, I am admittedly tired but I could not seem to find what I was looking for on google. So basically I was wondering how do you put a melody to chords?

I have 4 chords: A minor (A-E-C), some chord I cant remember(E-G-B), another one(F-A-B), and D minor (D-A-F),

I fleshed those out on the guitar and have no experience improvising, so this would help me in 2 fields of music, but do I just play notes of the chord in different orders? (tried arpeggiating, which didnt come out so well), or do I work within 1 scale throughout all 4 chords? Or possible make new scales with each chord, and if I do would it just be A minor scale for the A minor chord and D minor scale for the D minor chord?

Not necessarily looking for a right or wrong, just wondering how you guys do it.

REALLY surprised you couldn't find anything... 0_o

The answer to the universe is 'whatever sounds good.'

No, you don't have to stick to the notes in the chord.

No, you don't have to stick to a scale.

No, you don't have to stick to 12/oct temperament.

Notes that are in the chord will sound more consonant, notes that are not in the chord will sound comparatively dissonant. It's matter of contrasting and using tension and release.

Binging "melody chord progression tutorial" returned this as number one. You may need to brush up on your research skills.

jonahmann wrote:Binging "melody chord progression tutorial" returned this as number one. You may need to brush up on your research skills.

Mate, is that track in your sig meant to sound like that? Its a bit off topic I know but I was really curious to check out your stuff and I never expected that. Very original. Whats your main influence?

Thanks! The tape sound is deliberate. My influence for that tune was a bunch of DnB mixes on YouTube.