Chord Piano players.?!
Question:
Chord Piano players.?
When you have the chords for a song, how do you get a melody from that? Is there a certain order that you play the notes in or something, because I just can't seem to get a good sounding melody.
Please explain in detail. Thanks.
Answers:
If you're going for a BASIC catchy melody, you just need to have the melody follow the chords as they change. let's say you're playing a C E G chord, then you go to a A C E chord. Your melody could be something like [while on 1st chord]C D E G [while on 2nd chord]A.
Being able to write catchy thematic melodies with nice harmonies is something that has to be more intuitive than learned. I can't even really explain how I write catchy melodies so often for people. It's just something I've easily been able to do for clients over the years.
Learning lots of chord progressions can really help with melody development though.