The Magic Behind Writing Melodies ( Easy), 3 Levels of Melody

Ableton Live Academy: Get this project file: Check out the Everything Bundle: In this tutorial you re going to learn the fundamentals of creating interesting melodies. We ll start from going over the basics of harmony (for both melodies and chords), and we ll analyze the chord progression in our track. After introducing the concept of tension notes, we ll use it to create three types of melodies (in 3 levels) from basic, through more advanced patterns, all the way to syncopated rhythmic melodies in the Lydian mode. Let s get started 0:00 1:50 Introduction 1:50 6:00 Basics of harmony 6:00 8:52 Analysing the chords 8:52 10:00 Tension notes 10:00 13:00 Level 1 13:00 15:50 Level 2 15:50 20:04 Level 3