Creating a melody

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Anybody have advice on creating a melody, I can make drum beats well but I cannot create any other kind of harmony or overlaying sound. Any books that might help on hip hop music production? Any advice appreciated.
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Don't need much theory in terms of making hip hop beats, so just learning major/minor scales and how to form chords will cover most of the stuff that you usually hear in rap music.
 
You can help with creating a melody by doing the harmony first. Learn the chords: G,em,C,D and loop these one per bar, so that it plays over and over. Then try to make a melody on top of this.
 
I'm having a similar issue. I can make an interesting drum pattern then when it comes time to make it more complex and interesting by adding vocal samples something that would beef it up it starts to sound pretty awful.
 
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