Making your melody sound professional

um, no, there is no such thing as a "pro" melody

there are well constructed melodies and there are poorly constructed melodies but no pro melodies

difference between well-constructed and poorly-constructed is down to experience and scale use - if you know how notes within a scale can dictate what should come next, your melodies should begin to become better constructed

  • in the major scale the 4th note of the scale tends to push down to the 3rd (F\E) and the 7th tends to push up to the tonic/octave (B/C)
  • if you are looking to move out of the current scale then you can use ideas like
    • modulate to the next key above (from C to G)
      • raise the 4th and rise to the 5th (F#/G)
      • use the tonic and fall to the 7th (C\B)
    • modulate to the next key below (C to F)
      • lower the 7th and fall to the 6th (Bb-A)
      • shift focus on the 3rd and rise to the 4th (E-F)
  • in the minor these ideas are less binding, though they can still be usefully applied
 
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The melody should be singable. plain and simple. If someone can't remember it by way of singing it then it doesn't have that "pro" quality you speak of. Bandcoach explains the actual nuts and bolts of it.... referring to the tensions and resolutions within a scale.
 
music theory is your best friend. Doing it and learning it a little everyday will eventually make your melodies and your playing ability sound "pro"
 
SWiY said:
music theory is your best friend. Doing it and learning it a little everyday will eventually make your melodies and your playing ability sound "pro"
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combining that with instrumental or vocal practice will get you there twice as fast....to that "pro" melody level.
 
there ain't nothing "pro" about a melody it either works or it doesn't - let's stop perpetuating myths
 
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