Need serious help making melodies for hip hop/RnB songs!!

Impulse220

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I'm new to making beats, right now the problem i'm having is trying to make melodies. What i do i is i pick a scale and try to mess around like that but still can't get a decent flowing melody. what else can i do?
 
What is the melody for? Are words going to be added to this or is it just an instrumental line? Is the melody going to be the main attraction to the music also. (In the middle, upfront, with the spotlight shining on it :))
 
There really aren't many tips for especially melody of all things because it's more of a feel thing.

A few tips though:

You mainly want to follow your chord progressions, vary the lenghts of your notes, don't be afraid to hit the same note twice in a row, make sure the melody has movement but neither too much nor too little, there's basically a few different types of melodies: downward motion, upward motion, call and response..

That's about all I can think of for now.
 
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