Hi all FP:ers. To begin with I can say that we are 2 guys that just started fresh and have been getting into producing for like 2-3 weeks now and have a common goal to learn how to produce music. We started out with youtube tutorials about the basics and stuff but whenever we start a track it feels like our knowledge about chord, pad and melody is really really weak. We have almost no ide what to think about when making chords, pads or any melody at all, which leaves us kinda stuck in tracks where we get the other elements good like kick, drums, claps etc. but just our melody sounds like a 3 year old child pressing some keys..... We have tried 100 different tutorials on youtube on how to make a chord progression and it looks so easy just hitting some notes but we've tried and it doesn't really work. I think we need some kind of real explaination from the beginning how and what to think about when to make a melody. So thats why I wonder how you guys started out and learned how to make melodies and chords when you were "newbies".