if i could relearn how to make melodies from scratch id do this

I just recorded

this

entire tutorial and my camera went off so I lost all the footage from the camera's point of view but it's a good tutorial uh it's like that though it's a good tutorial all around modes, so, I'm still going to upload it and I'll try to

make

up for them with something else, but basically in

this

video it's just that if I were to learn how to

make

Melodies from

scratch

again, I would use this method and to learn how to arrange pieces. together from

scratch

and how to train your ear to be able to make things from scratch.

I review the use of royalty-free samples. I review the chord combination. Review of the counter. Melodies and all that. So yeah, I hope you like this video and I'm sorry that my camera died, but it won't happen again, definitely not because it bothered me, so I'll finish editing this right now and then upload it. If I

could

learn how to make Melodies from scratch again, this is how I would do it. So this process involves using royalty-free samples because you can avoid losing the percentage of the songs you are trying to work on. Let's use Arcade.

We're going to use iCloud to bridge the noise. So the first step is to find things we like. resonates with us melodically something we say hm I like that I want to do something that I like in the same way that I like that no no no put R&B and soul R&B soul so what I'm looking for are different components that can come together to make a loop So what elements make up a sample or a loop, it can be a base, a synth, a piano chord, vocals, ambience, all these different things, so I'll look for different parts that I like in each place and then compile them together . and then I try to play the notes to see how they were made, okay, it took me a little while to find something, but I got this piano on this side, let's splice, now let's find an ambient synth that I like, okay, so this one It's the environment.

We've put that in there, let's get some other Spice stuff, like maybe a flute, so now that we have at least three components, our first step is to put the key of all of them together, so let's do that right now, this is F minor. we all do it in C minor for the sake of this video so F minor f is here one two 3 four five we have to go down five five notes to get to C so let's go 1 2 3 4 5 then this one is on the key of E, I don't know if it's E minor, E major, let's see, it seems to be C minor, so let's take this down a step and if it is, it's a little deep, so I'll raise it an octave going higher. 1200 cents on the tone knob, now I'm going to put the flute on too, this says D minor, so we'll go down two because D is two notes above C, this is how we're going to learn to make Melodies From this, I combined all these things and it sounds good.

Now I know these are components I need to make a good melody, so I'll open up a new pattern and match the vibe of each of these layers. let me open a synthesizer. I don't know what synth would sound too close to that, but those are just the notes I'm looking for. I don't know what, no, that's it, I don't think it's these. same notes but this sounds so remotely similar that it doesn't sound anything like it just sounds spacious but I use this one to inspire me to make this pattern more or less now I'm going to put some effects on it because it sounds like that one it has a lot of effects so it reminds me of Portal , so I'm going to go to Portal and find some effects for this, remove some bass and add some reverb as well.

I'm also going to open up a raw beat and I want it to go backwards okay I have that layer now let's do one after the piano turn it up again it's basically seven Now 1 2 3 4 5 six seven 1 2 3 4 5 six seven I think is this note, I actually like the vibe this part gives, but when I try to recreate the melody as it sounds in the loop, I don't really like it, so I'm going to do my own thing, inspired. outside of that, so if you're wondering how I knew how to make all these chords, I just followed the baselines that I heard when I was listening to this, but it sounded a little different, so I knew the scale was then C. minor because that is what we changed it to and then I just put the base notes in the C minor scale and then I just built the chords around them by doubling this note up to seven notes and then I put notes in the middle where it sounds good, so this is what that we have so far, let's change this preset so we can have something a little cooler, the piano is okay, but it sounds a little boring to me, so I'll open up this VST phase plan. now let's pick up the flute, now let's mute the flute, that sounds good, let's throw it in the mixer, put on some chorus, put on some reverb and then let's EQ a little so it's less harsh and mixes more.

In fact, I'm going to scroll through the chorus, if you scroll through these plugins, this affects the chain, that is, they are affecting what is above it, so if I move the scroll down, it will affect the EQ and the reverb, but if I put it on the top means that the reverb and EQ are affecting what has already been done in the chorus, so yes, now we have this new melody that we have done well from scratch using practically sketches and small tracings, but now it best of this. We can do whatever we want, so if we want to transpose this, there's nothing stopping us, we can go here and transpose, do uh plus four and then we can listen to it, but what if we started it here?

So yeah, basically. The possibilities are endless for the sake of this video. I'm going to do one more to show you how to do it again. Melody from scratch and then I'll also go here and then fade it out. Let's go to a new one. Fix it and then let's go to Arcade this time let's look for some things. I realized we didn't use them in the last one, let's see. I know ingredients are a good line in arcade, so let's try that one, let's try downloading some of these to a lesser extent. try it go to a new pattern click on some of these and see what we find set the tempo to 140 again that sounds good it's kind of catchy I'm going to put some effects on it now let's flanger it and then build speed I'm going to try to copy this pattern No I'm going to try to do it not for note but just get the same vibe now let's put this in four where the arcade was okay I like that kind of sound it's very different from the arcade but it's still inspired by it so I'm going to go to the arcade again, I'll get those notes out and then try to find some minor chords that I like.

Actually, I like those notes even though they aren't. chords I was looking for chords on a monitor, so I'm going to type in synchronized chords, let's press that too. I like this one better, so let's try dragging it into the playlist and then stretching it in time to eight bars, make sure. you use stretch mode. I like that progression, so I'm going to open up a synth. I want to change the order of these chords though, so let's try to do that. I don't like this last one, it feels a little cheesy, so I'm going to pull that out and then highlight all of this by doing command, hold down shift, left click and press shift up and then we can duplicate the ones below and then go up, see that sound is off here, move that up, um somehow.

I like to express my chords so that they sound. More complete is to raise the middle note an octave and then lower these. Now the sound selection isn't quite there for this one, so I'm going to change it and there we are. Come on, we have a melody from scratch. To make it more different, we can change the bpn. Let's set it to 125 and then transpose this whole pattern. Five transpositions go down three and then you can cut the patterns like this and then make new ones. I'll show you, so let's make it unique and then cut this here so we can highlight them or just type, click here and merge Clips, let's go up an octave actually plus 12, these can go down and then put. any portal about it, if I were to learn how to make Melodies from scratch again it would probably be like this, find good loops that you like, try to recreate each layer and then add effects to get that vibe that can sometimes What can be confusing when you do Loops is how I make everything sound cohesive, but by doing this you can see that you really only need two or three layers of solid notes and then you can just stack them, so I hope this was helpful and give it a try, let me know what you think happens when you use this method and let me know in the comments some more things you want help with, yeah wow my camera died it was dead this whole time.