Writing a Melody Over a Chord Progression - Music Composition

How to compose and develop melody over a set of chords. Are you someone who can come up with a chord progression but you’re not quite sure how to improvise or write a melody to go with it? In this music composition lesson, we take a pretty standard chord progression and find out how to write a melody that works really well as a melody and that also fits the chords perfectly. Once you’ve spent a few minutes working through this you’ll be able to do it yourself and you’ll be knocking out great melodies to go with your great chords. Let’s get composing! 🔴 Subscribe for more videos just like this: 🎵 Become a Music Matters Maestro: 🕘 Timestamps 0:00 - Introduction to writing a melody over a chord progression 0:22 - The chord progression 1:31 - Basic melody writing 4:24 - Improving the melody 5:35 - A better accompaniment