Composing for Beginners: Simple Melody with Harmony
In this video, I show you one method you can use for composing a simple melody with harmony. It will be helpful for this video if you already know how to read sheet music, but otherwise, no music theory knowledge is required.
Timestamps:
Step 1: Harmony (choose your chords) 0:46
Step 2: Making the harmony more interesting (creating a rhythmic bassline) 2:16
Step 3: Begin the melody! 4:11
Bonus step, make the melody more interesting (passing tones) 4:55
Step 4: Creating a longer piece of music 7:25
"Completed" song 11:47
Closing thoughts 12:47
I use noteflight.com for this video. Another alternative is musescore.com
If you would like a video on how to use noteflight, let me know!
For this video I am composing a piano piece with harmony/bass in the left hand and a melody in the right hand, but a lot of these composition concepts apply to other pieces (solo guitar, string quartet, etc).
Also sorry about the auto-focus. I truly do not know what my camera is trying to focus on.
And for those of you that are reading this far, I spelled "sneak peek" wrong in the very beginning of the video and only noticed after uploading. Enjoy this Easter egg.