How I write my MELODIES! (and how you can too!) 

The full version of the song featured in this video is now up! Check it out: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3YlbkFN9_4M.html Also, thank you guys so much for watching! This is my first video to reach 1000 views, which is so crazy awesome to me! It really means the world; stay tuned for more cool music stuff!

Lately my feed has been absolutely flooded with "melody writing hacks" and I gotta say, this perspective is like a breath of fresh air after all that. I think my favorite part of this was how non-technical it was - the formula is absolutely a useful tool that I'll be keeping in my back pocket, but the whole thing still boils down to improvisation, building on the ideas that initially spark (something I already *was* doing before being drawn in by the dozens of "one simple trick to write better melodies" content out there lol). Thanks a bunch for getting me out of that slump, this really helped so much!

As a very amateur "musician", I found your advice quite helpful. Thank you so much for bringing us an inspiring boost!

Wow a melody writing tutorial that actually mentions motifs, rare good video alert

I wish I could like this video twice- once for the great advice and another for how fun it was to watch! I can feel how much fun was had making this

I always struggle a lot more on finding the right instruments than making melodies, but i still learnt from this, Great explanation !

I was not expecting the result to sound so epic omg. You're great at making music

To express what many of the commenters have already expressed this tutorial was absolutely a blast to watch. I love the approach I love the overall result and I love the anime/chibi avatar it just adds to the fun of the content. :)

I really like how you start with your melodies and I hope you make more videos!

Wow, such a good insight. Great video! And your song reminds me of liquid drum and bass due to the chords and drums

This is a surprisingly good tutorial, tbh. Good video, and new sub :)

Wow! Thanks youtube for showing me awesome channels like this one on my feed. Great tips!

Your video was incredibly informative and well-structured. It's amazing to see the creativity you put into your music and also in the editing of this video. Keep up the fantastic work

This definitely makes me realize, as a beginner, two fundamental mistakes I'm making when I'm writing melodies, which is 1) Not returning to the root note enough 2) Not thinking critically and deliberating when programming them in the DAW Cool video ^_^

I love the lil cartoon girlie

I just found my courage to start with learning music and your video helped me gain some inspiration. I still have a lot, a lot to learn, but your video is a great example for me how to to unleash creativity. Thank you!

Very interesting video! I guess we tend to naturally construct melodies this way, but being aware of this technique could be helpful to break down more complex melodies into chunks easier to manage.

presentation, repetition, variation and destruction is such a cool and fun way to think about melody structure as opposed to the more boring or confusing terms like aabc or sentence/period, etc. and i think one of the "traps" that exists for people is to worry too much about following rules instead of just using theory stuff as a jumping off point for experimentation, so i like the point you made at the end about not thinking about it too much! :D glad the algorithm recommended me this, subscribed + looking forward to future videos!

Really enjoyed watching this!

so well done and concise! thanks for the tips

Just a tip don’t add too much out of place notes. What I mean by that is notes that are way higher than the original starting note or the note before it. and if you do add it make it fit. Great video. Not a musician but just made some music and heard tips from others.

Thanks

I just wrote a simple melody with this formula and wow it really did help I can't actually be sure if this was something that was already in my subconscious though lol

For those who want to learn more, it's called the PReVaDe technique.

Your explanation of making melodies just made everything click within my head. Thank you for the awesome video and thank you RU-vid algorithm for pushing this video 🤙🤙 You earned a sub from me!

Great stuff!

Pretty nice, i liked this technique, cool stuff

I knew aspects of what you discussed here but never quite put them together until now. Very glad I found your channel, this was a great video :)

Very nice tutorial. I actually never studied music theory but this does give me some ideas! 😁

thank you so much for making this!!!! before seeing this, i'd been trying to get into composing music, but i could never get the melody to sound right. today, i finally made a melody that i am happy with! thank u so much!!

Yeah this video actually calmed me down quite a bit tbh xD i get so paranoid about music and feeling like i have to know everything about it to understand it and if i dont than ill never get good at it fast enough and blah blah

This is completely unrelated to the video but I just really love ur voice :0

Really great video! Thank you for making this! It was very informative and interesting, and I think it has helped me a lot!

this is a great video!! it's not like the others i've watched where it's just "figure out your chords and then find a note to start with and then move around on your scale and around your chords" i love writing music but i often struggle with actually posting things because melodies have always been the hardest part for me when writing music. what's shown in this video is something really every composer including myself knows, but it's still something we need to be told again every so often and i think you did it in the absolutely best way possible!! i know you didn't wanna get into boring textbook and theory stuff (especially since they're really just for analytical purposes) but i think learning at least something can be helpful to any composer, because even though a person who knows zero theory can make pieces just as amazing as someone who knows every bit of theory, just simply learning the fact that something like negative harmony exists can really help with getting ideas more quickly

This is incredible Sam. Great video loved how well the video is put together. 🎉👍 very professional

Awesome this is really cool! Thank you ^-^

Really good video!

the video might result a lil long and boring BUT if u are willing to watch it all(like I did) it actually gives you basically all u need to write nice melodies! Thank you for sharing your knowledge 💜

Thanks !

Yaay another insight! I truly appreciate how you approach the leitmotif, the overall composition and orchestration The "Presentation - Repetition - Variation - Destruction" idea is kinda interesting, for me at least. One of many ways to make a solid melody and cohesive composition. I personally have different approach when it comes writing a melody (the old way because I've been taught at conservatory which taught the traditional way to approach a melody/leitmotif), but it's good to see another perspective just like yours! And I also love how you put some ear-candy sound effect on the background like the laser effect, blinking sound. It adds some interesting texture into your music. Would love to see how you approach the harmony on the next video. Great video, Sam!

This video was actually really helpful, and I especially appreciate how you explained a little bit about phrasing too, since that's probably the main thing I have issues with. Really informative, definitely subbed after it Also, I'm starting to see how sound selection is important for making songs. Do you have any recommendations for how to go about it (just like, general tips to whatever)?

personally, i write my melodies with my brain

I learned so much from this video tbh. Kinda wanna try makin a song myself but knowing me, I wont ever finish it and put it into the list of things that i need to finish 😭 Also that song is just SO GUDDD! (Please do upload it, i wanna listen to it on repeat 🙏🙏) Its fun to watch you work. Not gonna lie, i was planning to have this video in the background while i grind coins in a game but instead i stopped and just watched :>

completely unrelated to the video but you seem like such a fun person

You are so underrated

Woah, seems like these styles of videos you are making are doing really well, look at you go! Gonna try not to do a novel again haha Honestly, my thoughts are pretty similar to what others have said, your style of explaining was great, pretty straight forward compared to following stuff to the book is a very good and creative of doing stuff! Presentation, repetition, variation and destruction! That way of recycling and modifying patterns is something that applies not just to music, but most other crafts really, it is a good way of doing variation, keeping it organized and having some image to it, while not being as hard as following a formula! I particularly liked the synth run in it, no particular reason why, simply thought it sounded cool! The final work sounded amazing as per usual! And honestly, particularly amazing! It has so many energy, so many sounds fitting in together, feels like something space/wonder themed! These videos you are making keep rapidly building up my desire to get the dust off my keyboard and try again, always had a bit of difficulty, my hands could never play different notes each, but that's just a silly little thing I could probably overcome with effort, still, my schedule's too cramped to get the thing back out of the box haha! Well, if one were to take a shot everytime you said melody, they would take 15 of them, wow, way to make them faint! I honestly think the video ended up pretty well! it was informative, educational, pretty fun to watch, had animated moments to illustrate importance on certain parts which is a good way of doing it, putting the words in the screen like the sections of melody writing (the PReVaDe stuff!) certainly helps the brain reinforce the information with the visual stimuli! Alongside that the more laidback, not talking in too much of a technical tone makes it a much easier and honestly human and friendly way of presenting all of the knowlodge! It's like learning stuff from a friend! It certainly is! Great video, keep up the good work I had listened in to the video right on its upload but only had time now to write, hopefuly it wasn't too much of a novel haha

Great video! You have a new subscriber!

shes just did a yabujin type beat

Omg I wanna be like you so bad... I've been always into drawing but now im also trying to learn music theory and stuff for start composing my own simple/basic songs but it's kinda scary getting started for zero, so thank you for this useful information!!!!🙏😭😭😭😭

Awesome video! I also love the little Chibi version of yourself that you got in the corner, it's cute. Also, I know this may be a long shot, but I don't suppose you could give some suggestions for melodies based on theme? I make (awful) animations about an original Sci-fi series I made and I want it to feel like a mix of Borderlands, Sunset Overdrive, Fallout and Halo. I want it to have a Western vibe but also a VERY unique melody that perfectly captures the overall ambience of the series I'm making. I want something that's chaotic and hard but also futuristic yet somewhat western, something that sells the characters first and the overall Universe right after them... I don't suppose you have any advice on that?

Your thumbnails are adorable. Do you draw them yourself? Also, consider getting a de-click software to process your narration to take out some of those asmr noises. Makes a big difference!

Editor hot tip! EQ your voice to lower the middle-low/bass frequency from the 200 to 100hz range Your voice is getting oddly peaked by how much bass your mic picks up! Gl in any future videos too

5:10 - Isn't that the "Dies Irae?"

Vouch 🤙

this reminds me of the old yt animators

Subbed 🥰

Your artstyle and oc resembles so much of my sister's that i was shocked and thought this video was hers XD Considering she's also a musician, it's quite crazy how much resemblance she has of you, awesome work 😩✨. I just have to say it lol.

Maybe obvious or in the video but what piano did you use in the main melody? + preset?🗣️🔥 Banger track btw

Run out of ideas?... just let the cat walk on the keyboard et voilà!

Heyyy, I like music too! What are you doing rn?

i clicked on this video because I like music and cringy anime bs.

For someone that does music, your voice recording quality is pretty bad lol. You don't do noise removal or compression?

Dont get me wrong, i udnerstand your good intentions. But melodies can never be written intellectualy. It is like teaching a baby to speak by explaining to them grammatical concepts. A baby learns a language by primitive imitation. People that want to create great melodies need to trascribe great melodies from fmaous composers and sing them and memorize them until their memory is filled with them to a point where they can start speaking in melodies. And the brain will know on its own how to repeat patterns...it is not something that should intellectualized while in the process of creation because it will deter the spontaneoty of the singinging