https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-noise-songwriting-club/help-with-melodies/ Guitar Noise Discussion Board en-US Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:55:55 +0000 wpForo 60 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-noise-songwriting-club/help-with-melodies/#post-206674 Wed, 01 Nov 2006 04:05:19 +0000 also how do you write the chord progression if you think up of a melody first? i always just come out with switching back and forth between two chords and it sounds bad but i can't get it.]]> Guitar Noise Songwriting Club Super man https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-noise-songwriting-club/help-with-melodies/#post-206674 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-noise-songwriting-club/help-with-melodies/#post-206539 Tue, 31 Oct 2006 14:03:27 +0000 Guitar Noise Songwriting Club Misanthrope https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-noise-songwriting-club/help-with-melodies/#post-206539 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-noise-songwriting-club/help-with-melodies/#post-206530 Tue, 31 Oct 2006 09:23:25 +0000 Guitar Noise Songwriting Club Anonymous https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-noise-songwriting-club/help-with-melodies/#post-206530 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-noise-songwriting-club/help-with-melodies/#post-206495 Tue, 31 Oct 2006 03:37:37 +0000 such-and-such in a different key and I hadn't noticed. Bah!]]> Guitar Noise Songwriting Club Misanthrope https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-noise-songwriting-club/help-with-melodies/#post-206495 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-noise-songwriting-club/help-with-melodies/#post-206490 Tue, 31 Oct 2006 02:09:15 +0000 Guitar Noise Songwriting Club Anonymous https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-noise-songwriting-club/help-with-melodies/#post-206490 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-noise-songwriting-club/help-with-melodies/#post-206159 Sun, 29 Oct 2006 09:37:22 +0000
This should give you some ideas to build on for a melody.. btw it's almost essential to be able to record the progression and be able to play over it while trying out different sounds.]]> Guitar Noise Songwriting Club Jminor https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-noise-songwriting-club/help-with-melodies/#post-206159 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-noise-songwriting-club/help-with-melodies/#post-205546 Wed, 25 Oct 2006 20:52:14 +0000

"You do not have to leave your room. Remain sitting at your desk
or table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait. Do not even
wait, be quite still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to
you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your
feet.

-Franz Kafka]]> Guitar Noise Songwriting Club gram99 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-noise-songwriting-club/help-with-melodies/#post-205546 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-noise-songwriting-club/help-with-melodies/#post-204909 Sun, 22 Oct 2006 04:07:26 +0000 bacon tastes good
i saw a skyline yesterday
it was right side driving and everything
thanks]]> Guitar Noise Songwriting Club Super man https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-noise-songwriting-club/help-with-melodies/#post-204909 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-noise-songwriting-club/help-with-melodies/#post-204903 Sun, 22 Oct 2006 03:57:26 +0000
I know its an old (and possibly false) songwriting myth but legend has it that Paul McCartney originally found the melody to Yesterday by singing 'scrambled eggs, how id love to be between your legs' or something like that.

But in the end its whatever works for you.]]> Guitar Noise Songwriting Club Surly https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-noise-songwriting-club/help-with-melodies/#post-204903 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-noise-songwriting-club/help-with-melodies/#post-204228 Wed, 18 Oct 2006 02:16:42 +0000
Try this one: record the chord progression. When you do, play the whole thing out, like 4 minutes or so. Alternate verse/chorus if you already have chords for both parts.

Then play it in your car or somewhere where you are totally uninhibited. Just live with the sound of the chord progression and sing along like crazy. You do it with other people's songs on the radio all the time. So just live with it for a while. No one said you have to finish it all at once. Turn it up loud and sing like crazy. Something will come out of your mouth that you like. Maybe its just a snatch of a melody that has a good hook, and maybe it even has a couple of interesting words attached to it.

When you hit on an interesting peice of a melody, call your voicemail or something to preserve it until you can get home and work with it. If it has an interesting combination of words attached to it, maybe that will introduce some idea of something interesting to explore in more detail, and maybe that will be a root for your lyrics to spring from.

Most of all don't push it. You have no deadline. Give the thing room and time and it comes out.]]> Guitar Noise Songwriting Club Tiger Jam https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-noise-songwriting-club/help-with-melodies/#post-204228