I do know about intervals. I took music theory class, so I understand chord progressions and that kinda stuff.

Say you choose a 8 chord chord progression. If you end your verse on the sixth chord and you still have 2 more chords to go, does that mean you start the chorus on the 7th chord of the ...

So you have a melody sounds that good...what you can do is drop certain notes out of that melody and replace that 'space' with something else(percussion, sample whatever), or make multiple slightly different melodies from the base melody you start with - so you end up with say 3 variations of the ...

Help?

Here's an example of what I mean, http://soundcloud.com/dj-cata-kai/trance-test.

I have the bass melody going and going and it's the same throughout the entire piece, but I want to change it up, I just don't know how haha

Hey guys, new here. I just came to get some help when writing music. I can usually come up with a pretty decent melody for songs, but I can never get out of that melody per say. All I do is repeat that melody over and over while adding things over it and taking things out. I'm wondering how I can ...