Making good melodies?

[forbidden]

How do you pitch bend and what is that anyway?

pitch wheel on your midi controller or pitch automation in your DAW (or both)...unless i'm reading your question wrong. this is one of the key elements of music production with synthesizers.

[Icetickle]

How do you pitch bend and what is that anyway?

pitch wheel on your midi controller or pitch automation in your DAW (or both)...unless i'm reading your question wrong. this is one of the key elements of music production with synthesizers.

Basically movement of the pitch through time?

[Eskimo]

There is plenty of music theory books out there, google is your friend. If you can't afford them there's plenty of torrents out there too... you just have to look, don't expect everything simply handed to you.

[claudedefaren]

Learn scales and modes, keep your shit simple and not weird. Listen to people who have amazing melodies or catchy as fuck hooks. Moullinex, that dude must just pop out hook after hook after hook if you listen to his Flora album you'll see what I mean. Katy Perry also a great lesson in catchy shit. Analyze them intensely.

[Aufnahmewindwuschel]

hit the black ones

[Icetickle]

hit the black ones

jackass

[Aufnahmewindwuschel]

no literally hit just the black notes and you cant fail ask de5dm@u5

[fragments]

Raven Spiral's Guide to Music Theory is great and free. Spelled out pretty well for complete beginners. I read it every once in a while. Makes a bit more sense every time I do. Honestly, being able to noodle around on a keyboard (I actually use Maschine most of the time now) helps me a lot. I end up quantizing a lot of stuff or moving notes around on the grid with my mouse, but being able to jam something out feels a lot less like guess work than entering notes on the grid trial/error fashion.

Really the only honest answer to the OP's question is that there are no short cuts. Read/re-read on music theory. Practice. Repeat.

[kylekronez]

Okay thats amazing.

[skimpi]

no, dont hit the black ones, hit all the white ones and it should always match

[Coolschmid]

no, dont hit the black ones, hit all the white ones and it should always match

segregation is key here

[Icetickle]

no, dont hit the black ones, hit all the white ones and it should always match

segregation is key here

[hendrix126]

Surprisingly, whistling has helped me write a bunch of my melodies in my song.

[Reversed]

Everything is in key and fits with chord progression and all the other elements in the track.

Most people ITT are talking about music theory and stuff, of course you'll need that, but IMO stepping outside the boundaries a bit is important to write sort of decent melodies. You don't have to use the exact same intervals in your melody as in your chords, you can experiment with other modes of your scale too, etc... helped me at least