Creating Great Melodies & Countermelodies By Ear

A common and most dangerous mistake to make in your composition is adding too many elements to your music. Here's why...

In this tutorial, I give you 4 Tips on writing Happy Adventure Orchestral Music by ear in the style of How To Train Your Dragon / Sonic The Hedgehog & more

Using inspiration from other genres are a great way to add interest and uniqueness to your music. This is just something I’ve picked up along the way listening to a lot of neo-soul jazz&hip hop, and I think you’ll have a lot of fun trying it out.

So here’s a pretty long (but hopefully rewarding) tutorial on writing different chord progressions for your melody, or theme. Here, I’ve composed a basic melody and went through an entire sketching process of writing progressions from: 1 chord, 2 chords, 3, 4, 8, a 16+ chord progression; downward and upward motion; and finally, extended chords.

This video is part of the Cinematic Synthesis: Digital Sound Creation course.

Hey all, Alex here! Today, we’re going to dive into an orchestral tutorial on how to make melodies sound great in any type of arrangement or mix.