Writing Great Songs

A melody (from Greek μελῳδία, melōidía, “singing, chanting”), also tune, voice, or line, is a linear succession of musical tones that the listener perceives as a single entity. In its most literal sense, a melody is a combination of pitch and rhythm, while more figuratively, the term can include successions of other musical elements such as tonal color. It may be considered the foreground to the background accompaniment.

Songwriting Lesson for Beginners to Advanced

Andrea Stolpe is a Songwriting instruction for melodic, lyric, and harmonic ideas from Berkleemusic.com instructor and writer of “Popular Lyric Writing: 10 steps to Effective Storytelling”

Check out her site at http://songwritingtips.net/

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• Melody Mining – How to write melodies out of thin air

• 3 Easy ways to craft irresistible melodies –
• How to write a melody? –

• Seven Steps To Writing Memorable Melodies: How do you come up with a really good melody? Here’s a series of techniques and tips developed by Jon Smith which can be used to help beginner songwriters and composers come up with stronger melody lines. http://music.tutsplus.com/series/seven-steps-to-writing-memorable-melodies–audio-21726

• How to write and program a melody. Four classic tricks for developing your melodic lines.  http://www.musicradar.com/tuition/tech/how-to-write-and-program-a-melody-580767/