African American Christian Wedding Songs : Writing-4 tips to write a great melody

Let's look at a few ways to get a melody in your song.

1. Simple repetition

It is easy. You just repeat the same note over and over again. It is actually a great way to experiment with different rhythms possible to use in your melody, because if you have only a note in your melody, the only variable is the pace.

If you use this approach, it works usually better to edit a small note at the end of a line of melody. "Part of me" by Katy Perry are a good example of this. The first lines of the melody of the song are sung on a single note, until the last note of the line. Then, there is a change.

(2) A bottom-up model

A growing scale model can be an easy way to find a melodic pattern. You can experiment with different bottom-up models, in addition to your rhythms. For example, you can try using the first, second, third and fifth note of your scale. I will refer to as follows: 1-2-3-5. Or you can try the 1-3-5 notes of your scale. You can even try to repeat notes on your way up. Perhaps the notes of your melody will something like that, based on 1-1-2-2-3.

3. (A) the downward trend

If we can have (a) the ascending pattern as our basis, then we could also use a top-down model instead. You can use the notes to your song across to create models such as: 5-5-1 or 3-2-1.

4. (A) in the case of Zig zagging Pattern

Zig zagging the notes of the scale is another way to "forms" to the land of your melody. To create a diagram like this, simply jump you and then back again to down and then up again. Something like: 1-5-3-8.

When you experienced one of these different ways of organizing the lands of a scale to create a melody, you also mess with the pace of your notes. You can try and play all the notes as eight notes, but then that is the last note as a half note. Or reversing the order. Change the pace can give you a wide variety of sounds to come with.

Another way to change your tune when it is repeated, is to keep the rhythm, the same, but raise to pitch the second time you will hear. For example, if the notes you created in a single line of your melody are E-F-G, you can change their F-G-A, the second time they are sung. If you do this, you can keep the pace the same as in the first line, but you change your ground based only on the grounds being presented.

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Anthony Ceseri is the owner of http://www.successforyoursongs.com/, a website dedicated to the growth and development of the songwriters of all levels. Anthony writings appear as examples in the book "writing without borders: the lyrics, written exercises to find your voice" by Pat Pattison, Professor at lyric writing Berklee College of music House.