Question about melody construction

[EmergencyRoom]

I'm a guitarist but seem to have hit a wall when it comes to writing melodies. As people who play a different instrument, and having concentrated a fair bit on melody as keyboard/piano players im looking to you to give me some ideas about how to construct a melody.

Thanks all :thumb:

[Ned]

I'm a guitarist but seem to have hit a wall when it comes to writing melodies. As people who play a different instrument, and having concentrated a fair bit on melody as keyboard/piano players im looking to you to give me some ideas about how to construct a melody.

Thanks all :thumb:

There's no law that says you have to be a composer and no formula that will turn you into a composer if you aren't one already. Just play your guitar.

[EmergencyRoom]

There's no law that says you have to be a composer and no formula that will turn you into a composer if you aren't one already. Just play your guitar.


Maybe i phrased my request badly. Guitar players and piano/keyboard players approach writing melody differently due to the fact that their instruments facilitate these approaches. I didn't ask about laws of composition or formulae. I'm a guitar player, and as a guitar player i tend to compose harmony then stick the melody on top. I was asking for a point of view from a different instrumentalists perspective as keyboardists tend to deal with melody first due to the nature of their instrument(i've been led to believe).Looking for how you compose a melody then harmonise it, as opposed to the way i'm used to.

Can anyone help me out?

Thanks

[Hells Bells]

I usually start with the melody first - something that helps me out is messing around with chords/arpeggios in the scale I'm writing the song in. Hope that helps :thumb:

[HypnotiQSorcerer]

.... don't know what your saying!
it has nothing to do with pianist and guitars
it has to do on how you construct your songs
whetehr you choose to focus on bass rhythms, chord progressions, melody lines etc...
as a guitarist i belive what your trying to attempt is become a MELODIC guitarist,
rather then rhythm or lead..
melodic guitarist use melodic tools like Arpeggios, and scales like petantonics and diminished chords
which gives their songs a more tonal and melodic form

Pianist/keyboards right are songs based on melody and chord progression
or sometimes simply chord progressions etc...
same as guitarist...

now what your asking is not a matter of instrument
its a matter of Music THEORY

Guitarist are sometimes limited to theory knowledge thus can't construct songs as well as a pianist/keyboardist

the type of music you make mirrors the theory you know etc...

[Mightypianist]

Actually the melody or the law for piano and guitar is always the same... Cause the piano and guitar is under the Law?Theories of music..... Actually the guitar always use Chords and you will c the exact melody by Knowing the chords and you can detrmine the Scale...Scale is very impt. 2 maka a melody.... And b4 i end up...try to enhance the abilty of ur ear...4 me reading notes and using ear is essential 2 a good musician..