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Chords for my melody
What is the best ios app: "I sing or play melody and it gives me fresh, matching chords"
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Don't think there is an app for that. I just use my ears.
(to elaborate) if I come up with a vocal melody out of the blue (walking the dog, in the shower etc) I record it on my phone to remember it, and then when I have a moment I just sing it to myself while strumming chords on a guitar - it's pretty quick to find chords that fit under the melody and then if need be I will use a capo to transpose to another key.
I'm sure you could do something very similar using an app like Soundprism or ChordPolyPad to control a piano/synth app and sing the melody while playing a bunch of chords underneath it. Your should be able to hear what works and what doesn't, and then do a bit of work to create a melodic and harmonic cadence.
Also if you change up the chords every third bar (or whatever) it's a quick and cheap way to allow for some melodic and harmonic variation (just tweak the melody to fit).
Apple’s Music Memos.
+1 to this advise.
Also I would add that a melody can often fit on just one or two
Chords.
As many great songwriters have attested, any more than a couple of chords can just take away from the song.
Vary the rhythms of the chords that are played to add the interest.
I think it kinda depends. Some really amazing melodies are sung over just two chords (Walk On The Wild Side for example), but then if you take the most classic melody-written-first-and-chords-added-later track, being Yesterday, which macca wrote in his sleep (literally), there's about a million chord changes under that melody and it doesn't seem to detract from the beauty of the song. But yes, personally I tend to stick to fewer chords, it's just simpler, and complex harmonies are mostly lost on listeners.
The main thing, IMO, is that the melody should be given priority over the harmony - top line is far more important than chords, because the average listener only really cares about the vocal melody, the chords are mostly incidental for them (as long as there is cadence of course).
Not sure if it will help your process at all but Chordflow has been life changing for me.
Thanks for sharing!
In what way? I’d really like to know as I’ve had it on my wishlist.
+1 for strumming it out on an acoustic guitar
+1 for chordflow
+1 for youtube channel Revolution Harmony
I find this app YouCompose also has great potential. I use it to find fresh harmonies and bass accompaniment, copying the resulting MIDI files, and then tweaking them. Link: YouCompose by Elstar
https://itunes.apple.com/it/app/youcompose/id690183662?l=en&mt=8
I came across YouCompose from Doug's video
And the tutorial
4 tracks: the first is your melody. Combine the three other tracks for interesting chord combos. Plus it is then an interesting mental challenge to figure out the chord the app produced, for those not already geniuses at figuring out "of course, that's the Dsus2add9 2nd inversion!" YouCompose make jazzy chords. For "fresh" chords, your mileage may vary.
Oh yah, I forgot about YouCompose! It was a bit heady for my novice brain but did provide some cool midi source. I just found it tricky to dissect at the time. Should certainly give it a revisit now.
I was just completely blown away at how many viable sketches came out of it in the first weekend. I ran two Chordflows on two separate ipads along with Future Drummer, via link, into my PC running Massive and Omnisphere. It was magical. By the end of the weekend I had a dozen sketches, about eight or nine of which I really felt motivated to finish off. It was to be the perfect week off work but then come Tuesday morning I was wracked with shingles pain which totally killed my progress/destroyed my summer, but I digress/bitch/moan (still to this day).
Try MelodyMiner
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/melodyminer-turn-a-song-idea-into-melodies-over-chords/id1030667318?mt=8
I’m considering how I would incorporate the backing tracks into a more soft rock orchestrated type of style. I’ve always wanted to do this but I’m not good at harmony and stuff so this might just be my ticket!
Also, wonder if it would midi sync at all with say Rock Drummer hosted in AB3 or AUM. Have you tried it like that?
Amazing. Thank you!
Harmonizing your melody is part of the creative process, and really fun and rewarding to do. Why farm that out to an algorithm?
And yet there are thousands of great songs with shifting harmonies and constant key changes.
I should’ve emphasised the ‘can’. Obviously, it isn’t always the case. Horses for courses.
+1 I stumbled on these recently too and find them useful.