Practice Making Melodies
- Check out Laid Back Luke’s video on making melodies to get a sense of how he makes his music. (You only need to watch up to around 1:55. Afterward, he talks about chords and harmonies and some other things but don’t worry about that, unless you are interested).
- Try copying the melody he is playing.
- See if you can reproduce the melody in a DAW (such as in your bandlab project)
- Don’t worry if it’s difficult or if you don’t make it exactly like Laid Back Luke’s melody. It’s the process that counts.
- You can also try making something that is similar to Laid Back Luke’s melody but change some notes and keep what sounds good to you.
- Now, find some other melodies in music you like to listen to and see if you can figure out how to reproduce them or make similar sounding melodies in your DAW.
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