How do I get better thinking up melodies? I want to write

study pop chord progressions and the circle of fifths

then get a piano and play around with some chords

Just buy a Macbook and mash a bunch of buttons on Ableton or whatever. That's how everyone else without creativity makes music

Lots of lsd

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>>72725596
take existing pop songs and rearrange them a bit

have talent

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgcBbe241YU

this got writen by a 15 year old.

>>72726214
>1:00
holy shite

Are we sure Aphex didn't write this?

>>72726214
and it's shit

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>>72726880

take a tried and true progression like I–V–vi–IV, loop it, and just hum melodies over it.

Just practice I guess man, also try different instruments, maybe one will be easier than others. Your voice also counts as an instrument.

>>72725596
What I did, and this is someone who knows literally nothing about music theory, is study the melodies of songs I love, and found out where they fit in scales. Then, starting from a baseline, such as one note that several of the songs start from, I just experiment and play notes in different rhythms and order, but only use notes that the melodies from those songs are constructed from.

>>72725596
How much do you know about theory? If you already know how to write a good chord progression, I can help you out a bit. If not, I'd say learn to write chord progressions first. It's way easier to put a melody to pre-existing chords than to put chords to a pre-existing melody

>>72725596
you listen
you keep listening
you hum along, even mentally if you don't want to out loud

the only way to write a genre or style is to take in a lot of it over the course of time and understand the tools and techniques used to maneuver through the given style.

>>72728739
Not necessarily. Trying to set a melody over an arbitrary chord progression will often leave you with an uninteresting melody that lacks direction. A good melody will imply harmony structure. This still requires good knowledge of chord progressions, so you're right on that count.