This Simple Melody Writing Trick will Transform your Songwriting!
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
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This simple trick will transform the way you write melodies. Period.
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ABOUT BENNY
Hi I'm Benny. My passion for music and creativity stretches across multiple disciplines and art-forms. I am a founding member and songwriter / lap-slide guitarist for one of Australia's best and most bearded country-bluegrass-folk bands, THE GREEN MOHAIR SUITS. To date the Mohairs have released 4 full-length albums and tour both nationally and overseas.
I am also the Founder and Head Producer of SILAMOR STUDIOS, a boutique studio specialising in Composition for Film, TV and Interactive Media. I write extensively across various instrumental and lyric-based genres and has been commissioned for major projects by Adobe, Cathay Pacific and Audible. I currently release original songs under the name SILAMOR.
I am also passionate about education and have taught song and lyric writing as well as film composition for JMC Academy, Collarts and the Australian Institute of Music. I design and regularly facilitate workshops on creative process and innovation.
Links to Bennny's music are here:
The Green Mohair Suits
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I have this problem for sure,,I always write the melody as Im writing the song and then it gets locked in there and then I have a hard time improving upon them
So, after a chord progression, I then La La La vocally over the chord progressions on my phone memos…..when I like it, it gives me +/- syllables that I now can put words too, in verse, chorus, and thats how I write songs….🎉
Just what I needed! I knew my UA-cam scrolling would eventually pay off.
I truly thank GOD for the work that you a Kippa do. I’m gaining the confidence to start my own channel and you’ve made it clear that I should freely give knowledge. And I will.
This is the best, most actionable explanation for melody writing i have seen!! Thanks!
I feel like this video is going to change my life. Abselutely golden tips. So thankful your channel exists! Many many thanks
What a great lesson! And I’ve been writing songs for 30 years now. I still got something out of it.
Are you related to Robin Hood, the legend who steals from the rich to give to the poor?
Thank you so much ,can we include this include this step wise and leap in every bar of the song ?
I had heard musicians referring to using arpeggios for songs, but didn't quite know what they meant. You explained it so clearly - thanks!
I can't wait to get started. What a beautifully articulate and inspiring lesson. Thanks!
Only play in chord tones. But it will be static and have no expression if you play the whole phrase within the tones of one chord. The magic and meaningfulness comes from playing a phrase within one chord, and ending it on the tone of the next chord. If you get used to doing that, it becomes very easy to create expressive phrases. Trying to think of it as leaps within the scale never got me anywhere, except in an accidental stumbling way.
Thank you for sharing.
Happy Songwriting!
I came here to try and understand melody, and now realise i don't understand arpeggios either. 😢
Always something to learn more about!
I learn something every video. Thankyou.
Thanks for the tip, Benny. Seems like a great way to unlock the creativity! See you soon at the songwriting Q & A.
Good stuff. I took this and started adding some major/minor 3rd and 7th slides and pulls as well. Seems to me this theory can apply to rock, country, jazz, classical, etc. by adding a bit more embellishment. Mi Piaci, grazie..
Great lesson. Clear and simply explained so it's actually accessible to people. Thanks for doing this and keep up the good work.
I would also like to add sing-ability into the steps.
Thank you, good lesson.
Thanks for a great lesson!!
This has given me some ideas for new melodies
Most valuable teaching
Arpeggios are my bane. Ive started many times trying to learn them. Usually, I just start with a chord, hear a melody in my head, figure it out on guitar. Then, let the melody determine my chord progression. Subsequent melodies I guess are in a way, a motif, I construct from the chord that underlies them.
Me too, but triad improv broke me through that
@@sfischer1001 yeah triads are king. I'm sure i have some arpeggio knowledge via triads, but I can't play them across all strings at will
@@iwritethehooks Keep at it, it's worth it.
Great video, have recently been focusing on scales but sounds like arpeggios will be a useful new resource for songwriting. Thanks 👍
Great video to start the day with and insight to play with. Thanks a lot!
Im gonna try this when i write songs from now on
Very cool suggestions! I'd love to explore using arpeggios for melodies more often!
same, imma lyrics first writer and it always gets me ! i need to match my melody to my lyrics or the opposite (ugh never mind)sometimes it has amelody attached to it and sometimes i have to come up with one thatll fit the stanza i just wrote . but thanks fo the video
Lovely and inspiring explanation. Thanks ❤
Well, that was outstanding. Thank you.
Awesome. Thank you 🙏. Love it
Thank you. Excellent lesson.
Brilliant lesson. As are all HTWS lessons from Keppie and you.
wow this was amazing thank you
this is excellent!
Great advice thanks 👍
Good lesson, as always!
Thank you
can you make a video about how to write good instrumental? your amazing btw! Ive never come accross a channel like this!
Love your lessons. Great work!
Awesome lesson. Thank you!
Muito bom mesmo!
Great!
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BUT in another one of your videos, you suggested that stick to 5 notes or so to begin writing music. That seems to contradict what you say here.
The idea of sticking to 5 notes relates to writing in short, manageable motifs. This video is addressing the intervals between the notes and encouraging the idea of leap motion vs step motion. The two concepts are not mutually exclusive but it's worth exploring them one at a time to measure the impact of each
Great lesson, hope you don’t end up Hey Sued for using a Beatles song. It’s insane to me that using songs in an educational context is frowned upon by some artists/labels.
Wonderful lesson! Thanks!