Getting started with ChordMelo
Choose your settings across four screens and you will end up with three melodies. Read the explanations as you go and you can finish without any music theory background.
- 1Chords
- 2Type & section
- 3Meter & mood
- 4BPM & density
Start with the progression underneath
Step 1 of 4A melody is built from notes that fit the harmony below it, so the chords come first.
What a chord is
Several notes of different pitch sounded together. Stack three or more and you get a colour — bright, sad, tense — and each combination has a name such as C, Am or F. On guitar it is one shape; on piano it is one handful of keys.
What a progression is
The order you put those chords in. The same set of chords in a different order gives the song a different character. Pop songs often loop four chords.
What a bar is
The unit used to count groups of beats. With four beats to a bar you count 1-2-3-4 and that is one bar — the box between two vertical lines on a score. Here the “|” marks each bar, so “C | G | Am | F” means four bars with one chord change per bar.
If you are unsure, pick one of the presets below. Every one of them is common in real songs.
- Progression
- C | G | Am | F
- Melody type
- Vocal Melody
- Song section
- Chorus
- Time signature
- 4/4
- Mood
- Catchy
- BPM
- 110
Your settings so far