Make better melodies (without playing an instrument)

Here’s a bold assumption: maybe you don’t play any musical instruments, and so when you try to make melodies in your electronic music, they often lack depth or interest?

Here’s a strategy worth trying, to create harmony from notes, then create melodies from those harmonies, including spicy ratcheting rhythms with the “Double Arpeggiator trick”.

Try it at home and see how you like it!

My Foundations of Electronic Music course: https://courses.underdog.brussels/courses/foundations-of-electronic-music
My Industrial Techno follow-along course: https://courses.underdog.brussels/courses/techno-entire-track-creation

Use my link to sign up for Reason+ and use the code underdog to get 30% off your subscription for the first year: https://www.reasonstudios.com/#ref=underdog

Resonance Rack Extension: https://www.reasonstudios.com/shop/rack-extension/resonans-physical-synthesizer/

My music project soundclouds:
Torc: https://soundcloud.com/torcaudio
Face the Sun: https://soundcloud.com/face-the-sun-be

Contents:
0:00 A bold assumption about you
1:01 A strategy to generate MIDI melodies
3:25 The double arpeggiator trick
4:47 Take this to the next level
5:42 How to learn more

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