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zypher · Post by **zypher** » Thu Feb 19, 2009 11:01 am

Heya

looking for a tutorial on writing melodies for house music, electro, progressive house!!

found some on trance, but thats not what i want..

if anyone has any tutorials or info please help me out

Max Headroom · Post by **Max Headroom** » Fri Feb 20, 2009 6:29 am

I'm not trying to be sarcastic here, but what's the difference?

AbbeyRhodes · Post by **AbbeyRhodes** » Fri Feb 20, 2009 8:11 am

There's really no rules for melodic composition. Honestly you could take some basic classical composition lessons and use that knowledge in electronica, actually that's what I do, and you won't need to go far in classical composition before you get to a level of complexity which is just not necessary in commercial house music. Progressive/experimental is a different story.

If you want a quick fix just learn and start playing around with modes. You can even lump them in groups - ionian, aeolian are your major and minor diatonic scales for commercial stuff, dorian, lydian, mixolydian for slightly more interesting stuff, phrygian and locrian are great for your weird/heavy/progressive stuff.

MoreDread · Post by **MoreDread** » Fri Feb 20, 2009 8:37 am

http://www.kvraudio.com/get/3214.html

jancivil · Post by **jancivil** » Sat Feb 21, 2009 8:36 pm

mechanized arpeggios aren't really melodies, fyi.

dirty oscillators · Post by **dirty oscillators** » Mon Feb 23, 2009 5:30 pm

there's no special music theory you need to learn, just sample your favorite Disco record and there you go. simple as that.