Melodies are hard. Chords come with all sorts of easy rules about how you're supposed to string them together, but when it comes to writing a nice line to go on top of it, oftentimes it seems like you're just supposed to pick random notes and hope they sound good. And honestly, once you get into the habit you are kinda doing that, but if you feel like your melodies are falling a bit short, there's a few things you should try paying attention to, like melodic shape, note functions, and phrasing! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/12tonevideos Mailing List: http://eepurl.com/bCTDaj Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/12tonevideos Twitter: https://twitter.com/12tonevideos Email: 12tonevideos@gmail.com Last: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=js0AGmB8Z4E Intervals video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heRleAas0lY Functional Harmony video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ot_lbUcb-uE Ending Songs video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zdcqbc4sZMQ Motifs video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cT05-mrSnhg Huge thanks to our gold-level Patreon supporters: Ron Jones Jill Jones Susan Jones Howard Levine Elaine Pratt Ken Arnold Nakarin: null Mark Yachnin And thanks as well to Henry Reich, José N., Logan Jones, Eugene Bulkin, Jody, Abram Thiessen, Anna Work, Oliver, Jc Bq, Adam Neely, Jon I, David Zahara, nico, Mark Himmelberger, and Chris Borland! Your support helps make 12tone even better! Also, thanks to Jareth Arnold and Inés Dawson for proofreading the script to make sure this all makes sense hopefully!