Great morning to you! I have had a very productive week so far. Kind of getting my schedule and routine down as I prepare to start my college courses. I have it just about worked out, and you will see waaaay more post 
…3 so far this week woo hoo!
I should do ten cartwheels right now! This next tip is what I have been searching for. I’ve gotten a lot of music theory down, but I still struggled with understanding how to fit chords to my melody. I’ve even posted about this before: http://www.mstrismusic.com/2011/05/how-toadd-piano-chords-to-any-melody/. Still hadn’t quite grasped the concept the way I’d like. This musical glitch had me stuck doing chords first almost 90% of the time. I must add, there is absolutely nothing wrong with working chords first. Since I am still learning chords, and only know a few, I was beginning to feel a bit limited.
I guess some days I have to be in the right mind state,today I found a site that seems written for producers like me:
www.how-to-write-music.com
Chip out a block of time for visiting this one. There are tons of tips to help you take your music to the next level..
Here is an excerpt from:Putting Chords to an Existing Melody, the article I am jumping for joy over
What you should get from this section:
After completing this section, you should be able to take an existing melody and put chords, and a bass line to it to create a strong structure.
There are several things you can do to help you put a chord progression to an existing melody that will make your life a lot easier. Here are a few of them:
The first thing you should try to do is work out what key it’s in. This will make it a lot easier, as if you know what key you’re playing in, you can pick chords from that key (see section on theory). How do you do this?
Well, first of all, play the melody. Are there lots of sharps or flats in there? If so, look at the key signatures in the theory section and see what ones match the notes you’re playing. Do they match any particular key? If there are F#’s in the melody, but C naturals, then it might be in G. If there are lots of Bb’s and Eb’s but natural A’s it may be in Bb major.
If that hasn’t helped, then see what note the melody starts and finishes on. Quite often a melody will start and/or end on the note of the dominant chord in the key. So if it’s in A for example, it will quite often start on that note and/or end on that note…………
Click here to read more—>Put Chords To A Melody
You’ll need a little knowledge of music theory to fully understand. Don’t know any?…No problem… the website has all the help you’ll need!
Happy Beat Making To All
Pz Til Later!~
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