Now that writing songs is part of my homework, I am royally screwed. Can someone please tell me how to write a melody? I’ve learned how to write harmony… but melody lines hate me.
Just copy somebody’s song. 
if they don’t know you use this they will expect you to suck to the point of no return.
Don’t have time for that. They give me a harmony that lasts for about 4 measures, and say, “ok, write a melody for this in the next 5 minutes!”… I don’t have time to look up a song that has the same harmony as that measure (plus I’m in class, so no computers).
EDIT: I have learned the rules/guidelines for classical music (Be conjunct, be contour, have each phrase’s focus point be the highest note, always use notes that are in the harmony, etc.), but what don’t know how to write a melody line for is jazz or rock. That’s what I’m scared about. My teacher says there are no rules she knows of and I’m like ಠ_ಠ and she’s like . There has to be at least some tips I can get!I do know that Jazz uses 7th chords way more often, but other than that, I got nothing.
I like how out of everyone here at Notessimo, guitarskills has to make music in school and get a grade for it.
And… you won’t post something? come on! you make good music!
Jazz: Think of every note as a chord. You should know that any chord can have any notes. The harmony should be notes, while the melody should be the chord notes.
Say you have a F# note. You could use A, B, C, C#, D, and E for a melody. Sure, you could have F, G, and G# as notes in the melody, but it wouldn’t sound right or pleasant.
Sheet 2 of my new demo of my next song shows what I mean.
The only problem is once the bass and strat guitar together play the notes G# and A at the same time, still it doesn’t sound too bad.
KEPT.
well what I do is that I usually imagine that the harmony is playing in the background of my melody, and only chose notes that form decent sounding intervals within the chord(usually this is notes that are in the chord) and have either the same or a faster rhythm) this difference with jazz is that it has far higher tolerance for dissonance than classical, and rock uses a backbeat and focuses on the lower note more.
EDIT: I posted this at the same time as octo so
also Octo confused Harmony and Melody, harmony is chords melody is notes.
So… m3 M3 m6 M6 p5 p8 p1 and sometimes p4? or does rock have a different list of good intervals than classical?
Why do you have to go so technical?
It’s like all the people who know musical theory aren’t pro at music… 
p5 is the one I see most, all of these work I also hear m4
so do you guys just keep on trying to come up with a melody over and over again until it sounds right or do you do it right the first time?
make it, see how it sounds, then try again if it doesn’t work
Yeah, I seem to have a problem with that. I rage quit if it doesn’t sound good
try not to, it helps when you are able to make changes to the score midway, just work in the rules, it should be fairly simple to produce a at least OK product.
I usually just play random stuff rapidly [in no “real” structure], and then when I hear something cool, it’ll be my new melody.
Pretty much all my past 5 song’s melodies have been from studying something and testing it or from random notes.
Normally I don’t go near melodies, but when I have to right them I just keep it really simple and only really use notes from the scale, mostly from the triad. Why don’t you ask your teacher for help?
I see melodies in your music all the time… And I have… I know classical music, but I want to learn rock music melody lines, which she says you just have to be able to get the “style” of it.
because I don’t the non-technical names for the intervals…
Tuplet formulas:
*You can not insert a triplet, put you can make a 12/8 or 6/8 bar
Triplet-((10 2/3 x tempo)/16) + 100= Triplet
Example (10 2/3 x 100)=1066
1066/16= 66-67
166-167
Quintuplet:-((12.8 x tempo)/16) + 100= Quintuplet tempo
0-regular eight notes at 100
1-triplets
2-Quintuplets