The thing with melodies is that everyone here could take these same lyrics and write a different melody, even using the same chords. Check out the different videos of 4 chord songs, same chords different melodies. Melody is the pitch of your voice or the instruments voice. It is also how long or short the word or note. for example the word dark in the lyric could be a quarter or 1 beat, or it could be sang for a whole note 4 beats or even longer. It could be sang as a straight note or it could be raised or lowered containing several notes. A trick that is very helpful is, if you know what the first chord of the song is. 1.Put that chord into biab. 2. Now begin singing with that chord. Make sure you sing the melody you have for the song and do not just follow the chord. There are many songs that only use one chord. If you sing the melody properly when it is time to change chords your voice will be out of key with biab, you will hear it. That means it is time for a different chord. Just keep doing this until you get to the end of the song. Another trick is to take some old songs of the genre you are trying to write, and enter the chords to them into biab. Now write lyrics to fit the song. Most pros say they have used this method at one time or the other. You can also find sites that have different chord progressions enter them into biab and then write the lyrics to fit. I hope this helps. There are a lot of sites you can go to that talk about music theory and songwriting. A good book for this is Alfred's Teach Yourself Songwriting. I hope this helps!


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