Captain Melody

A musical motif or motive is a recurring musical set of notes or a series of intervals played in succession. I know it's difficult to hear music and tell what chords are playing. If it is difficult to play chords on beat one while improvising in the right hand, this is a good indication that you need to become more comfortable with your right hand soloing before trying any fancier comping rhythms.

Have the strong notes of the melody contained within the chord. I find myself to be in the middle,meaning, at times I will start with music but find myself not being able to finish the music because I feel the lyrics are needed to help with the direction. In such combinations with existing songs, only the chorus is typically used, and sometimes not in its complete form, but rather only the most memorable portion of it.

Tinkly high pitched sounds crossed with rumbly bass sounds obviously compliment one and other, but you may also want to try complimentary sounds that are closer together in frequency range. As you look through the song, you usually can get an idea of how it will go. This will ease you through when trying to play the correct rhythm during sight-reading.

Making the last C note long, or adding more notes (in different octaves) to the ending I chord, will give your song a solid, satisfying ending, too. In my tab charts I follow this convention by making the tab grace note much smaller than the main melody notes.

Both are important and vital to a great song, but the music must exist to put the lyrics on display. There are many websites, books, and videos about bass, music, and other instruments. We'll get into how most beat making software works a bit later, but basically you program sounds into a pattern using your mouse offset type beat instrumental or record yourself playing them with a MIDI hardware controller.