So  if, if melodies are are exciting and new, then I wanna work out how I can make my melodies more exciting and new.
Because  when I hear a melody that blows me away,  it’s generally something new. I love listening to new music  and when a melody comes that has an interesting rhythm that I just go, oh my goodness, it just humbles me and excites me to try and write something that also has that kind of movement in it.  So,  okay,  here I’m just gonna share, show you some examples of this.
I  a little mess around with this today. This was really fun to do and  I hope it’s it’s interesting for you to listen to.
So what I did was  I, I I tried to write a verse, melody o some verse chords and then I tried some different approaches.
So  here’s what I came up with. I  miss you More.  It’s like I’m walking into Walls. Okay, so that was the first melody idea  I came up with.  And what I wanted to show you  was, that had one called the bar in the backing.
So the next example is the same melody, but I wanted to do more eighth notes backing, which is eight notes per bar. And it sounds like this. Â Okay, so can you hear that that sounded a little bit more energetic than the first version.
It certainly just does to me.  And then I wanted to show you, on Arpeggiated version. So this is even busier on the backing, but it has the same melody. Okay, here we go. Example number three, people  hear this, okay.  Okay,  so  we talked about push pull chords as well.
Do you remember that far back in time when we talked about push pull guards?  Hopefully. So, so this time I’ve tried to make the  chords more interesting. The tempo’s the same. It’s a really slow 73 BPM right at the bottom end of Ballad Land.
Okay, so,  okay, so  I dunno if you know of a band called Coldplay,  they do a lot of this kind of movement, DD that kind of movement and that’s what I tried to draw on the piano there.
So what if you, let’s do it one more time. What’s amazing about doing that is that the melody is still really on the beat. So it’s not a very exciting or rhythmical melody, but the backing, because it’s moving a lot more makes you feel the melodies a little bit more funky than it actually is. Â Okay?
 Still all the same melody. We’ve had four approaches to the same melody. Now what I did this time was I tried to make the melody busier of the original backing, which is really sparks. So I took the same lyric  and I tried a different approach. I tried to make it a bit more syncopated. I dunno how successful it is,  but it was fun to try.
 And one thing I’ve really noticed about songwriters, we are rubbish at rewriting melodies. We rewrite rewrite lyrics till our eyes bleed because we love it. But ask us to rewrite a melody and we’re a bit like,  no mate, that’s what I came up with. That’s the first thing. We’re not, I’m not gonna rewrite that. We’re very strange beasts like that. I hope a lot of you aren’t like that and you are happy to rewrite your melodies. But trust me, when I am writing songs, the things we’re rewriting in the room are generally melodic.
There might be some little lyrical fixes, but we’re not going back and forth on email for three months about a lyric. It, it’s the melody that we, we will try something different. The cool thing is you’ve got the first melody you have in the bank. It’s safe. Nothing’s gonna happen to, it’s not gonna disappear in a public smoke if you rewrite the melody and if you don’t get something better, you go back to it. No one, no one loses anything. Okay?
So this is the melody I came up with  Every day. I  miss  you. Okay? Sounds a bit forced to me.  And I got used to the other melody as well. That’s the worst thing about being a songwriter is that you get used to what you know and then you like what you know ’cause you’ve heard it too many times and then new stuff sounds like, nah, that’s sounds good.
But  over the syncopated backing it sounds a bit better I think  Day. Okay, what I did this time, I added more melody. I thought, well we haven’t got enough melody. I want more melody. Let, let’s write some extra lines  and try and cram a along  Day. Like  I’m  okay  Sounds, I don’t love it, but it sounds a bit more modern and it has more momentum and energy.
And  that’s what we were talking about. This is what this whole thing is about. Momentum and energy, bringing energy to a ballad. So here’s the next version I did  Every day. I’m Ms. Small. It’s like I’m walking into walls to hear, I want call, but I want no, I want, no I won.
Okay. And then I tried it with this backing. I’m just trying it the same backing that I used for the simple melody earlier on. Â Okay. And then over this backing, Â I Â like this.
 Okay, To me, I like that the best. I think that some of you have said that you like that one the best. I like the way that the kind of contra rhythms kind of work against each other. So it keeps it, you keep the, the listener kind of guessing. The listen has to do a little bit of work as well. We’re all, don’t be afraid of giving the listeners some work to do. We are really clever listeners. We like a little challenge, we like a crossword puzzle.
We like to hear where those things connect. You’d have to spoon feed something really simple all the time.  Then Happy Accident happened. And what happened was  I moved, the, the melody  by accident to different b and it ended up like this, which  all I did was I took the melody here.
Can you see? So  What I Did was I just moved it one B  to the right  and then it turned into this.
And I think this is really cool, but I may be wrong. I might just like it ’cause it was a nice accident  Call. I don’t, I don’t, Okay, so I just thought that was an interesting exercise. I hope that was cool for you.
I mean, let’s just go back to where we started, just through a reminder Every  day. I miss you Didn’t like it though.  It’s like I’m walking into walls.
That’s this, that, that’s pretty good. The first one. I just have to make the it a bit dier. It’s such a huge difference in style though, isn’t it?
