Adding Chords to a Melody (5-Step Tutorial) - Choosing the Right Chords to Harmonize a Melody

. In this video, I teach a 5 step process for adding chords to a melody.

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💬 LESSON DESCRIPTION:
I get asked all the time about adding chords to a melody.
Whether you hear a melody in your head, sing it, or write one on the guitar, you might want to accompany it with chords.
Let’s say you’ve come up with something catchy.
You find the notes on your guitar, and you wonder, “What chords work over that melody? “How do I figure that out?”
In this lesson, I teach a 5 step process for adding chords to a melody.
By the end of the video, you’ll be able to apply a surprisingly simple principle to reveal the many chords at your disposal.
I hope you enjoy this lesson about adding chords to a melody and find it beneficial.
Let me know what you think in the comments.
Thanks! :)
- Jared

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🕛 VIDEO CONTENT OUTLINE (WITH TIMESTAMP LINKS):
0:00 - About this video
0:40 - Step 1: Make a melody
1:58 - Step 2: Determine scale numbers
5:18 - Step 3: Review chords in a key
8:13 - Step 4: Choose which notes to harmonize
14:15 - Step 5: Pick your favorite chords
15:20 - Free chord chart

[samwheeler-brown]

This was such a good video Jared! I’ve been going over this exercise a lot recently but the way you explain things just gave me so many shortcuts to get it learned and operating faster. Appreciate all you’re doing mate. Great teacher!

[GregCook-joyn]

You are an amazing teacher! Very helpful information. Thank you!

[grzegorzwojtaszak]

“Chapeau bas”, totally professional job, think you for it.

[ByTheSpirit]

Bro, this is such an amazing lesson. I've been trying to walk my way through this for some time after watching a separate chord melody video of yours. These tips will accelerate my learning I think. Appreciate it a bunch!

[alexalexanderman]

I have used this process for finding cords to any song I hear or where I already can sing the melody but I don't know the chords. If it is a song you have heard the correct chord of the ones that might work will become more clear because they will just sound right to your ear. But using a minor chord in place of a major will give the song a whole different vibe. Also adding the relative minor (i.e the 6th degree of the scale for the 1st degree) even when you could stay on the major will add a little flavor as well. where i find the challenge is where the harmony of the melody line is the 7, 2 etc degree of a certain chord. much harder to find. hopefully Jared will do a follow up to this video for more complex harmonies.

[jonhart-djfn]

this is fun, , i'm sure to learn some here.. i been training my ear to figure out melodies with a lot of difficult stuff between the melodies.. this is interesting leasson ty jared for sharing!

[mason]

Great lesson Jared - next week's sounds like fun too!

[wt]

Very great explanation, which I accidentally also figured out just last week 🙈 and of course you can also use the inversions of chords…

[vincej]

HI Jared! Nice video! However, at 13:10 you say "the 2 chord is 2, 4, 6, the 3 chord is 3, 5, 7, of the scale". So, I draw from this comment that when figuring out which chord belongs to which note, you just consider the note, and then the harmonising chord will be the 1, 3, 5 of that selected note - correct??

[glenndavid]

How would this work if my melody was in the Dorian scale?