How to write good melodies

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A melody is a succession of notes that have different pitches and durations, in western music it's played along with what we call chords (group of notes played together in the same time). It's a very important part of the song, that's why you have to take care of it using the right songwriting techniques.

A lot of new songwriters get stuck in this component (melody), because they think it's hard to write a good one, i'll tell you that it's not easy, but you can do it if you follow the right techniques. First of all you need to have a good chord progression to start with, these chords will act like the support or structure of your melodies, the next thing to watch for is to choose a rhythm to your melody, actually this is up to you, you have to use songwriting ideas to decide what rhythm you're going to be using.

Writing melodies actually requires some basic understanding of music theory, because you have some restrictions to watch for, for example you can't introduce a note that doesn't belong to your key.

In order to impress your listeners, you need to have a very strong melody, new songwriters usually overlook this part because they think that lyrics and chords are more important, "this is not true". People or "listeners" usually don't recognize chords or bass lines, but the think that catches their attention is usually the melody, in most cases it's the one that determines the good song.