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Originally Posted by hakkolu
This is what I do to figure out chords to tunes and also to try and understand what people do when they play chord-melody. Is there another way?
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The key the tune is in and what chords belong to that key for starters when noodling up a chord-melody tune. Of course you will
soon run into various chord substitutions (especially if you consider the melody line part of the chord rather than a separate thing).
See if you can practice hearing individual four and five note in chords you make up. Say less typical chords such as 3-x-2-2-3-x
or 3-x-3-4-4-3 or x-3-x-4-5-5.
Practice recognizing a bit better the sound of chord categories (e.g. dominant and major seventh chords).
Personally when making up my own music I am listening to voices rather than thinking about notes.