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sorry to bug anyone, but i want to learn how to copose such lovely piano melodies!

if anyone can help me learn the basics of composing please guide me!

It's quite simple, trust me you can make GREAT music, also depends on what software you're using. I recommend finale series. Anyway, start fresh, single staff project, and try out chords, and melodic sequence, keep in mind previous measures so you don't wander off too far away. Basically relax, concentrate, and most importantly USE YOUR EMOTION TO YOUR ADVANTAGE. Anger and Sadness are great ones for composition. Have fun. :D

1: Think of a melody, the most important, keep your melody around 8-16 bars, DO NOT HAVE A MELODY THAT'S MORE THAN 16 BARS! SIMPLICITY IS VERY IMPORTANT!

2: If you want to use chords, don't use 4 notes chords, use 3 notes chords and keep it simple (If it's your first composition)

3: Once you composed your melody, you add second voice, or third voice. But HARMONY HAS TO BE STRICT! Chord progressions has to follow the rules. Because if you mess up with chords, you'll piece will end up messy, and really hard to develope later on.

4: Once your main melody is finished. Which hopefully around 16 bars. Now you can develope your main melody. Many ways to develope it. 1: Change keys, but try not to change to weird keys. If your piece is C major, then make your melody to relative minor, or G major or F major. Great key to change to is five notes above your main melody key. (I recommend but it's up to you) 2: Change rhythems but usually it's not recommended, but base your rhythems to the main melody, and hopefully we (listeners) will find some evidence that the developed rhythems has some similarity to the main melody rhythems. 3: If your really good, change your melody to a totally different mood, rhythems and keys. But if you choose that, you need to becarefuly about the fluency of the piece. (highly NOT recommended)

5: First composition, keep it short, dont' make too long and don't add too many parts to your piece. Once you completed a short, simple piano piece, then you can add violin, cello and maybe harp to give more color and richness to your piece, but before that you have to achieve the above requirements (AND MAYBE MORE)

GOOD LUCK, There are lots of ways to compose, but you still need to follow some harmony, counterpoint rules. It's not FREE FOR ALL kinda thing.

How much do you know about the piano? Do you know about the different chord types, major and minor keys etc? If this is your first time composing I would recommend as the others said concentrating on the main melody, but try and bear in mind while composing that you're going to want to put chords in on the left hand afterwards so try and choose melody notes that are easy for you to put chords to underneath - i.e. try to avoid ending up searching for some hideous Am7 chord because you made your melody too complex ;) Keep it simple to start off with because as you learn more about what you want from your piece you can change it as you go. Do feel free to post it up on here if you get stuck as to how to continue or are looking for advice :) Best of luck!