Melody, also called a tune, is a sequence of musical notes that creates a recognizable and memorable tune.
When you hum a song without singing the lyrics, you’re essentially humming the melody.
Imagine a song you love! Let’s say Twinkle Twinkle Little Star or Happy Birthday to You. The part you hum along to, the one that gets stuck in your head – that’s the melody.
It’s like the main story of the music, the sweet tune that makes your toes tap.
So, in simple terms, we can say that melody is like humming the tune without the words of the song.
Meaningful Musical Sentence
A melody is a meaningful musical sentence.
It is made of different notes that have different pitches and rhythms. Pitch is how high or low a note sounds, and rhythm is how long or short a note lasts.
Think of it like a sentence in a story:
Each pitch (high or low sound) is like a word.
The rhythm (length of each note) tells you how fast or slow to say the words.
The intervals (distance between pitches) are like the space between words and the ups and downs in your voice when you tell the story.
When all these things come together, you get a meaningful musical sentence that sings a story to your ears!
Piano Notes for Songs
- Faded - Alan Walker - Notes and Chords (Updated)
- A Million Dreams - The Greatest Showman (Easy - Updated)
- Everything I Do, I Do It for You - Bryan Adams
- A Sky Full of Stars - Coldplay (Notes and Chords)
- Shape of You - Ed Sheeran (Melody and Chords)
- Diamonds - Rihanna
- Demons - Imagine Dragons
- Let It Be - The Beatles
- Believer - Imagine Dragons (Melody and Chords)
- The Winner Takes It All - ABBA
- My Heart Will Go On - Celine Dion (Easy - Melody and Chords)
- The Scientist - Coldplay
- Let Her Go - Passenger
- Shallow - Lady Gaga - Bradley Cooper
- Alone - Alan Walker
- Perfect - Ed Sheeran
Easy Piano Songs For Beginners
- A Million Dreams - The Greatest Showman (Easy - Updated)
- Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
- We Wish You A Merry Christmas
- Christmas Song: Jingle Bells
- A Sky Full of Stars - Coldplay (Notes and Chords)
- Let It Be - The Beatles
- My Heart Will Go On - Celine Dion (Easy - Melody and Chords)
- Yesterday - The Beatles (Easy for Beginners)
- Thunder - Imagine Dragons (Easy)
- The Scientist - Coldplay
- Birthday Song - Happy Birthday to You
- Imagine - John Lennon
- Wings - Birdy (Very Easy)
- Yellow - Coldplay (Easy)
- The Wheels on the Bus - Kids Song
- Take Me Home, Country Roads - John Denver (Easy)
- Row, Row, Row Your Boat - Song for Children
- What a Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong
- Dame tu Cosita - El Chombo
- Baby Shark Song
Piano Notes
- Say Something - A Great Big World - Christina Aguilera
- Earth Song - Michael Jackson
- Viva La Vida - Coldplay
- A Thousand Years - Christina Perri - Slow and Easy
- All I Want for Christmas Is You - Mariah Carey
- You Belong With Me - Taylor Swift
- Yesterday - The Beatles (Easy for Beginners)
- Thunder - Imagine Dragons (Easy)
- Counting Stars - OneRepublic
- Easy on Me - Adele
- Bad Habits - Ed Sheeran
- Right Here Waiting for You - Richard Marx
- Rolling in the Deep - Adele
- All of Me - John Legend
- Let It Go - Idina Menzel - Frozen
- Merry Christmas - Ed Sheeran and Elton John
- Shake It Off - Taylor Swift (melody and chords)
- Treat You Better - Shawn Mendes
- Attention - Charlie Puth
- Paradise - Coldplay
- We Don't Talk Anymore - Charlie Puth ft. Selena Gomez
- River Flows In You - Yiruma - Notes and Chords
- In the End - Linkin Park
- Clocks - Coldplay
- Yellow - Coldplay (Easy)
- Something Just Like This - Coldplay - The Chainsmokers
- Darkside - Alan Walker
- Jingle Bell Rock - Christmas Song
- Halo - Beyonce - I Can Feel Your Halo
- O Christmas Tree - Christmas Song
- Ocean Eyes - Billie Eilish
- As It Was - Harry Styles
- Bad Guy - Billie Eilish
- Closer ft. Halsey - The Chainsmokers
- You Are The Reason - Calum Scott
- Anti-Hero - Taylor Swift
- The Spectre - Alan Walker
- Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer - Christmas Song
- I Don’t Wanna Live Forever - Taylor Swift and Zayn
- Lovely - Billie Eilish
- Imagine - John Lennon
- Radioactive - Imagine Dragons
- Gravity Falls Theme
- Delicate - Taylor Swift
- Set Fire to the Rain - Adele
- Wake Me Up - Avicii
- Let Me Down Slowly - Alec Benjamin
- All Falls Down - Alan Walker
- Falling - Harry Styles
- Stay With Me - Sam Smith