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[Roy Brewster]

Hello,

I'm an untalented tone def noob that likes a challange. After many fustrating years of trying different instruments, I finally picked up the ukulele and taught myself to play. I can manage about a dozen chords and know where the notes are on the fret board. I have a few talented musician friend's and have picked up some music theory over the years. I'm interesting in writing folk music, but wouldn't mind dabbling in other genres. 

 

2 things I need help with, can anyone recommend an easy to use music writing app for android, and can anyone tell me what notes go with what chords?

 

Thank you 

Roy Brewster 

[Bcraig]

Hi there Roy I am new here and I myself have never pick up a ukulele and I have a iPhone 

but I found this on Pinterest 

maybe this might help Sir 

 

 

[Peggy]

Hi Roy, 

Welcome to SongStuff.  I set up a Pinterest account and gave them my interest, can't remember exactly, but i get chord charts, plus other info all the time, including ukulele.

Peggy

[Roy Brewster]

Sorry, I meant when writing music how do you know what chords match up with the notes in the melody. 

[Roy Brewster]

Hi Tom,

Actually, I understood what you said, putting it into practice is a different matter. I have a decent grasp on theory, just short on talent and application. Between what you said and a bit of online research I think I get the gist of matching the chord with my melody. In my case I have a chord progression I like and want to match a melodie to it. My instruments are the ukulele and ocarina in C. Thanks for the help.

 

Roy

[Kerry Parr]

What chords are you specifically wanting to know about? Ie- a key of C will have C-Dm-Em-F-G-Am-Bmdim and the key of G has similar chords except the Dm is now major the F gets sharpened and diminished and the Bm gets undiminished. So if your progression just has these chords C-Em-G-Am, it could be in either the key of C or G (or their relative keys but nevermind that for now). That at least narrows it down to 2. The only difference between them notewise is F and F# so you can play a melody using all the other notes (abcde and g) freely and then decide whether the F or F# sounds best. That should give you your answer.