Summary: How to harmonize melodies on the piano; learn this and more in this free online piano lesson series taught by expert pianist and professional musician Tony Newton.
A professional musician and bassist since the 1960s, Tony Newton has been hailed as a "super genius [who] will go down in history as one of the most vital path-forgers of our era” by...read more
"So it is going from a C to a F so we go. So okay so we found that in this case that we use a C minor chord, so the F chord, back to the C minor, then we use the E flat for some color because the E flat is a melody to the C minor. That is one way of doing it but that is the quickest way of learning how to melodious or harmonize the melody once you come up with up. I found this melody so I play it just use your ear. So there are several ways like I appreggio those chords because it is a slow moving melody. It could be very well played like this. You would play that necessarily like this until you get the rhythm which we have talked about so let's go. So that is how we make harmony to a melody and write melodies on a piano for songs."
eHow Article: How to Harmonize Melodies on the Piano