#80 Harmonising a melody

When writing music, you’ll often come up with a chord progression first, and then find a melody to fit it. Other times, however, you may need to take the opposite approach – beginning with a melody and then needing to add chords to underpin it. A good example of this is when creating a vocal remix – you strip out all existing musical elements except for the vocal, then you have to come up with an entirely new piece of music to fit beneath it. In this scenario, then, how do you come up with a progression that works?

The process of adding chords to an existing melody is known as , and while