First, let's start off by getting some kind of pleasant chord progression to harmonize the first verse with. It's not mandatory that you do this first, but I"m doing it for the purpose of this exercise. The advantage of having a chord progression first is that you can see where you're going to choose your melodic words.

Click here to listen. Since I'm doing this in 3 chords, I just go from C to F 3 times and then C to G. I play C for 1 bar and F for another bar, creating 2 bar phrases.

We'll take the first 2 bar phrase, C to F. We look at the first line of our lyric.

Was there something - in the sky?

We have here 7 syllables, and I'm going to break them up in 4+3. That means, for the first part, I can use a 4 note melodic word and for the second part I'll use a 3 note melodic word.

Spoken example

This example uses a C chord scale (4) for the first half and an F in second inversion, variation 2 (3) for the second half. I selected these cause the last note of the C chord scale goes easily to the F chord. Always remember your nearest tones and common tones.

C chord scale ____ F second inversion 5th variation

We add the rhythm from our spoken example over the 2 chords

Sung Example

So, that's the first line of the lyric. On to part two.