I'm new to composing and I'm finding it a bit awkward to place chords behind my melody. I have the first chord sounding right, but I just can't seem to find a nice sounding chord to follow. I'm trying to build a chord from the notes in the melody, but is this the wrong approach? Should I instead try to work from my first chord and find a chord progression from there as opposed to taking notes from my melody?
sing the song, in real life. in real time. then, once you get to know it, then try to find the most important moment to put a chord. and just figure out what that 1 chord is for that one moment. if you try to just put chords one after another, people are gonna think you are some kind of chord machine, and you will never pass a captcha