Making Music

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I've been trying to figure out how to compose songs for about a year now. I have a good sense of rhythm, and I can create some decent synth instruments, but I just cannot come up with a melody that does not sound like crap.

For those that make music, is it a skill you're born with, or did you learn it by practicing, or take a class?

Some of it probably is a skill you're born with, but you can learn about things like how chords work like relations between chords. Knowing scales and how they work is also supah vital

Knowing piano would probably make it easier since a C and Am scale is very simple.