u/amethyst353

My channel meets all the requirements (I checked over and over again) and I even tried the renaming hack but still nothing. I waited 2 days and still have the error when I try linking it. I have two music videos for the songs I uploaded on distrokid, and have a topic channel with those same songs. My names match exactly. idk what I'm missing here.

Edit: I'd like to apologize if I seemed negative in the comments. I was just frustrated with my own confusion. I appreciate all the advice💕

I want to make lofi songs (mostly using piano as the instrument) from scratch but I'm stuck at writing melodies. I have a grasp on the chord progressions now but I'm struggling to understand how to create melodies on top of them.

I tried searching the internet for how to do this but I'm not finding anything helpful. I just get results for other things like how to make chord progressions or the "how to write a song" results will just tell you to come up with a chord progression and then will say "then you just make up a melody". Lol but how?

I understand to keep it in the same key as the chord progression but how do I make sure it sounds good with each chord besides just doing arpeggios?

If it helps, the chords I have for my current work in progress are Am7 Dm7 G9 and Cmaj7 but I want to understand the theory on how to make melodies with any chord progression

I tried using my piano keyboard with bandlab for the first time. Just bought a midi USB cable and it recognizes the notes I play no issue but not the sustain. The notes are very short. This happened when I used noteflight to transfer the notes from there too (but only sometimes?) when I had half notes it played sticado. How do I get my notes to not register as sticado?