# Scaler 2 Workflow | Starting with a Melody
**URL:** https://forum.scalermusic.com/t/scaler-2-workflow-starting-with-a-melody/6018
**Category:** Scaler 2 Tutorials
**Created:** [January 8, 2021, 8:29am UTC](https://forum.scalermusic.com/t/scaler-2-workflow-starting-with-a-melody/6018 "2021-01-08T08:29:23Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@davide](https://forum.scalermusic.com/u/davide)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2021, 8:29am UTC](https://forum.scalermusic.com/t/scaler-2-workflow-starting-with-a-melody/6018/1 "2021-01-08T08:29:23Z")
I’ve been asked several times on YT to create a basic easy to follow video on how to use Scaler to detect a melody and go from there rather than by starting with chords. Hope you enjoy.
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgF6TN81nzQ)
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### Author:  [@ClaudioPorcellana](https://forum.scalermusic.com/u/ClaudioPorcellana)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2021, 5:47pm UTC](https://forum.scalermusic.com/t/scaler-2-workflow-starting-with-a-melody/6018/2 "2021-01-08T17:47:57Z")
OUCH!
no subtitles for me SOB
😆
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### Author:  [@LivingEdge\_Studios](https://forum.scalermusic.com/u/LivingEdge_Studios)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2021, 6:29pm UTC](https://forum.scalermusic.com/t/scaler-2-workflow-starting-with-a-melody/6018/3 "2021-01-08T18:29:40Z")
That’s a real bummer… 😟
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### Author:  [@davide](https://forum.scalermusic.com/u/davide)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2021, 7:50pm UTC](https://forum.scalermusic.com/t/scaler-2-workflow-starting-with-a-melody/6018/4 "2021-01-08T19:50:01Z")
Strange, YT automatically adds captions to my videos. Maybe they haven’t appeared yet?
## Troubleshoot automatic captions issues
If your video doesn’t generate automatic captions, it could be due to one or more of the following reasons:
- The captions aren’t available yet due to processing complex audio in the video.
- Automatic captions don’t support the language in the video.
- The video is too long.
- The video has poor sound quality or YouTube doesn’t recognize the speech.
- There’s a long period of silence at the beginning of the video.
- There are multiple speakers whose speech overlaps.
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### Author:  [@ClaudioPorcellana](https://forum.scalermusic.com/u/ClaudioPorcellana)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2021, 10:03pm UTC](https://forum.scalermusic.com/t/scaler-2-workflow-starting-with-a-melody/6018/5 "2021-01-08T22:03:22Z")
they appeared after a while, indeed…
HAL9000 is lazy today or it simply lost a card
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### Author:  [@cbz](https://forum.scalermusic.com/u/cbz)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2021, 9:31pm UTC](https://forum.scalermusic.com/t/scaler-2-workflow-starting-with-a-melody/6018/6 "2021-01-16T21:31:22Z")
Really excellent video David. I had figured out a fair bit but this pulled in a lot of features plus how to meaningfully combine them.
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### Author:  [@giocchiettaraskyna](https://forum.scalermusic.com/u/giocchiettaraskyna)
#### Post date: [February 29, 2024, 6:57am UTC](https://forum.scalermusic.com/t/scaler-2-workflow-starting-with-a-melody/6018/7 "2024-02-29T06:57:59Z")
I saw this beautiful video but do not understand one thing. If i play a melody in the piano roll, and then make recognize the audio to scaler, it will come with chords, can i use these chords as lazy first solution and drag it back to the daw under the melody? Said that is beautiful also to experiment and have fun along as Davide suggests, coming then with a more precise progression
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### Author:  [@giocchiettaraskyna](https://forum.scalermusic.com/u/giocchiettaraskyna)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2024, 2:13pm UTC](https://forum.scalermusic.com/t/scaler-2-workflow-starting-with-a-melody/6018/8 "2024-03-02T14:13:39Z")
I think i get. for small melodies is a possibility, for complex ones not, because recognizes also not essential passages