Tagged with 'harmony'
The Folky Beginner Chords
The First Chords You Learn On A Guitar. These are the first chords every guitar player typically starts with when learning guitar. I tend to call these chords the “folky beginner chords”, just to give them a name, but to be fair: these chords are neither “folky” nor “beginner chords”. Besides folk music: you can … The Folky Beginner Chords
A Weird, Intricate Tuning You Want to Try on Guitar
Alternate and Open Tunings. There is a difference. Open tunings: when you hit all open strings, they sound like an open chord. For example: when you tune the A string up a whole step to B or down a whole step to G, you get the notes E G/B D G B E, which adds … A Weird, Intricate Tuning You Want to Try on Guitar
Songwriting Tricks and Secret Every Songwriter Should Know
Songwriting Tricks and Secret Every Songwriter Should Know The process of writing songs gets more fun the better you get at it. The more you know about harmony, melody, and song form, the better your songs will get. That knowledge also makes the songwriting process much more effective, and hence less tedious. The feeling you … Songwriting Tricks and Secret Every Songwriter Should Know
Posted in Harmony/Chords, Song-Writing Tagged Chords | - Part 3 Los Angeles Guitar Lessons by Vreny Van Elslande, Constant structure, drone, harmony, line cliche, Modal Interchange, Music Theory | Los Angeles Guitar Lessons by Vreny Van Elslande, Open tunings, Ostinato, pedalboard, Secondary Dominants, songwriting, Tritone Substitution V7’s. Dim 7th chords
Songwriting (Part 4): How Chord Progressions Work
Songwriting (Part 4): Understanding How Chord Progressions Work This is a continuation from songwriting blogs published in past weeks, which you can check here: How To Write Chords To Your Melody Lines Fretboard Mastery for Better Songwriting Some Scale And Chord Theory The Importance of I IV V I, IV, V: The 1st, 4th, and … Songwriting (Part 4): How Chord Progressions Work
Songwriting: How To Write Chords To Your Melody Lines!
Songwriting: How To Write Chords To Your Melody Lines! In my guitar and songwriting lessons, students often ask me how they can figure out the chords to their melodies when they are writing a song. While this is a pretty large topic to cover, I can get you on the fast track giving you some … Songwriting: How To Write Chords To Your Melody Lines!
