Song Writing and Construction
Reviews tempo, chorus, main melody, backing tracks and setting up solos. Also reviews bass and drum track construction.
This section is also devoted to helping you master songwriting on guitar. If you've learned some chords, but don't know how to string them together into something meaningful, or harmonise over them, these guitar songwriting lessons will help.
A good songwriter has the intuition to turn inspiration into an expressive piece of music when it hits them, capturing its raw essence and building on it intelligently. However, there are certain foundations in music theory that will give you the framework of reference you need to explore your ideas more efficiently. Foundations that have been referenced in music for centuries.
Lesson 1 - shows you how to use those basic open position chords you learn as a beginner to craft meaningful chord progressions based on a few important relationships.
Lesson 2 - introduces us to minor key relationships and the concept of relative key, switching between major and minor key to change the mood of your song.
Lesson 3 - looks at modifying and enhancing the relationships we learned in the first two parts, giving you more options for adding depth and variation to your songwriting.
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