I want to go through some beginner music
theory for songwriters.
Music theory from the beginning.
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Where do you start with music theory?
How can you apply music theory
when you're songwriting songs?
If we play on an instrument, the best way
is to learn chord or for
instance, guitar or piano.
And make songs from that.
But from the beginning, music theory seems
overwhelming and it looks like
you're never going to learn.
I have some things that can
limit yourself to music theory
so you can be more creative.
How to build a chord,
major and minor chords
contains three notes
that builds into a chord.
When you play your chord,
you maybe not think
about what makes them
sound the way they sound.
If we take C Major chord
that contains C, E, and G,
that is the first, third, and
the fifth note in the scale.
This applies to every
major and minor chord,
the one, three, five, builds your chord.
If we look at a piano, a
major chord looks like this,
one, three, five.
And through piano, the
major and minor chord
looks the same way wherever you play them.
This maybe seems overwhelming,
but if you learn the
one, three, five, you will
be able to play beautiful
songs on your instruments.
And the benefits you get
as the songwriter is that
you can make songs that
sound the way you want
them to sound.
You can understand where to go next when
you're choosing your chords to your song.
When you are all fired
up and want to start
writing your song, you
take your instrument
and you try to sing a melody.
You try different combinations of chords
and you try to sing your
melody a little more.
You strum on your guitar and try to start
your song but you fail every time.
On your piano, everything starts to feel
like you are playing the same
thing over and over again.
You can't find a way to
get going with this song
and you're stuck trying, stuck playing
in hope that it will be better tomorrow.
I know this feeling and it
happens from time to time,
you are questioning yourself
if you're able to write songs.
When this happens I start to limit myself
with chord progression
and one easy way is to use
the circular fifths.
If you want to know more
about the circular fifths,
you can press here and continue
to learn more about that.
The circular fifths contains
every major and minor
chord progression, so
you can limit yourself
to one key at a time.
Don't have any rush,
you've got the time to make
your song sound fantastic.
"The most liberating
way for me to write is
"when I'm not thinking at all."
Don't forget to write for the joy of it.
It's important for you that you do all
you can to achieve your
goals with your songwriting.
No goal is to big or too small,
but from the start, you can take shortcuts
to get going with your songwriting.
One shortcut is here,
where you have a back end
track C major scale.
Where you have every
chord laid out for you.
And if you want to learn
more about C major scale,
you can press here, and if you press here
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See you over there.
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