Understanding chords to improve songwriting

The Songwriting Series ‘Understanding Chords’ will give you an understanding of how music is structured. It is a guide to how contemporary music is formed in a way that makes songwriting easier, faster and more intuitive.

Understanding Chords will help you discover, in a straight forward and concise manner, how you can create your own music to support your lyrics.

Developed by Chris Richter, with over 7 years of one on one music teaching experience and over 20 years of performance experience, you will discover how easy it is to create your own music.

• Introduction
• Chromatic Scale
• Sharps (#) and Flats (b)
• Semitones
• Tones
• Scales
• D Major Scale
• Chords
• Minor Chords
• More Minor Chords
• Other Chords
• Other Chords - Your Turn
• Chord Groups
• Example Chord Groups
• Chord demonstration using C Major Chords
• Chord Groups Summary
• Chord demonstration using D Major Chords
• Chord Groups So Far
• Bonus: chord examples
• Form Principles
• Form Principles - Example
• Hook
• Instrumentation
• Demo Recording
• What Next?