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Song Science #1: How Pros Use 6 Chords to Write Hit Songs

Offered By: Udemy

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Songwriting Courses Music Theory Courses Melody Courses Chord Progressions Courses

Course Description

Overview

Practical songwriting theory for songwriters. Break out of your songwriting habits and develop new chord progressions.

What you'll learn:
  • Create chord progressions that invoke emotion in the listener
  • Understand how to use melody and chords to create different emotions
  • See real examples of how professional songwriters use chords in hit songs

Songwritingcan be a lot of fun when you understand how chords work.

Especially if you've been using the same chords over and over again and want to write something fresh!

In this course, I show you how professional songwriters put together chords when songwriting. There are certain rules they follow. Once you understand the rules you can choose to use or break them.

We'll use real life example to demonstrate how the 6 most used chords in popular music work and work together.

Every lecture builds on the next lecture and is easy to follow. By the end you should be able to take a song concept, and start building chord progressions that make sense.

I you love songwriting and you want to start writing songs outside of your comfort zone, this course is for you.

I hope to see you on the inside!

-R


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