This Stupid TRICK Helped Me Learn 1000s of Chord Progressions
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Why is C the 1…F the 4..and G the 5?? Someone plse simply explain this to me. Thanks
love it
I'm going to rememeber this video.
Great stuff. thanks for sharing.
The algorithm fed me three guitar videos and for the first time I had the thumbs down. I actually gave a thumbs down to the first two but your video is actually practical and novel . Great work!
Ive used a method to find chord progressions that goes like this: take your melody (gotta start with a melody). For every note, find all the chords you can think of with that note and write them down in a column. Do this for each note (or short string of notes) in your melody. When you’re done, just pick and choose chords from each column until you find a combination that works. This will train your brain to find alternative chords when you’re not happy with the chords you’ve written.
First off… Some of us gotta decipher Roman Numerals. ????
Not to be that guy, but adding "mi" after a chord to note that it is a minor chord is a redundancy: just writing it the chord in lowercase is enough
Perfect pitch is a neat trick but it doesn't automatically lead to musicality. People who can name colours don't automatically become great painters. 🙂 What works with progressions is playing them in every key. As Art Tatum would say, "play the tune in every key, and it will come to you." Good luck. What matters most is finding progressions that make sense to you. 3 months? (1/week)? For $2,000? Save yourself some dough: grab 1 short piece you like from the children's pieces by great composers (Bach, Hassler, Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Bartok, Oscar Peterson, Martial Solal) and play it in all keys. Add your own lyrics. Great workshop at low cost. And how good are you at memorizing lyrics? Memorize lyrics, but name the notes they fall on. Everyone needs to 1_name the pitches and 2_count out rhythms, to become a musical communicator—whether your pitch is perfect, relative, intervallic, mobile do, imitative, colour-based or rhythm-based. Cheers, from Ottawa, Canada
Thanks for the advice.
Before GPS I was in sales in the SF Bay Area, I knew everything by heart. My wife used to always ask when going somewhere where we were turning next and I would say, I don’t know but when I get there I’ll know (because it would be a gas station, a sign, a park or something that triggered my memory), honestly, we were never lost and always got to our destination on time. Now GPS has ruined most of that and I’m lazy. I’ve never heard music with that analogy but it is spot on golden! I think I’ve “GPS’d” my music and now it’s back to the basics to re-learn some old tried and true habits. New sub here, keep up the good work, it’s inspirational.
show , don't tell
I bought your chord progression database book hoping to see the progressions broken i to categories like at 2:50 (Power Progressions, Leading to V) but they weren't. Any chnce you can add those kind of emotional categories to yhe progressions?
Great video. I love how you explained this and I'm going to start doing this
In other words, the stupid trick of doing the work.
Genius
Awesome!
good advice !!
Thanks man 🙂
Solid advice
Where can I get the real boots from, paper,
im in.
man i don't understand chord progressions in the slightest lol, im just making melodies the hell of it ????
Yessss!!! Thank you so much for this lesson!
Thanks for the insight.
I’ll try it and, thank you.
good video commenting to help out
Intelligent and articulate. Subscribed.
Great video man
Ahh, this is very similar to how I'm trying to build my repertoire for acoustic performance. The "Closed Book technique" is a great name for it! I basically read my set-list and grab a song that I'm not sure I know and I try to learn it.
I'm also studying jazz with a tutor, so I'm learning Beyond the Sea, which is a great song for jumping around keys because it's in F, then it's in A, then it's in C, then back to F.
Wonderfully presented – eloquent and informative. A voice to be listened to. Thank you Melvin!
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…wish I’d heard this when growing up…sound advice..
I was listening until my ass heard Ed Sheeran ☠️
This is some of the best advice I have encountered on YouTube! It is certainly great advice for learning and applying music theory, but once you "get it" you can apply the principles of this method to almost anything you wish to learn. great video!
Thank you!
I wanna learn that progression from Gloria from GNX by Kendrick — feels like it’s the same one from Father Time from Mr. Morale!
I honestly didn't expect this to expand my mind, but it has. I just subscribed, thank you!
Good video. ❤
Immediately subscribed!
Awesome vide!. What you outlined sounds like exactly what I have been doing. I'll be working on this method. I read the Hookpad Theory books, but definitely can go deeper with the analyzing and internalizing the chord progression examples they provide.I'm going to pick out a progression now
stop trying to find easy ways out. just learn to play
any example ?
Tyler's chord progressions have been dope since Goblin tbf.
Great vid. Theory’s never quite clicked for me, so rely more on trying to find on the instrument what I’m hearing in my head. But that car analogy… ???? 20+ years of driving and countless arguments about why I won’t just follow an app (because that’s how you learn the roads!). 30+ years of music, the same logic has not once occurred.
My sporadic attempts at learning more theory are typically reading without even an instrument to hand – which is more like following the route on an app without even getting in the car. ????
Seems so obvious now you’ve said it. ????????
Excellent tutorial and a great analogy using GPS!
This is one of the most practical and helpful videos about songwriting that I've ever seen. Thank you ????
I really like your approach. I learned the chord number idea in theory classes in college. It opened up music for me in ways I'd never thought of, especially when transposing songs to different keys. Something that also helped was learning inversions like root position (I, III, V) triad, 1st inversion (III, V, I) and 2nd inversion (V, I, III). For instance, a 'C' chord in root position is C, E, G. 1st inversion is E, G, C. 2nd inversion is G, C, E. All three are 'C' chords just the notes are in a different order.
Thanks!
Nice. Thanks!
IV-V-I