Write Chord Progressions That Work Together - Verse, Chorus & Bridge
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- čas přidán 25. 06. 2024
- Practical tips and techniques for composing satisfying chord progressions that flow and make sense. Increase the emotional impact and interest of your music! Live demonstration - bring your questions!
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This is still the ONLY video I can find on this.
What a fantastic lesson. Many of these I've picked from various sources, but to have this all in one lesson is magical. Dude, amazing content!
Glad it was helpful!
Actually a very insightful video. Thank you
this video makes me feel like i finally can understand music better, this whole time i've been trying to figure it out but never had someone explain it to me so well
Happy to hear that!
Best video ever. So clear and clever. Genius. Full of examples. Not only in the « HOW » but also the « WHY ». So complete and understandable, thanks for the very inspiring and useful content from France 🇫🇷❤️
Tips regarding contrast were brilliant, straightforward and effective.
Man, you’re one of the best teachers on CZcams. FACTS
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Appreciate that!
FACTS !
I've been stuck at this spot in my journey for a while now, and I'm kicking myself for how simple it actually is (conceptually I mean) LOL. Honestly I'm pretty sure I've heard the concept of unity between keys explained before in different ways but your explanation finally made it make sense to me. I went and practiced the idea with relative minors and it finally clicked. Thank you so much! I'm finally excited to practice again.
Nice! Happy to hear it
Informative and accessible, great stream! thank you!
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it.
Appreciate your great support always 🙏🏼
This is golden!
The contrast makes it, can be easy to forget.
Thank u!
This is the video I’ve been looking for, thank you, really well presented..
You are AWESOME! Your way of explaining and demonstrating things is so unique, you make everything seem simple! I have learned a lot from your streams and I always put them into practice when making music! Thank you! Keep it up 😎
Wow, thank you Christine 🙏🏼
So glad it's helpful!
This is exactly how I needed this explained
Well that's great then!
Golden content
Happy it was helpful 🙌
its the melody that will tie all changes together, no matter how simple or how complex
Often true. What if there is no melody?
Brilliant and so helpful. Thank you for putting this out.
My pleasure! Happy it was helpful
Nearly lost me at the start but glad I stuck around was a great tutorial I knew bits n pieces but you just brought it all together thank you oh and for anyone who wants to skip to the main start it’s 9 mins in
Great to hear Ryan! Glad it was helpful.
at ~36:03: “Beelzebub…Welcome…good to have you here…” I just died! :). Great video BTW
Ha! Nice
You explained ideas so well! Thank you so much.
My pleasure 🌞
Thanks for not being toxic and making sense Subscribed
lol
My pleasure!
Can't wait for the new chord course !!!!
Coming so soon! Putting finishing touches on...
Max, you have helped me out soo much from this video! Thanks a ton I appreciate you! 🙏 ❤ subbed!
Great! Very happy it was helpful for you.
Brilliant subject for video! Very little of it on the yt
Super great video bro, I got my pen and paper , taking mad notes. I've lucked up many times and made great bridges and I've studied them but I've been trying to TRULY understand the science of it. Love the fact that u gave more examples than just the relative keys. And got deeper into connecting by modes
Great! Glad it was helpful.
wow super helpful, thx you
My pleasure 🤙🏼
Thanks Max, very good, as always!. Need time to put all this into practice haha:)
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Glad you enjoyed it!
i missed the stream again big sad but i will definitely watch it all :)
We missed you ✨
Hope it's helpful!
Hey man, you are an amazing teacher, and I really don’t say that a lot
Thank you 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Hi Max. I'm a guitar player trying to learn chord progressions, theory, etc and I'm so happy I found this video. Great work and thank you for doing this. Love how what you played at 1:30:54 sounded like retrovertigo by Mr. Bungle. Great song! Thanks again!
Great vibe! Glad you enjoyed the video
For me the music theory is something that is often simple to understand but very hard to memorize, so have to write the info down as text and repeat several times then. Extremly useful video, already written into text about 30 minutes from the beginning :) Wish there were 1000 times more than 1000 views, but at the same time great that not so many people put their hands on such precios info )))
That's great to hear 🌞
Very happy you find the info useful!
Great Great Video
Glad you like it!
Great information here thank you very much. Subscribed.
I’m having trouble with the difference between a Verse melody compared to a Chorus melody. Was hoping you could help.. All of my Verses are sounding like catchy hooks/ choruses.
It’s really frustrating.
This is very dependent on the style of music and artist in question, not to mention the listener. I can't really define a good verse vs chorus melody objectively. Instead, I'd suggest analyzing some of your favourite songs that you think DO have good distinction between verse and chorus melodies. Perhaps there is something in the rhythm or melodic intervals that you feel defines one or ther other. I'd be curious to hear...
I’m writing a song and trying to figure out the following:
1. How to transition from the last chord of Verse 1 to the first chord of Chorus.
2. How to transition from the last chord of Chorus to first chord of Verse 2.
3. How to transition from last chord of Verse2 to first chord of Bridge.
4. How to transition from last chord of Bridge to first chord of Outro.
Were you able to apply some of the techniques in this video? They should help with that!
@@maxkonyi I found out that I needed to use a cadence.
@@maxkonyi Your video was very helpful! I'm going to rewatch it. :)
So i bought a beat and the stems and i have been writing to it and i cant seem to figure out where the chorus is or if the beat doesnt have any chorus. I honestly was thinking of making a chorus for the beat with the beat stems i have but idk how to do that or if that makes any sense.
Many beats won't have a dedicated chorus per se. You can simply make one through the use of your voice or chop and rearrange the stems as you like. There's no need to follow the normal song structure! So feel free to abandon chorus's altogether 😜
Dear Sir Max, Greetings !
I am thinking of taking your music theory course on EUDEMY.
I am a bassist and listen to MESHUGGAH and want to know if i could write dissonant arrangements like them or close to them after your course. Ron Jarzombek etc......thats the direction i wanna take....
Also do we need to know how to read music? Cuz i cant.....and i suck at bass but my will power will get me through.
Thank you for everything
Hello!
My course will not help too much in writing this kind of music honestly. I also love metal and have written a lot of it but am often not using much theory when doing it. The best way to practice is by learning to play a bunch of your favourite songs on bass or guitar, analyzing them, and then trying to create similar things yourself.
Over time, this will lead to an intuitive sense of how the music flows, what works, and what doesn't. Learning music theory will certainly give you new ideas though and I generally do recommend it!
Why your some video have subtitle and other ones doesnt have Max? İt is possible to adding automathic subtitle?
Hmm...I don't know. Never thought about it. I've tried to enable it now. Let's see if they appear soon...
Isn't the 5 chord of the Emin scale a Bmin? At around 27:25 min you change the Amin from the progression of Gmaj to B7 saying that you are borrowing the fifth chord of Emin so you can start a progression in Emin. Did I get it right or am I missing something? Really interesting lesson by the way!
You're definitely right. When speaking diatonically, the five-chord is Bmin. However, it's very common for the five-chord to be major/dominant in a minor key because it has a stronger pull to the tonic. It's so common that I simply assume it most of the time!
@@maxkonyi oh ok, this is definitely something to keep in mind. Thanks!
Scuse me for my bad bad english ... im italian ... good good video .... in youtube italia dont have tutorial video for CHORD verse prechorus chorus bridge .... i look your video .... very very interesting ... i have 1 question .... long or not )) : In general in parts of arrangiament (soulful house)what octave i use ? ex: in chorus i use c1 c2 c3 c4 ? and verse .... c1 c2 c3 ?? I dont have study music )))
Grazie anche se nn rispondi
Are you asking which octaves you should play your chords in for different parts of a song? House genre?
@@maxkonyi yeah thx
i play piano chord with acapella ...
@@fuuyaone1645 There are no specific octaves to use really. It's more about the chord types and progressions that you choose. That being said, chords usually live between C2 and C4 with bass notes below that.
just starting out trying to write songs... I feel like I can pretty easily write progressions that sound like they could be a 'chorus', or a 'verse', but I havent been able to use the one to give me ideas ofr the other, even when I have a melody over a verse chord progression, I cant understand how to use that to come up with a chorus....
Did you gain any insight from the video? Or you still are unsure?
@@maxkonyi I have not tried yet, but I think I got some ideas... it will have to wait until I am in the mood again, if that ever happens...
@@xisotopex The time will come ✨
What do the dismisses chords mean
You mean diminished?
@@maxkonyi oh sorry yeah diminished
@@b6ibei210 Diminished chords are minor chords with a b5 (flat five).
1-b3-b5
I have started to understand, that you can describe how these things work, and upon explanation it sometimes is obvious, but at the end of it all, these things come about because a person has a knack and a good ear, and all the intellectualization and explanation wont help anyone to achieve it.
Though I 100% agree that, in the end, a person's musical vision (knack and ear) is the indisputable most important element, I also feel conceptual frameworks can be very helpful. Especially in the beginner and intermediate stages of learning. Eventually, we disregard everything but we know what we're disregarding
"We unify them by Key" lol oh man if only you knew that music is apart of the mysteries of mythology. It's why there's 12 Greco-Roman Pantheons, why Jesus had 12 disciples, it's why there's 12 numbers on a clock, it's why there's 12 months in a year. Most can't see the truth that the zodiac diagram came from the circle of 5ths and the circle of 5ths reveals a ordered universe because the Perfect 5th is the dominant note of the scale and is the golden ratio or proportion Phi. We call it a Power Chord because you're hearing the mathematical constant Phi. Key is how you pronounce the Greek Chi which is the letter X. Do you know why we call the greek alphabet the Alpha and Omega for the Alphabet and Numbers? Even English is encompassed by the A and zerO. The letter X is also the number 10 and is why we say Xmas.
You're actually speaking my language. I've studied this (and related esoteric, mathematical, spiritual, etc.) information for the last 20 years! However, you'll need to tell me why you think a 5th is related to Phi because I don't see it.
Very interesting topic but too long a video to watch... maybe it makes sense to make a max 10 minutes long condensed video about it?
Probably! This was done live to take questions and comments. Maybe I'll do a shortened one in the future...
You can't condense it into 10 mins, if you are serious about music you will put in the time.
I agree with mac, it's difficult to put this much information in a short video.
Nooooo this is perfect don’t shorten it 😢❤
Absolutely not too long