Songwriting 101: How to Build Chord Progressions From Scratch

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  • čas přidán 27. 07. 2024

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  • @WakeAndBakeBeats
    @WakeAndBakeBeats Před 8 lety +483

    as someone who is self-taught with keys, this really helped tie everything together

    • @fantaztikbeatz
      @fantaztikbeatz Před 2 lety

      Yup

    • @mir.9805
      @mir.9805 Před rokem +3

      Same with guitar, I can connect the pieces now.

    • @Chucknourse
      @Chucknourse Před rokem +1

      for sure mann

    • @OrionCamps
      @OrionCamps Před 2 měsíci

      Now drill the circle of fifths and fourths into ur head. backwards forwards and sideways. You'll soon figure out there's no such thing as a wrong note as long as you voice it correctly with the right timing.

    • @mewhe
      @mewhe Před měsícem

      ​@@mir.9805so you know the pieces fit?

  • @auctal4625
    @auctal4625 Před 5 lety +263

    Damn in this single video,
    One with zero music theory can create some awesome progression...
    So well planned and well explained..

  • @diddypopdiddy
    @diddypopdiddy Před 3 lety +28

    took me about 10 years of messing around on my keyboard in my room to figure out the information in this video... awesome stuff. Wish I saw this sooner

  • @AngelikaSings
    @AngelikaSings Před 3 lety +7

    I've gone through a couple videos explaining this, but this one was the most useful by far! Explaining foreign concepts to me in a super approachable way. We love to see it !

  • @Str8representing
    @Str8representing Před 6 lety +630

    Save your time and go to 4:48 if you came for the title

  • @albertt_ross
    @albertt_ross Před 5 lety +508

    WWHWWWH - where was harry when we wanted him?

  • @edb_4472
    @edb_4472 Před 6 lety +4

    After watching a ton of music theory videos this one has been by far the more clear and simple. Thanks!

  • @akarihoentertainmentgroup4422

    What an amazing tutor!! You the best bro. You save many years I was going to practice this. Be blessed

  • @saturdaynight7649
    @saturdaynight7649 Před 8 lety +91

    Your content is super informative and really helps make the piano less intimidating, wish you were around when I began playing haha. Keep up the great work!

  • @jacobdrumm9206
    @jacobdrumm9206 Před 7 lety +3

    This is the best lession ive found yet. keep doing what your doing. it just helped me so much.

  • @SayMore11
    @SayMore11 Před 4 lety +2

    I'm lucky I kept looking and trying to find the right teacher. Everything you say and do makes complete sense to me thank you so much!

  • @jlyons53667
    @jlyons53667 Před 7 lety +1

    I've watched so many lessons explaining this exact same thing (granted, guitar videos).. I just never knew it until now. This is the only way it's actually made any sense. Thank you!

  • @lucasjohnson2920
    @lucasjohnson2920 Před 7 lety +6

    Oh my gosh! This made so much sense! I've never had a video help tie up so many loose ends up in my brain. Thank you so much for your help! My journey to songwriting begins :)

    • @sheriffaboubakar9720
      @sheriffaboubakar9720 Před 6 lety

      Lucas Johnson songwriting isnt hard you didnt need to learn this to songwrite lol

  • @gregorymountain9706
    @gregorymountain9706 Před 6 lety +5

    This is the best video I have seen to explain chords and basics of keys/scale. AND you did it in 6minutes, bravo man! Thanks so much!

  • @Jerseygal-c5z
    @Jerseygal-c5z Před 6 lety +15

    Well explained, my piano teacher didn't tell me anything about this thanks God bless you

  • @joshuajeromealrobertkpm-gu4318

    This is the best video I found for Songwriting...straight to the point...and so useful !! Thank you so much

  • @queenlolo1384
    @queenlolo1384 Před 7 lety +14

    This is one of the best videos on chord progressions. You literally made this super easy to understand and get. You gave text, examples, formulas, etc. Thank you!

  • @bubbleserispe7626
    @bubbleserispe7626 Před 6 lety +6

    WOW!!! Amazing Tutorial and I love the way you speak (your tone)...Thanks for this great & informative lesson....Much appreciated.....

  • @MoviesandAnime655
    @MoviesandAnime655 Před 4 lety +4

    This is the channel I found for my life ✔️❤️ I love the you teach and explain.

  • @jimzzz2402
    @jimzzz2402 Před 6 lety +5

    Really helpful, I really struggle with chord progression, I have a greater understanding, thank you

  • @Libertyparkmusic_LPM
    @Libertyparkmusic_LPM Před 7 lety +3

    This is a really excellent lesson! Fantastic work!

  • @medussy7033
    @medussy7033 Před 4 lety +1

    I just learnt way more than I ever learnt in 2 years of music. Thank you a lot!!

  • @pingpong7286
    @pingpong7286 Před 3 lety

    Hi!! You made this easy for me to understand I have been struggling with this for months. Thank you 💕

  • @MrBlunt419_
    @MrBlunt419_ Před 5 lety +1

    Great video! Very simple and concise explanations

  • @angeltierra7774
    @angeltierra7774 Před 5 lety +1

    yo this is the best video explaining this. Thanks so much!

  • @southpark4151
    @southpark4151 Před 3 lety +1

    Absolutely awesome. This video MORE than helped. Thanks very much for time and excellent teaching skills.

  • @jaereal3467
    @jaereal3467 Před 6 lety +2

    great video,right to the point!

  • @jvshaw9708
    @jvshaw9708 Před 4 lety +2

    Thank You. This helped me a lot!!

  • @pandorasbox2309
    @pandorasbox2309 Před 7 lety +12

    Your lessons are really great.Please continue.Hope you can put out at least one lesson per week.

    • @lalamalelang5670
      @lalamalelang5670 Před 2 lety

      Yeah. Why not. Hope he continous teaching this new lessons every week thehres always new lesson. Excited to his new lessons.

  • @violetatio3224
    @violetatio3224 Před 2 lety

    So much made clear in one lesson;excellent teaching! Thank you.

  • @iamkron2631
    @iamkron2631 Před 4 lety +4

    Super helpfull learned so much about chords that i never knew before

  • @geralynpalacol9295
    @geralynpalacol9295 Před 4 lety +1

    EXCELLENT TUTORIAL!!! Great Job😀. Appreciate All I learned and was reminded of sooooo much😍. THANK YOU🙏🙏🙏

  • @historyinc.4783
    @historyinc.4783 Před 6 lety +1

    This is so good and simple!

  • @therealbacaboo
    @therealbacaboo Před 4 lety +3

    Yoooo!!! I love this!!! You’re a great teacher!!! ✊ Subscribed.

  • @solofox6925
    @solofox6925 Před 4 lety +1

    You are a good teacher you keep things simple and keep things moving along straight to the point.

    • @lalamalelang5670
      @lalamalelang5670 Před 2 lety

      Yew hope he continues like the way he teach. He make it simple and easy to understand well.

  • @luzvimindasuficiencia4804

    Thanks for sharing, excellent tutorial.

  • @martoafro
    @martoafro Před 11 měsíci

    THANK YOU. All other channels explain it as if I was already playing the piano for 10 years. This one is perfect :)

  • @stargacha2453
    @stargacha2453 Před 3 lety +4

    i have never seen it explained this well omg-

  • @seekingforever3327
    @seekingforever3327 Před 5 lety

    I love you!!!!!!! you are a fantastic teacher no bull crap just simple facts and its all understandable. thank you thank you!!!!!!

  • @ramen2486
    @ramen2486 Před 5 lety

    FINALLY. No one ever explained what the Roman numerals meant and how it was major and minor down the scale with chords. Thank you very much

  • @euphxrz
    @euphxrz Před rokem

    This was well explained!! Thank you so much!

  • @lalamalelang5670
    @lalamalelang5670 Před 2 lety

    Very informstive. Nice teaching and very clear. Keep it up. Thanks for sharing. Watching ur videos always.

  • @user-vm6bf8zi2q
    @user-vm6bf8zi2q Před 2 lety

    this one is so simple and useful. thanks!!

  • @SayMore11
    @SayMore11 Před 4 lety +3

    I have been teaching my self on my stage-1 /Korg 88 key piano and until I saw your video it had been really tough. It takes the right person or coach to simplify a teaching lesson. "(Not just anybody can teach everybody)". "(Not everybody can learn from just any teacher)". It takes a click or complete understanding of how a lesson is taught to certain individuals.

  • @globaltrekkerexplorer
    @globaltrekkerexplorer Před 2 lety

    Wow! It doesn't get any clearer than this lesson! Thanks a million...

  • @htgfrds
    @htgfrds Před 8 lety

    Great video! This really helped me out.

  • @tapsinomad
    @tapsinomad Před rokem

    This is so great! Subscribed!

  • @bensterjoe4719
    @bensterjoe4719 Před 4 lety

    This video is sooooo useful!! 👏🏽👍🏾

  • @rachael_kendi_Vlogs
    @rachael_kendi_Vlogs Před 4 lety +2

    Wow this is such great content. Thank you. God Bless .

  • @charlieharpman2107
    @charlieharpman2107 Před 7 lety

    Great video!!! Nice explanation.

  • @yohananabrahams2336
    @yohananabrahams2336 Před 6 lety +5

    Wow, I learnt something! 😮

  • @pihut3849
    @pihut3849 Před 2 lety

    omgg pls the wwhwwwh is so useful should've came here before getting embarrassed in my piano classsss 😩 brooo literally I've been cramming this for like a year and now here we are thankyouuuu

  • @Advait
    @Advait Před 7 lety

    Great video 💯

  • @TaiwoBamisile
    @TaiwoBamisile Před 6 lety +3

    Thank you!!!

  • @fredfloyd693
    @fredfloyd693 Před 7 lety

    Really helpful my dude thanks!

  • @AntonioBrandao
    @AntonioBrandao Před 6 lety +2

    Incredibly succinct explanation

  • @mversantvoort
    @mversantvoort Před 7 lety +1

    Great video! Considering taking your course... don't stop making videos though!

  • @TheDude-vx6wn
    @TheDude-vx6wn Před 5 lety

    Superb. Thanks!

  • @klaymanklogg8459
    @klaymanklogg8459 Před 4 lety

    Awesome simple explanation.

  • @Stevieboy042562
    @Stevieboy042562 Před 4 lety

    Very clear. Thank you.

  • @chase.4864
    @chase.4864 Před 2 lety

    Just watching 2 minutes of this video was so informative. Thank you

  • @theresistance1151
    @theresistance1151 Před 4 lety

    Cool video really enjoyed !!!

  • @katiemartin9268
    @katiemartin9268 Před 5 lety

    This is really helpful🙌

  • @mrteiijr
    @mrteiijr Před 2 lety

    You are an amazing dude for making this video.

  • @Dynamite-pk3xf
    @Dynamite-pk3xf Před 2 lety

    Oh I finally got how to make a proper chord progression! Thank you!

  • @thevfxwizard7758
    @thevfxwizard7758 Před 3 lety +62

    6:00 pretty sure he just accidentally created the chord progression of The Office theme.

  • @tractorbooty15
    @tractorbooty15 Před 7 lety +1

    You are genius!! You made this look so easy. A dumbo like me could follow this!! Terrific:-)

  • @theconfederationofcubers

    Thanks, great video!

  • @megugu2155
    @megugu2155 Před 4 lety

    ive been self studying wrong and this video proved it.
    now i gotta double check if im studying drawing wrong too...

  • @RahulKumar-wl4dj
    @RahulKumar-wl4dj Před 6 lety

    Excellent!

  • @The4thSon
    @The4thSon Před 5 lety

    very informative video thanks!!!!

  • @huonglarne
    @huonglarne Před 6 lety +1

    Thank you so so so so much

  • @InvokeReflection
    @InvokeReflection Před 8 lety +2

    I started learning the piano not long ago but have found it to be rather confusing. Your tutorial just blew my mind, the way you explained the chords just made everything click. Would love to see more, definitely going to look into your Udemy course!

    • @notname4339
      @notname4339 Před 8 lety +2

      See most people teach and stare at you or shove sheet music in your face, the fact that he explains everything clearly and all you see is the piano and the intervals helps a lot.

  • @37ishaan
    @37ishaan Před 5 lety

    hey very informative video it helped me out alot

  • @TheJosef944
    @TheJosef944 Před 3 lety

    Thank you! Really helped :D

  • @randellespence3071
    @randellespence3071 Před 4 lety

    That is so cool!

  • @Kwame1959
    @Kwame1959 Před 3 lety

    Soooooo helpful!!

  • @SovanoraHounKhin
    @SovanoraHounKhin Před 2 lety

    Great tutorial..
    thanks!

  • @saadachab8425
    @saadachab8425 Před 5 lety

    great lesson thank you

  • @kaileejordy3427
    @kaileejordy3427 Před 4 lety

    you are amazing thank you fr

  • @hesamedinheshmati3819
    @hesamedinheshmati3819 Před 3 lety

    awesome video thanks

  • @tommyRfrancis
    @tommyRfrancis Před 7 lety

    Great video, thank you :-)

  • @rhafrecordz
    @rhafrecordz Před 4 lety

    Very helpful!

  • @KaSyl_Town
    @KaSyl_Town Před 4 lety

    This was incredibly helpful for a noob like me.
    I bought hundreds of dollars worth of musical software, with no clue how to use it.
    This really just helped a maaaasive amount.

    • @KaSyl_Town
      @KaSyl_Town Před 4 lety

      @Samuel Powers I have very poor impulse control. I sing and such, and wanted to learn. It's hard to learn without something to learn with.

  • @evangelistodsouza5681
    @evangelistodsouza5681 Před 6 lety +2

    I like the way you explain and thanks for your patience and time to teach us. God Bless You.

  • @sackbub8243
    @sackbub8243 Před 2 lety +39

    Anyone else hear Daily dose ?

  • @ezramutumakimeria7673

    ❤ That's great Sir

  • @goldenlamb777
    @goldenlamb777 Před 2 lety

    Thank you 🙏

  • @palomacasanova4355
    @palomacasanova4355 Před 4 lety

    Thank you, I can understand..I don't speak so well English but you don't speak so fast...Thank you very much..I 'am going to see more of your videos before subscribe...I like your way to teach...thank you..so much

  • @digestablebits5860
    @digestablebits5860 Před 2 lety

    Newbies should start here (being one, myself). I have wasted so much time watching other videos, which, as useful as they may or may not be for others or even myself, all just generally said the same things and fell a bit short in getting this stuff to stick for me (which may be, and likely is, of my own shortcomings). I feel like I have finally defeated stage one! lol Thanks a lot!

  • @brianmi40
    @brianmi40 Před 7 lety +41

    Know you were trying to keep this succinct so that people can see how straightforward you can get from little knowledge all the way to creating chord progressions on a piano, I would have just added a quick mention of inversions, especially since your final example used an inversion of three of the chords that you illustrated with...
    Just think it wouldn't have complicated the topic too much to share such an important point that chord progressions most often depend so much on the inversions used to sound as good as they do...
    For anyone not familiar with this; note how he is not playing the chords as he taught them earlier in the video when he plays his final example (at 6:00) using the I, iii, vi, IV in C Major scale, in that the I chord, the iii chord and the IV chords, if you look at what his right hand is playing in each case, the notes don't match the notes of those same chords as illustrated earlier in the lesson. Studying them a few seconds may reveal it's the same notes, just in a different order. The bottom line is that, if you play the required notes that make up any chord, with those notes scattered anywhere over the keyboard, it is still that chord, no matter how you may scatter them.
    This is an extremely important concept to understanding the power of chord progressions (why certain ones sound so good to us), of creating your own chord progressions, or replicating the chords of a song you like. You will likely notice that, for example, playing all the correct chords for your favorite song, using their "root positions" -- as he built them first in this video, where a C chord has the C note as the lowest note -- most likely won't sound like they do in the song you like. You can easily demonstrate this power to yourself, by creating any simple 2 chord progression (like his I chord to the iii chord) and then playing it using different inversions of those chords. You will quickly realize how many different combinations there are, and, more importantly, how different so many of them sound. Behind these sounding different is how our ear interprets the lowest and highest pitches we hear when a chord is played.
    So an essential "secret" to creating chord progressions for songwriting, is to come up with not only a sequence of chords that you like, but specific inversions of each chord that not only sound best as you move from chord to chord (to you the songwriter, and to be successful, your audience!), but that also magnificently support whatever melody you come up with...
    As Hans Zimmer would say, it's all about Story.
    I'm sure this is all covered in your later videos and want to pass on I was impressed with how succinct you did make a progression from understanding scales to making basic chord progressions!

    • @cannabis1490
      @cannabis1490 Před 7 lety +1

      thanks sir...appreciate the explanation..

    • @brianmi40
      @brianmi40 Před 7 lety +2

      You're welcome! Also keep in mind that the two most important notes for how you arrange the notes in the chords you play, are the Top and the Bottom notes (this becomes bigger when you start playing two handed chords, where notes are more spread out and you start potentially having notes appear more than once, such as playing the C note twice in a large two handed chord of C). Often the top notes will be the melody at times, or enhance it, and the bottom note forms an important pattern moving from chord to chord. For example, it is very powerful to have a bottom note that moves chromatically (half steps ascending or decending) or diatonically (with scale tones ascending or decending). That is not to say that the bottom note cannot make jumps, but jumping all the time will be less powerful.

    • @tommyRfrancis
      @tommyRfrancis Před 7 lety

      B Miller That's great to know, thank you!

    • @abelochuko62
      @abelochuko62 Před 5 lety

      Hi pls I need your help

    • @emmam5438
      @emmam5438 Před 5 lety

      thank you for sharing!

  • @coke8077
    @coke8077 Před 3 lety +13

    I just use a scale and then fill in what ever notes sound good together as a chord

    • @charliegriswold1445
      @charliegriswold1445 Před 2 lety +2

      a drawback to that strategy is that you wont use notes outside the chromatic scale, which leaves you without augmented or diminished chords.

  • @eastersundaecavity5413
    @eastersundaecavity5413 Před 4 lety +6

    This helps a lot, even if I'm not writing songs. XD

  • @lettingitrip5854
    @lettingitrip5854 Před 7 lety

    what a sick vid!

  • @MayankSharma-vv8fz
    @MayankSharma-vv8fz Před 6 lety

    ty so much

  • @teddytadd7457
    @teddytadd7457 Před 4 lety +5

    nice! just not long enough to get more tips! need more pop songs to work with! do more uploader!

  • @sadmanles3165
    @sadmanles3165 Před 4 lety

    i like how you played the intro of naked at the end :)

  • @kaileejordy3427
    @kaileejordy3427 Před 4 lety +1

    honestly helped me understand it much better lol

  • @asimanandbarwa4980
    @asimanandbarwa4980 Před 4 lety

    Thq! Dudu! Love you for your video your soon to reach nic no of subs

  • @monkeyzeetube
    @monkeyzeetube Před 7 lety

    thanks a million..