Quick Songwriting Tips: Use New Chords to Harmonize Your Melodies | Tip 5/8 | Berklee Online
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In this video, Berklee Online instructor Shane Adams shows you a songwriting trick he uses to get outside of his comfort zone: To change up your melodies when writing a song, use a note from the melody as the basis for the chord you want to find. Start with your original progression, and then take a single note from the melody and plug it into different chords where the note appears. You can also use the melody note as the second note in the next chord in the progression. You’ll be surprised by how different it can make your song sound with these new chord progressions. Experimenting with this process will energize your harmony and/or the chord progression in your song.
About Shane Adams:
Shane Adams is a twice GRAMMY nominated music educator, and award-winning producer, and songwriter. Shane is president of Artist Accelerator and is a founding instructor for Berklee Online, where he has taught lyric writing and songwriting since 2003. He teaches several courses at Berklee Online, including Music Production, Songwriting, Orchestration, Music Theory, Harmony, Ear Training, and Arranging.
Shane is also a featured songwriter and instructor for the Taylor Swift Education Center at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum where he received their TOP TEN HITMAKER award for 2014.
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EXACTLY what I needed! I also felt like as if I was stuck with my chords
Thx for the ‘light bulb’ moment! Awesome…just opened my chord choices exponentially… ‘on the fly’ even!
Fantastic series thank you
Amazing video. Thank you. Very helpful tip. 👍😊🙏
Thanks Shane! Such cool tips from you.
You're welcome Mark! Good luck with your music! :)
~Shane
love this technqiue, very easy to apply but also gets the job done to find something new
My favourite tip so far. Thank you!
Thank you... great information
We need more of such videos
Very good!
Great advice! I use a similar technique, anything to keep it from being boring.
Amen SR! Thanks for the comment!
~Shane
Thank you for the tips 😘
You're very welcome OtG! :) Kisses back!
~Shane
Thank you!
Right on Michael! Thank YOU!
~Shane
Amazing! This is gold.
Damn, this is good!!
This is great! I do the same!
Right on Adam! Thank you!
Best wishes for your music!
~Shane
In Pakistani classical music we say this... Bydaar sur... Nice
This is always within the same scale of the melody? Thanks for the tutorial.
This is great
Thanks a million LOL Cool J (awesome name BTW).
Good luck with your music!
~Shane
Such an awesome technique. Also, this guy reminds me so much of Jack Black on School of Rock! 😂
Does the new chord need to be in the correct key that is being played?
sara j I would say no, for example he played D major in a song in the key of E
Thank you - you are a genius to me
I'm called a genius a lot, but not for the right reasons. It's more like..."that was a dumb move genius!" lol
Seriously though, thank you for the comment! Best of luck with your music!
~Shane
This time I like this guy,😇
I don't get it... maybe it's because I'm not a native english speaker but I just can't make sense of what he is saying...
Does he just mean to take one note from a melody you already have and search through all the chords that can be made up with this note as the 1st-6th degree of the chord? That seems like a lot of chords to me. In that case I could just try pretty much every chord and see if it fits interestingly..
Yea sure just try pretty much every chord. Definitely wouldn't be easier to use 6 chords that harmonize with the melody line. Go ahead and play every single fucking chord possible you stupid fuck.
I still don't understand can anyone simplify this a little more