How To Write INCREDIBLE Chords Without Using ANY Theory

Are you not an expert on theory, but you still want to write sophisticated-sounding chord progressions? Well, you actually don't need to know theory to do this! Keep watching to find out what you need to do.
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[@Live-pf1iw]

Just awesome 🎉

[@ghfdt368]

Great lesson and advice. What's interesting is a lot of rock music including more complex styles and theory must do this fishing a lot. For example the famous chord in the beginning of the Pink Floyd song shine on you crazy Diamond. I highly doubt David Gilmour sat down and thought "Hmm I know, I'll play a Bb6 #11 chord with no third that will do the trick".

[@christopherheckman7957]

IIRC, he discovered it accidentally while trying to play a different chord.

[@christopherheckman7957]

0:48 No. You can always brute-force it. Since there are only twelve pitches, there are only 2^12 = 4096 possible chords (well, maybe 4095, because this includes the "no-pitch chord"). If you're counting pitches over a 3-octave range, that's 2^36, which is still a finite number.

[@MusicTheoryForGuitar]

If you count only presence-absence of a pitch class, ok. You won't find many people who are willing to TRY more 4000 chords to find the right one, though.
And in reality the inversions and the voicings matter a lot... so the number is even higher ;-)

[@christopherheckman7957]

​@@MusicTheoryForGuitar "And in reality the inversions and the voicings matter a lot": That's why I gave a 3-octave range. The number of chords there would be 2^36.

[@MusicTheoryForGuitar]

@@christopherheckman7957 That's around 68 billions. Playing 23 per second it will take just about a lifetime to finish them all (slightly less than 95 year).... and the fastest players can play 16-17 single notes per second... So no, I don't think we can brute-force it. Not before we find a way to live longer, at least ;-))

[@demonicusa.k.a.theblindguy3929]

After being bored of the chords I knew for years I started on this journey around February of 2022. I basically increased my chord Vocabulary by unknown Numbers and I'm still finding them. This is great advice and I wish I'd come across it 20 plus years ago. ✌️

[@thisxgreatxdecay]

Thing is, I just cannot for the life of me memorize any chord shapes beyond the major and minor triads and the sevenths (maj7, min7, and dominant 7, at least). Even then, I only know about two chord shapes for each of those types. Any time I try to learn something else, like ninth chords or sharp #11s or minor sixths or whatever, it just doesn't stick.
I've found that I can only use them when writing songs. Like, "oh, lemme see what this progression sounds like if I use a 7sus4add13." Then I have to look up the fingerings. I can't just bust these out when jamming and it makes it take much longer to write a song because I can't just trial-and-error different chord ideas on the spot.

[@MusicTheoryForGuitar]

@thisxgreatxdecay I do have a course that solves exactly that + it shows you how to apply these chords: www.musictheoryforguitar.com/chords-and-harmony-guitar-lessons.html

[@ladc8960]

😮

[@woqudo3608]

so we still need theory💀