Great vid. Probably repeating myself but i wrote songs on guitar for years using books like rikky rooksby and was lazy and never really learned scales. Since I started playing piano it all makes sense cos melody vs chords is where the magic happens - i could never gety head round that on guitar cos you can't really play both at once like you can on piano
Another cool progression if you’re interested is “True Love Waits” by Radiohead, it gives a very poignant feel, but doesn’t really use a conventional chord progression.
Great video as usual! I think a good video idea would be how to make other parts to a song. For instance, I’ve got a nice chorus and bridge for a song I’m writing, but struggling to come up with a verse and pre-chorus etc.
@@sugar172 good idea. I’ve done videos on each part of a song before which goes through what each part is and what they’re functions are, with some tips of how to write them but it might be a good idea to do a video on all of them together, like how to write a verse to a chorus you already have etc. thanks mate, I’ll add it to the list 👍🏼🎸
Actually I have off-topic question. I try my best to formulate it. It's a bit silly. What's your take as a teacher, should students actively write down etudes, even tiny 1-2 bars, on a regular basis? Using the stuff they are learning. I had a lesson today and I learned this one bar economy picking excercise, understood that its A Minor 7h arpeggio on two strings. Later, I started messing around with it, and wrote three bars of...stuff, staying in key. Modifying it as I tried to play it faster, to be smoother. But what will happen if I do this daily? Write short motifs, etudes? What does the professors in music academies say about, what will happen?
@@oldmanshreds hi mate. Interesting, I used to do this kind of thing a lot. It’s really good to learn etudes because they are exercises/pieces of music for learning/practicing specific techniques. But like me, it’s sounds like you are using them as a springboard to come up with your own things. I personally think it’s a great exercise in creativity to adapt and make your own. I can imagine professors at classical music establishments would insist on learning the etudes exactly with no deviation but I personally have a fondness for the creative elements of making stuff that you find cool. I suppose it depends on what your teacher intends, they might have a plan on where they want to take this specific thing. Thanks for watching pal 👍🏼🎸
When strumming for fun, i've often gone from f minor to e minor but then that feels like i need to move to A minor and then come back to g major to resolve or go to D major and then G major to resolve. In effect i suppose I'm creating a bridge, but then to me those seem predictable, when I want to try for something different.
Just tried this. That Fm to Em sounds like pure Halloween music to me haha. Brilliant change but a bit strange. The Em to Am is a nice resolution then taking it to G feels good if in the key of G but then that change from there back to the starting chord of Fm feels strange to me. Do you start it on Fm? 👍🏼🎸
@@DaveyH I think on that occasion I went from C to Amin to F and then Fmin, and then down to Emin. One of my favourite chord changes is Fmaj7 to eminadd9? ( Might be wrong but e minor shape but playing third fret on the B string) - the opening chords I believe on tears for fears song advice for the young at heart.
@@garbarek1078is that an emin7 chord that Noel uses a lot? I do quite like the sound of a iii9 chord though - need to try and work that into a song cheers
Those progressions are really cool, nice video 👍
@@kolokolo6984 thanks pal. Really like that people take the time to share them with me 👍🏼🎸
Great vid. Probably repeating myself but i wrote songs on guitar for years using books like rikky rooksby and was lazy and never really learned scales. Since I started playing piano it all makes sense cos melody vs chords is where the magic happens - i could never gety head round that on guitar cos you can't really play both at once like you can on piano
Another cool progression if you’re interested is “True Love Waits” by Radiohead, it gives a very poignant feel, but doesn’t really use a conventional chord progression.
@@sugar172 awesome. I’m starting to make a series where I steal ideas from chord progressions of other songs so that could be a good one to do. Ta pal
Great video as usual! I think a good video idea would be how to make other parts to a song. For instance, I’ve got a nice chorus and bridge for a song I’m writing, but struggling to come up with a verse and pre-chorus etc.
@@sugar172 good idea. I’ve done videos on each part of a song before which goes through what each part is and what they’re functions are, with some tips of how to write them but it might be a good idea to do a video on all of them together, like how to write a verse to a chorus you already have etc. thanks mate, I’ll add it to the list 👍🏼🎸
Ah, the endless possibilities
@@oldmanshreds so true 🎸👍🏼
Actually I have off-topic question. I try my best to formulate it. It's a bit silly. What's your take as a teacher, should students actively write down etudes, even tiny 1-2 bars, on a regular basis? Using the stuff they are learning.
I had a lesson today and I learned this one bar economy picking excercise, understood that its A Minor 7h arpeggio on two strings. Later, I started messing around with it, and wrote three bars of...stuff, staying in key. Modifying it as I tried to play it faster, to be smoother. But what will happen if I do this daily? Write short motifs, etudes? What does the professors in music academies say about, what will happen?
@@oldmanshreds hi mate. Interesting, I used to do this kind of thing a lot. It’s really good to learn etudes because they are exercises/pieces of music for learning/practicing specific techniques. But like me, it’s sounds like you are using them as a springboard to come up with your own things. I personally think it’s a great exercise in creativity to adapt and make your own.
I can imagine professors at classical music establishments would insist on learning the etudes exactly with no deviation but I personally have a fondness for the creative elements of making stuff that you find cool. I suppose it depends on what your teacher intends, they might have a plan on where they want to take this specific thing.
Thanks for watching pal 👍🏼🎸
When strumming for fun, i've often gone from f minor to e minor but then that feels like i need to move to A minor and then come back to g major to resolve or go to D major and then G major to resolve. In effect i suppose I'm creating a bridge, but then to me those seem predictable, when I want to try for something different.
Just tried this. That Fm to Em sounds like pure Halloween music to me haha. Brilliant change but a bit strange. The Em to Am is a nice resolution then taking it to G feels good if in the key of G but then that change from there back to the starting chord of Fm feels strange to me. Do you start it on Fm? 👍🏼🎸
@@DaveyH I think on that occasion I went from C to Amin to F and then Fmin, and then down to Emin. One of my favourite chord changes is Fmaj7 to eminadd9? ( Might be wrong but e minor shape but playing third fret on the B string) - the opening chords I believe on tears for fears song advice for the young at heart.
Oh I get ya. Beautiful mate. And I know what you mean I vividly remember when I discovered the Emadd9 chord. 👍🏼🎸
@@garbarek1078is that an emin7 chord that Noel uses a lot? I do quite like the sound of a iii9 chord though - need to try and work that into a song cheers