Songwriting: Melody, Harmony, and Rhythm | Non-Diatonic Chords | Berklee Online | Scarlet Keys 5/24
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- Опубліковано 11 бер 2021
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In this video series, Berklee Songwriting instructor Scarlet Keys shows you the songwriting tools that professional songwriters use and how you can apply them to your own songs. Scarlet will demonstrate how to write songs in major and minor keys, and show you how to use notes that feel stable and unstable, and when to use them to best fit your lyrics. She will also get into how to write melodies that bring out the best in your songs’ lyrics, and how to incorporate rhythms intentionally. After watching this video series you will be able to paint the scene in your musical story, which will allow you to gain a new awareness as a songwriter and use these time-tested tools to make your songs more emotionally impactful.
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Scarlet Keys has been a professor in the Songwriting Department of Berklee College of Music since 2003. She holds a Bachelor of Music from Berklee and is a former staff writer for Warner Chappell. Scarlet has had a gold record in Sweden, has topped the charts in Britain, and her songs have been recorded in the US by award-winning artists spanning genres from jazz, country, Americana, folk, and pop. Her songs have appeared on film and TV, as well as national commercials. Scarlet has collaborated with artists such as Chris Stapleton, Gretchen Wilson, Emily West, Golden Globe nominee Monty Powell, and more. Scarlet’s former students include Charlie Puth, Charlie Worsham, Liz Longley, Betty Who, and many up and coming artists. She writes, performs, and teaches both at Berklee and songwriting clinics across the US.
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I like how you focused on the emotion rather than the theory of these sounds
Great presentation!
Ya she's really good at teaching!
So I have been noodling with this concept for a couple of days and I stumbled upon a chord progression that makes use of a couple of non-diatonic chords and I find it pleasing to me and it is sparking song ideas that I will be able to play with and develop. While playing with different chord progressions in the key of C I stumbled upon this progression and I like it. The progression is C Gm/Bflat Am F G C Gm Am Aflat G. It has an interesting mix of happy and sad chords and gives a somewhat neutral vibe that can be developed into more of a somber song, but also can be developed into a more upbeat song.
I really was blessed by this discovery as I am a fairly inexperienced, aspiring songwriter. While I played drums since grade school and played in school band, for the most part I am self taught and thus I really appreciate your course on songwriting. I can play a little guitar, and keyboards, but i have been focusing on developing my skill on guitar and keys so that I can express with instruments the music that I hear in my head.
So thank you for these videos. I look forward to seeing the fruit of this journey. 🙂
These are fantastic! I really like how you sing melodies over the progressions to make them more musical. I think that detail helps generate ideas for the listener.
Your calm and instructive manner makes it really easy to follow. 👍
The discovery of these videos was a real game changer for me. Went from just choosing chords because they were "available" to actually hand-selecting chords based on where I wanted to take my song emotionally.
Wow!. Hello Scarlet and thank you for this vid! Your approach *majorly* reassures those of us who are not musical theorists. Also I would like to highlight your really valuable suggestion (in my opinion): "Memorize how these chords feel, not just how they sound." Having those feelings attached to corresponding chords will help us always remember our menu of options and find what we need more quickly when we are writing. So awesome. ❤️
These are great! Thanks Scarlet! The way you present these are so entertaining. I could watch these over and over.
You're a GREAT teacher! You capture the exact emotions that go with those chords. Perfect!
Ooh 5 minor was one I hadn't been using thank you
She is great and she can teach !
Dear Scarlet!!! I love your videos so much. You are such a brilliant teacher, the way you gives examples that are so relatable. Thanks a million for inspiring me to be a better songwriter ✨🙌🎉☀️
Thank you Scarlett, these videos are brilliant. Looking forward to working my way through all of them in time!
These are super awesome and helpful. Scarlet is a fantastic teacher
Really, really great, simple lesson. Keep them coming please!
Ms Keys packs some important ideas in here with solid examples for your ear. We’ll done prof! Hope folks get a taste for great teaching and continue to study on line or in the classroom.
3:28 😂😂 LOL. What a cool thing you did with the minor 4 and 5! I like that little progression at the end. Thank you!
This is awwwwwwsome!
Fantastic. Thank you.
This is soooo good 😀 world class teaching !!!
These are awesome lessons!
Fantastic, very deep but also ready to use, thanks for the video :)
Wow, love it! Thanks, will work with this.
This is crazy good series, thank you miss teacher
perfect , just one word perfect !
I really like these sort (but very powerful) videos about songwriting ✅ thanks!
LOVE IT
Instructive AND funny. Great combination!
Love it!
love it thx
it gives me more idea!
That's the Lydian mode with the augmented 4th.
amazing! thanks.
Обожаю эту серию уроков! Девушка такая весёлая и харизматичная, информация очень полезная! Смотрю с удовольствием!
Wow. Thanks
THX Love It
Fun insights...Thanks!
All of these wonderfully different changes from "do re me fo so la ti do". Amazing.
The 1 to 2maj chord change sounds like a Brian Wilson/Beach Boys California sunshine chord change.
Much respect...
Tnx alott❤❤
Really nice research on the subject of modal borrowing
Its really great 👍
Thank you!
You’ve opened Pandora’s box 📦 for me right here. Thank s
Modes are cool like that
Ooohhhh, ...it's like you gave me musical permission - to steal🤫!
But seriously, very interesting🎵🎶 ideas 💡
Thanks❕
This is a nice straightforward video but Ive been confused with a song breakdown im doing. Its pretty general but where do we get the major ll, major lll and major Vl from (since they “should” be minor). Im glad you said for now just flip the quality of the chord i.e major to minor or minor to major which is what most of the breakdowns im doing do but still I am curious with the theory aspect.
if anyone has time to answer this, can you explain why she's using the chord off in the bass clef with your left hand and using an inversion on the right hand?
does the right hand not typically play normal chords?
Completely heartbreaking haha and it only got worse the longer I watched! Imma steal this stuff !!! :D
And this is only the beginning ...
can anyone tell from which scale A major chord is borrowed in key of C?
it's a submediant modulation. it changes the whole key to a different key center, not derived of Cmaj.
Great video, let's get off diatonic...
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I want to know why radiohead’s creep and ecstasy by suicide idol sound like depression
i like you.
Is this channel of Berklee college of music?
Thanks for your question! This is the Berklee Online UA-cam channel. Founded in 2002, Berklee Online is the premier innovator and largest provider of worldwide music education, offering more than 75,000 students from 144 countries the renowned curriculum of Berklee College of Music, at a fraction of the cost.
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wonderful video with great tips. Just a suggestion, maybe you should use another digital piano.. it was very subtle but if you pay attention you can hear the piano's key noise every time she hit & release the piano keys..
C - Gm ... is the most depressive of all chord changes.