Chord Usage in Advanced Music Theory & Songwriting: Part 2

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Hey! I’m Mark Black and welcome to expertvillage.com and we are going to be talking about advanced theory in song writing. Now in a song, all the chords are basically moving along discontinual. Parts of the song that are happy, parts of different song may be sad and another part of the song will have where we are moving. For example, one of the reasons that blues sounds like it does is because pretty much all of the chords are 7 chords and every chord and every time you hit to be a 7 chord. Every chord feels like it has motion and it has to move so that is a characteristic of that. So if we look at these chords they are there and there is no tension to move from it. We hear them and we appreciate them, we like them, they are happy and they are sad but there are no particular reason to move. These chords are motion chords that do want to move, so talking about the different kinds of major chords that would affect things or different variations. Just going to play a few of them and make some of those sounds just to let you hear some of them; 2 chords, 6 chords; the same thing here for these minor chords. We can have the minor, minor 7 chords, minor 9, minor 2 and we can go on and on. We can have a minor with a sharp 7, 7 chords 9, 11, 13 and then can start altering these tones. I am going to come back to this so we can have flat 9 and especially in jazz, a numeral variation of a flat 9, flat 5, flat 9, sharp 5; typically just called an altered chord but the point is that a lot of different things we can do to chords to add moving across for happy, we’re sad. We want to get off of this chord to another chord and then as we add what we call tensions, change notes, and make it more and more tense would be like man, you need to get off this chord now.

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