Advanced Music Theory: Part 2

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Hey! I am Mark Black and welcome to expertvillage.com and we are going to be talking about advanced theory in song writing. Then we talked about chords and what we are trying to say primarily the big overall picture is that the chords you are playing are the language that the brain is not getting; I guess you could say the heart is getting. The ear hears a song and you do not have the slightest idea but if I go, you automatically pick up a meaning to that. You automatically say, you know I assume he is fixing to rock out, I assume he is fixing to tell me something tough and cool because the music sounds that way. So the bottom line on all that spill about the chords and the harmony is that the language of your chords needs to agree with the impact of every song. Then we talked about we can add notes to the chords, we can make a major 7, major 2, we can do that with any of the types of chords but then we can also put the same chord in a different position that is it can be a normative chord, one of the regular parts of the scale of the key we are in or it can be two different kinds of non-normative chord, which in turn sounds unusual and again depending on the language what we are trying to say about the song, it would be strange or very normal depending on what we want to say. But just trying to talk about tools in your tool belt to be able to make the song fit, the meaning that you have, unusual, normal, comfortable, nerve racking, whatever but using those chord tools to make that happen. Okay, so thanks for coming to expertvillage.com, we talked about advanced theory regarding song writing and I am Mark Black for Promethean Studios and thanks for being here.

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