Create An ORIGINAL CHORD PROGRESSION!

[@Fre3flyOfficial]

Sure, you have millions of possibilities...but only 1% of those will actually sound good!

[@efebezmez6386]

Did you listen to all of them ?

[@yeezymensah5996]

more than 1% lol

[@j.lindback]

A chord progression isn't consumed because someone used it like 40 years ago. A chord progression will live forever since one chord progression can be used to make a million different sounding songs. No one owns a chord progression, so this is really a non issue. And "original"? That's like saying "You can't use guitars because that's not original".

[@goatsurgeon]

Well, as you said the prerequisite was in Your book, I’ve definitely written over 100 songs... I’ve made a lot of cord progressions. All of them were better than any of my starting lyrics. It’s not hard to make custom chord progressions, especially when they’re merged with riffs... just have to write a lot and they’ll come out. Gets interesting when you want the blues scale, minor, and harmonic minor to all blend their notes together. Some scales don’t have the standard 8 intervals to an octave, some can have more

[@lpbrookes2175]

Shit, there was me worrying about running out of antibiotics, hope, peace, love and all the beauty that makes this world turn every single day. Chord progressions mate? they're infinite. Don't worry about it.

[@samlee2562]

a good technique for creating a new progression is to take one you already know and start it from a different place, it has an iteresting effect on the tonic chord as it is no longer played first...

[@Holistic-songwriting]

Yup, I talk about this technique here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/np3WlGSNitt7lbM

[@algonzosax]

I was just doing math homework when I came across this video

[@YourFavouriteColor]

Bad information. This is not useful when it comes to understanding functional harmony. Playing a C major in closed voicing, open voicing, high on a piano, low on a piano, etc, it isn't useful to call those "different chords." They are voicings of the same sonority. The key to understanding harmonic progression is to understand functional harmony on a mechanical level. These "shortcuts" do not help anyone starting up to understand music on a holistic level. The "original chord progression" concept is problematic as it is. We are conditioned to see "chord progressions" as discrete blocks. "chord, chord, chord chord." However, "harmonic progression," in terms of functional harmony has to do with tonal centers and the tritone resolution. Anyone who actually wants to start learning about harmonic progression, get a book of Bach Chorales, and either get a tutor or find an 18th century counterpoint book and start there. If that's too advanced, start with a basic chord theory book from a music store. the songwriting landscape is bad enough as it is without all of these vacuous shortcuts. Sure, you might be able to get some ideas and material in the short term, but this kind of teaching is "giving the writer a fish" rather than "teaching them how to fish." Anyone reading out there, take the long road. Get a formal understanding of baroque harmony. It will give you a level of musical literacy where you will never want for "what to do next" again.

[@Holistic-songwriting]

Hey YourFavouriteColor, imho you are right and you are wrong. Right because yes, this is the "correct" way of doing it (I have a Bachelor of Music and did study those Bach chorales you're talking about), wrong because my channel is about modern songwriting, which has its influences from electronic music. To put it bluntly, this is music some kids with laptops invented. They never studied Bach chorales. It's fine if you don't like this music (probably precisely because it doesn't follow your understanding of music), but modern music works quite differently.

[@YourFavouriteColor]

See, it's that kind of thinking that has caused an absolute landfill of poorly written music among young writers. I am not against modern music. When modern music is finely written(which it occasionally is), it's just as world class as any great composition. When professional songwriters are still allowed to do their jobs, or if a very talented young person learns the craft of melody through osmosis or study, I am pleased as punch. I think most young artists' contribution to music has been, as you pointed out, in audio technology. Music "sounds" better than it ever has, but is written more poorly than it ever has been, relative to its popularity. The point is, I disagree with your claim that the rudiments of musical composition are no longer useful to a modern writer. You can't have it both ways. Young writers are using the 12 tone tonal system, whose technology was developed and perfected in the late baroque period. We are still using the same meter, the same dominant-tonic relationships, the same approach to melodic craft as Bach was, we're just, by and large doing it poorly. So, I don't care if the writer is from today, from 50 years ago, or 100 years ago, if you're writing tonal music, achieve tonal literacy. For the most part I like your channel. You obviously know what you're doing. I'm just very sensitive to these shortcuts that deprive a young student of a robust understanding of tonal harmony. "It's my party" is one of the finest compositions of all time. Today, the Bird and the Bee are brilliant, Carly Rae Jepson's writer/s are super skilled songwriters. "Boom Clap" by Charlie XCX is every bit as fine a melody as a decent beatles song. The modern music world, when executed well, does NOT work differently as you claim. The only difference is an epidemic of kids who don't even know that melody is a THINg to begin with let alone able to execute fine melodies. I'm sure you share my pain. How many times a DAY do you hear "sol mi" descending minor third spammed randomly over a few chords? 95% of what's going on today is NOT songwriting by even a generous metric, and I encourage all educators to compel their audience to gain real expertise. It is just as invaluable now as it has ever been. For what it's worth, I suspect we're on the same side. My antennae is piqued when "chord progressions" are talked about, because they often miss the core principle concepts of tonal harmony, which is the language we are all speaking. "Chord progressions" as they are understood today is the equivalent of cave man grunts, whereas a bach chorale is an english sentence. I mean, sometimes caveman grunts are needed, and valid. But they should be a conscious choice of a literate musician and composer, not a limitation of someone on whom the entire history of the knowledgebase is lost.

[@Velvet0Starship2013]

Hey, YFC! I agree to an extent but the fact is, songwriting, today, is a little more about recording than it is about composition as you know it, per se... the precipitous rise of Rap/ Hop Hop showed people that a "hook" could be almost anything (if repeated enough and engineered properly)... adding that lesson to James Brown's successful experiments in suppressing melody, in favor of rhythm, classical melody/ harmony began seeming quite Old Fashioned, especially to The Golden Target Demographic of 12-year-old girls who were more than happy to have three-note jingles stuck in their heads as long as the beats were exciting and the singers were cute. Digital Technology is the nail in the coffin: SFX are King in most recording studios (especially the recording studios you can fit in a suit case or your jacket pocket). Oh, have I mentioned that a substantial chunk of the audience is actually, clinically, tone-deaf? They're responding primarily to sonic energy and compelling images. Personally, I'm a huge King Crimson (c. "Eyes Wide Open" concert) fan... I like a few formal experiments with my exquisite performances... but, when you write, "'Boom Clap' by Charlie XCX is every bit as fine a melody as a decent beatles song," remember, as you're evoking The Beatles material as a songwriting standard, that their musical knowledge was pretty rudimentary (George Martin was a godsend to the history of Pop ) and they did it mostly by ear... and Lennon was pretty exciting with his "cave man grunts"...!

[@YourFavouriteColor]

Yeah, I mean, as much as I admire King Crimson for their unbelievable musical ability, they have major blind spots. They're self indulgent and they overwrite(this is coming from a trained composer who really loves their work). And yeah, Lennon and McCartney didn't have formal training. You don't need formal training to learn how to write a melody. They learned through cultural osmosis. But therein lies the problem. today, our culture is SO bereft of melodies, that the young people who do learn through osmosis are learning terrible, awful habits. Back in the 60s, the Beatles were only one generation removed from the great swing masters. They were in the same generation as the Bebop legends. They had first line access to golden age broadway, to classical, etc. Melody was in the air they breathed. In that kind of atmosphere, if you take someone with talent and tenacity, they will eventually understand melody on a holistic level. I believe now more than ever, formal songwriting education should be re-infused into the youth of today because we don't have the luxury of being surrounded by amazing brilliant stuff. We're in a negative feedback loop now. Young singer songwriters learning to write from their peers is POISON nowadays, whereas in the 60s you could get away with it. Don't get me wrong, there was tons of garbage in rock and roll and skiffle and folk and blues back then, buckets and buckets of it. But as I said, flip on the radio, and you are guaranteed to hear professional, gorgeous melodies. That is no longer the case(except during christmas time in the states, which is my favorite time of year because we ACTUALLY get to hear melodies on the radio.) P.S. I don't turn my nose up to good hip hop. Just because a line isn't "sung" doesn't mean it can't be a brilliant hook and an elegant composition.

[@Velvet0Starship2013]

"But as I said, flip on the radio, and you are guaranteed to hear professional, gorgeous melodies." To be quite honest, I find most "popular" melodies to be oppressively predictable treacle; I don't agree with the notion of KC (aka Robert Fripp) "over-writing"... that judgment reminds me of a famous scene in a Milos Forman movie about an Austrian composer (wink)... de gustibus and all that. I've been a professional composer since c. 1985 when I was "signed up" as a BMI writer (I'm with another licensing behemoth now), but I only started to make a bit of real money in 2002. Between the two dates I've seen every imaginable extreme... and almost every "ill" in popular music, IMO, can be laid at the feet of the Majors. But that's another discussion! Thanks for the chat!

[@abdielmolina8912]

Gracias.

[@donaldwhitner4339]

Great Lesson and I love your 143 chord progressions download. There is no excuse for anyone serious about writing music to not have a copy!!

[@Holistic-songwriting]

Donald Whitner Thanks Donald! glad you like em :)

[@aspirativemusicproduction2135]

I found a formula on You Tube. One of the guitar teaches gave us the hint. Than light bulb went on in my head. It's very functional and doesn't violate western music theory much if you understand the idea. I don't know if it's time to tell the world. Maybe I shouldn't. Maybe I should just post some music with the formula and wait to see if anyone is going to notice something unusual.

[@OriginalKingRichTv]

Don’t be a dick just tell us already

[@swing9170]

I cant believe you dont have 1625 on this sheets :D

[@alexdakar1994]

Marketting: Hi, there are too many chord progressions, so buy my e book where you can find the best 143 chords.

[@Holistic-songwriting]

It's actually free :)

[@alexdakar1994]

Make a serie on Bob Marley please...I have been looking for your kind of explanation about months...

[@alexdakar1994]

By the way I got you hehe, I just wanted you pay atention on my com's. Keep on, your channel is gonna be a way to go for songwriting on youtube.

[@iAmDislikingEveryShort]

Your math is upside down.. The more notes you put in a chord. The less possibilities are there

[@tomkuntz9826]

Guy doesn’t understand chord voicings 😂 or that 2 notes together is technically not a chord and is an interval

[@coolguyrecords3553]

settle down, ok?

[@kelvinaydalla]

MATH?? bitch Im outta here

[@JapanWalkerJJ]

kleyo libores That's just supporting detail you don't have to memorize that formula. He's just implying that there are millions of different possibilities in chord progressions depending on how many notes.

[@nazariahsimbolon7401]

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