Quick Songwriting Tips: Use New Chords to Harmonize Your Melodies | Tip 5/8 | Berklee Online

[@unexpected8166]

EXACTLY what I needed! I also felt like as if I was stuck with my chords

[@barrycoulter6951]

Thx for the ‘light bulb’ moment! Awesome…just opened my chord choices exponentially… ‘on the fly’ even!

[@kiliankraus]

love this technqiue, very easy to apply but also gets the job done to find something new

[@dav1dc293]

Fantastic series thank you

[@Blue_3rd]

My favourite tip so far. Thank you!

[@5966ramesh]

Amazing video. Thank you. Very helpful tip. 👍😊🙏

[@billpeak7950]

Thank you... great information

[@brucenawa645]

We need more of such videos

[@salusinger007]

In Pakistani classical music we say this... Bydaar sur... Nice

[@SonicologyRecords]

Great advice! I use a similar technique, anything to keep it from being boring.

[@artistaccelerator]

Amen SR! Thanks for the comment! ~Shane

[@cozxmos]

Thanks Shane! Such cool tips from you.

[@artistaccelerator]

You're welcome Mark! Good luck with your music! :) ~Shane

[@gilgillis2445]

Very good!

[@ginotarabotto]

This is always within the same scale of the melody? Thanks for the tutorial.

[@NicholasPatrickMusic]

Such an awesome technique. Also, this guy reminds me so much of Jack Black on School of Rock! 😂

[@OnetrueGirl]

Thank you for the tips 😘

[@artistaccelerator]

You're very welcome OtG! :) Kisses back! ~Shane

[@PORTLANDOFFICIAL]

Damn, this is good!!

[@michaelrthrash1919]

Thank you!

[@artistaccelerator]

Right on Michael! Thank YOU! ~Shane

[@saraj4331]

Does the new chord need to be in the correct key that is being played?

[@jamieness6054]

sara j I would say no, for example he played D major in a song in the key of E

[@LOLCoolJ]

This is great

[@artistaccelerator]

Thanks a million LOL Cool J (awesome name BTW). Good luck with your music! ~Shane

[@adamkomusic]

This is great! I do the same!

[@artistaccelerator]

Right on Adam! Thank you! Best wishes for your music! ~Shane

[@Foodius]

I don't get it... maybe it's because I'm not a native english speaker but I just can't make sense of what he is saying... Does he just mean to take one note from a melody you already have and search through all the chords that can be made up with this note as the 1st-6th degree of the chord? That seems like a lot of chords to me. In that case I could just try pretty much every chord and see if it fits interestingly..

[@Cam-yp7cn]

Yea sure just try pretty much every chord. Definitely wouldn't be easier to use 6 chords that harmonize with the melody line. Go ahead and play every single fucking chord possible you stupid fuck.

[@HaharuRecords]

This time I like this guy,😇

[@kevinkoontzband]

Thank you - you are a genius to me

[@artistaccelerator]

I'm called a genius a lot, but not for the right reasons. It's more like..."that was a dumb move genius!" lol Seriously though, thank you for the comment! Best of luck with your music! ~Shane

[@joerivera3222]

I still don't understand can anyone simplify this a little more