Unlocking Musical Creativity With The Circle Of Fifths

The Circle of Fifths is a great tool for composing, chord progressions and modulating keys.
As I’ve delved into the world of music theory, I’ve discovered the power of this tool to inspire / guide my improvising process. In this video, I share my learning experience and the ideas that have sprung from it, hoping to help others.
I have remade this video after getting valuable feedback in the comments to make it more clear and easier to follow. New content has been added, animations have also been added, chords are now highlighted with notes as they are being played. Info sheets are added so information can be read more easily and the voice over quality has been improved.
Correction at 6:06 - Chords at bottom, should be: C - G7 - Em7 - E7 - A and the target key on the outside of the wheel should be A Major (shame I missed that in the numerous edits, will have to stop using cut and paste!)
The previous video can be found here:
• Unlocking Musical Crea...
0:00 Introduction
0:11 Building A Circle Of Fifths
1:09 Which Chords Belong To A Key
1:31 Going Outside The Wheel
2:13 I Will Survive Example
3:07 Just The Two Of Us Example
3:30 Primary And Secondary Dominant Chords
4:01 Using Dominant Chords To Change Key
4:26 Going Clockwise Around The Wheel
5:14 Using Pivot Chords
5:47 Switching From Minor To Major (see correction notes in description)
6:10 Always A Woman To Me Example
6:58 Chromatic Mediants
7:38 Wuthering Heights Example
8:00 Tritone Substitutions
9:05 Thank You
Thank you for watching, and please let me know what you think, as this is also a learning process for me :).
Borrowed chords video is here:
• Adding Colour To Music...

[@geoffwatson]

Fantastic - thanks for the update. Love it.

[@scaledtuna]

Thanks for that @geoffwatson :).

[@lawrencetaylor4101]

This was way too helpful. Merci.

[@scaledtuna]

Je t'en prie, @lawrencetaylor4101 thanks for letting me know.

[@cathroze]

Hi there, this is really helpful…. Thank you. I’m writing my own songs and want to make chord progressions more interesting. I love your posts. ❤

[@scaledtuna]

I am glad you found this helpful, please feel free to add links to your own songs.

[@billhasty5197]

Very Good. Thanks. Subscribed.

[@scaledtuna]

Thanks @billhasty5197, much appreciated.

[@StephenSecretSSmith0007]

💯💥🤙🤘 I actually just found out through another video, Tritone sub is Diagonally across. 👌👌

[@scaledtuna]

I suppose it makes sense in retrospect, a tritone (or six semitones) is half way between an octave eg c-f#-c. Thanks for watching and feedback.

[@korantengstephen3820]

Very informative but I wish you'd make the keyboard more visible

[@scaledtuna]

Thanks for that, I will keep that in mind for the next video. Were you watching on a mobile device and did you mean the keyboard at the bottom or at the sides?