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Music Theory for Songwriters
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3 hours 33 minutes 
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About Music Theory for Songwriters
1 Intro
2 Welcome
3. Terms
4. Notes
5. Intervals, Scales and Steps
6. Major and Minor scales by counting tones
7. Intervals on the Guitar
8. Note names on the guitar
9. Chords on the Guitar
10. All the Intervals
10.5 Download scales and chord charts
11. How chords are built
12. Major chord shapes
13. Minor chord shapes
14. Major-Minor Key comparisson
15. Diminished Chords
16. Dominant and Minor 7 Chords
17. Diminished chords Advanced Part 1
18. Diminished chords Advanced Part 2
19. Key Signatures
20. What are chord progressions
21. Make a Progression with Roman Numerals
22. Variations on I - IV - V
23. Roman Numerals in G
24. Why do we have different keys?
25. Minor vi chord
26. F maj - D maj
27. Going beyond the 4 chord progression
28. Minor chord tones
29. What is 6/8
30. Relative Keys
31. Transposition
32. Common chord progressions - Major
33 Common chord progressions - Minor
34. Tips, Exercises, Experiments with Chords Progressions
35. What is Melody?
36. Suggestions on Melody Writing
37. What is a Hook?
38. Techniques for finding a melody
39. Intervals with Song Examples Pt. 1
40. Intervals with Song Examples Pt. 2
41. Song Structure
42. Song Structure music examples
43. And just one more thing
What You Will Learn?
- In this course I will be teaching you everything you need to know for you to easily and confidently write the songs you have always want to. This course has been designed specifically for songwriters interested in popular music. You won't get bogged down trying to learn things that won't be necessary to write songs in pop, rock, folk, country, EDM and and many other styles. Just the music theory you need in easy, step by step lessons designed to inspire as you learn..
- You will be learning:.
- How to make scales (major and minor).
- How to make chords (major, minor, diminished and dominant).
- How to listen to different rhythms.
- How to use scales to develop and write great melodies.
- Song Structure (parts of a song).
- The power of intervals in songwriting.