Chord Progressions - Part 2
Lesson 12 from: Music Theory for Electronic ProducersTomas George
Chord Progressions - Part 2
Lesson 12 from: Music Theory for Electronic ProducersTomas George
Lesson Info
12. Chord Progressions - Part 2
Lessons
Introduction
00:58 2Basic Music Theory Terms
08:07 3Keyboard Layout and Octaves
06:19 4Working out Major Scales
08:58 5Perfect 5ths
06:42 63rds - Part 1
08:05 73rds - Part 2
07:39 8Perfect 4ths
04:36Chords and Inversions - Part 1
10:05 10Chords and Inversions - Part 2
09:13 11Chord Progressions - Part 1
10:22 12Chord Progressions - Part 2
08:26 13Inversions
08:53 147th Chords
09:48 15Chord Extensions
08:09 16Suspended Chords
02:40 17The Circle of 5ths
04:30 18Minor Scales
08:09 19Chords in the Natural Minor scale
09:56 20Harmonic and Melodic Minor
09:30 21Write the Chords, then the Melody
09:03 22Write the Melody, then the Chords
18:01 23Arpeggios
08:00 24Writing Bass Parts
11:35 25Writing Bass Riffs and Adapting Melodies
14:10 26Song Analysis - Chords, Part 1
10:17 27Song Analysis - Chords, Part 2
05:58 28Song Analysis - Melody
08:55 29Song Analysis - Arrangement
07:30 30Song 2 Analysis - Arrangement
05:04 31Song 2 Analysis - Chords
08:55 32Song 2 Analysis - Melodies
06:34 33Song 3 Analysis - Chords
11:41 34Song 3 Analysis - Melodies and Arrangement
06:55 35Create a Song from a Drum Beat - Part 1
10:22 36Create a Song from a Drum Beat - Part 2
18:47 37Create a Song from a Drum Beat - Part 3
18:49 38Create a Song from a Drum Beat - Part 4
08:21 39Create a Song from a Chord Progression - Part 1
08:16 40Create a Song from a Chord Progression - Part 2
08:07 41Create a Song from a Melody - Part 1
07:27 42Create a Song from a Melody - Part 2
09:05 43Modes Intro
04:10 44Ionian
00:43 45Dorian
04:31 46Phrygian
02:09 47Lydian
01:35 48Mixolydian
02:13 49Aeolian
00:39 50Locrian
01:50 51Dorian Mode Example
09:12 52Pentatonic Scales
12:27Lesson Info
Chord Progressions - Part 2
OK. And another one is 15634145, a bigger core progression. You may have heard the song Pack and Bell's Cannon old classical song. It's really common song. You've probably heard it hundreds, maybe thousands of times. That's the core progression that he used. And of course, there's the blues which is 1111144115511. You've probably heard that hundreds of times as well. So it's just the 14 times, the four, the major fourth, twice, the one, twice more, the major fifth and then the, twice again, then we have uh smoke on the water or the Purple Haze po called Progression, which is 245, really common one. Let's just put that in. So 24 and five, I already know already that 24 and five in D major is Emina. And then it's GG major and then a major. So E minor, G major, a major. It took me a minute to realize that. Let's just go back just to check. So E minor, G major A so D basically just DG and a oh sorry, E minor. G and A, it starts on the two. You can put the D, you could have DG and a, you co...
uld have E minor. G and a, you could have F sharp, minor, B minor. Um A major, there's no real rule. You can just flip them around. Put what you want. I'm gonna make one up. Now, let's start with E minor. OK. So we know E minus starts on E then skip one out. So it's a G and then one out. So it's a B. So you can tell this is a minor because the gap's smaller. 123412345. So we've got the one. Now, let's put in, well, the, the first call, which is the E minor. Let's put in the, uh, let's put in six. So B minor. OK. So already that, and let's put in day the major, the one. So skip one out here. So it's 123 and then 45 finishes on A, you can tell this is a major because that's bigger. 123451234. And let's put in two more. Now let's put the C# diminish just for fun as a leading chord and then finish on the A. So C C# into A. So let's move the C# and then we're going to miss one out. So it's 123 and then 45 on the G. This might sound a bit weird. But it's a leading chord and then we're going to finish on the five which is an A major. Ok. So let's just drag this over and then find a major. So there we go, missed one out. So we go to the C# missed one out. So we go to the E so 123451234. So here we've got E minor B minor. Bit more minor sounding D major C# diminished. The weird 14 and 412341234. Then a major 123451234. I just threw this together just by looking at these here and just picking whatever. Of course, there's the common ones like this 1564164515634145. Uh The blues 245541 which is Sweet Home Alabama or Sweet child of mine. But these are just a guideline use whatever you want use, whatever you think sounds good. There's no golden rule. So let's just, uh create a little rhythm here. I quite liked it with a rhythm before. OK. OK. And let's hear what this sounds like with the drums as well just to put some chords in really quickly. I know it's gonna be pretty much in tune. It's gonna sound a bit weird at the end, but that's just a leading chord. I might even just put one stab there just so it comes in quickly and then it goes, let's hear this. A C# one does sound pretty weird, but it's only there just as a little leading cord so you could leave it. I probably wouldn't put that in. Let's change this to something that sounds a bit more usable. Let's change this to F sharp Minor. OK. The third one. F sharp Minor. So let's go back and let's go down to F sharp, miss one out. So it's a and then miss one out. So it's C# I still don't like that. I think the fourth would sound good. Gee, let's try that. So it's all about experimenting and just going in and trying stuff out. So, 12345. So it needs to be up there. 1234, we could even change the five at the end. It doesn't have to be an A, we could put it back on the G. Let's try that. So we just copied this over. It doesn't really sound as good as the other ones because the other ones, we've actually heard hundreds thousands of times, these really common ones here. This is why these sound good because we're just so so used to it and they do work, but the way they've been put together just works and that's why they've been used so many times. So what I'd say is go through these most common ones. 15641645. And then maybe the 245 and then the 541 go through these, write them all out like I did and then just experiment, move stuff around and try and find your own core progressions. So this is basically what core progressions are just a bunch of chords put together effectively. But you do need to write out tone tone semi to tone tone, tone semitone until you internalize all the different notes in a major scale. For example, you should know ac major, it's just all the white notes. So maybe you don't need to write that out. You just know it's all the notes that aren't sharp or flat. So you could do that quite easily. And then you can go through and work out with major minor, minor, major, major, minor diminished major. So C major D minor, E minor, F major G major, A minor B diminished and back to C. So if you work this out every single key or at least the most common ones, the ones you might want to use start C major, then maybe go on to D major G major A major. And then experiment, you can use the black notes as well. Don't be scared of using the black notes. This is basically how you can work out the chords you can play and then put together a load of different core progression. Start off with the most common ones and then feel free to experiment, move stuff around, try and stay in key for now to try and use the chords that fit in the key. Then later on when you get a bit more advanced, you can experiment with different chords and different keys, but maybe wait a while until I explain that a bit further on throughout this course. So thank you for watching this lecture all about core progressions. I hope you found it useful in the next lecture we're going to be looking at inversions.
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