By now you’ve probably learned most of the basic chords, you can perform a few different strumming and picking patterns and you can sing a little while you play. You’re thinking of writing a song of your own and maybe you stumbled on a few chords that sound cool together. Maybe you found some cool chords by accident.
Songwriting is all about expressing yourself and finding ways to turn your thoughts or emotions into sounds. Let’s talk about a few tools you can use to help you.
Songwriting is all about expressing yourself and finding ways to turn your thoughts or emotions into sounds. Let’s talk about a few tools you can use to help you.
Where do I start?
We need to find 2 or 3 chords that sound good together. Here we will look at chords in the key of C major and A minor to give us a place to start.
Progressions
When you play chords one after the other you are playing a chord progression. If you play C / Em / G / C you are playing a I iii V I progression in the key of C
Structure
Most pop songs have a structure like this INTRO, VERSE, BRIDGE, CHORUS, VERSE, BRIDGE, CHORUS, CHORUS. Each section is usually different to each other but you can also write a whole song with just 2 chords too!
