Dale's Songwriting Video. Part 1

kuovsk.anekask

Reading all these comments makes me so glad I learned music theory when I was a kid.

I'm still not much of a songwriter but theory definitely helps to make interesting chords and chord progressions that have personality and don't sound like everyone else's.

Silentiumbass

that was really interesting. In the begging i thought that what he was doing was pretty boring but when he added the root stuff it was really good

chichong

dame..... i think im just a "tab" player.....

Soring

hahahaha,
two *******s in one video! amazing!

TheDiegMyster

*Chants* Dale Dale Dale Dale!!!! Great Lesson dude!! This was explained PERFECTLY!! right on man!

fade_to_black18

lmao the guy in the begining of this video makes me laugh, i wonder if hes reading what hes saying..... haha

Kevin67

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zman@home

I found this really helpful as i have written a few songs but I feel I am in need of some new ideas. Thanks, I loved all the different chords for different sounds!

clemm

Great video.. im not to familiar with chords, but it sounded great!
Thanks for the help!

TZON

Nice, I can't wait to try some of this stuff.

mmplDCLXVI

I think the dominant function of the fifth chord in a major scale was explained quite poorly. It does not need to have the 7th note attached to it to be dominant. Just try and play C - F - G - C, and you can hear the tension. However, adding the 7th note (making it a G7, as shown in the video), will enhance the dominant function, almost forcing you to go back to the root chord? (is it called a 'tonic' chord? - i only know the names of these things in danish, so correct me if I'm wrong).

And, to put some truth in to Dale's words: Every time you encounter a major chord with the 7th note attached to it in a song, it's almost the dominant to the following chord every time.

Nevertheless, great tab, nice seeing some theory actually being put to use! And explaining the thing with shifting root notes was nice to, keep up the nice work Dale.

ScreamingCheeto

Excellent lesson, you're a very good teacher.

Mark2162

Dale, I thought your video was GREAT.... Helped me understand how to spice things up a bit. I hope you share more of your talents soon. You ARE helping people, that is a great gift. Thanks for teaching... that alone makes you special. Can you imagine what this world would be like without people like yourself. Thanks again

Jesse_Jones

I'm kind of confused... do you just plug in some chords with the 7th note or dominant thing whenever? And how do you get from say a G to a G7 or C to C7? Is there a system to that?

And when you give a chord a different base note, what ensures that said bass note will sound good with the rest of the chord?

Maybe I'm just brain-dead because it's late, but I had trouble following him.

sexualbreakfast

i like the beer in the bottom left of the screem lol.

Freshnoise

I've done chord inversions on the piano but never realized thats where chords like C/G came from. Awesome lesson, I learned a lot and I'm going to apply this to the next song I write.

i4gotmyname281

I have that shirt :]
It's my favorite

i4gotmyname281

I have that shirt D:
It's my fave

MasonF

It was alright, Seen Better, But alright.

unclebuck5

I thought that the lesson was interesting. I was familiar with the first portion of the lesson, but did not have a good understanding the next few concepts.

It makes more sense to me now. Looking forward to watching the next video. Thanks.

Topdoginuk

To help ya understand, watch my theory videos starting on part 1 at www.youtube.com/topdoginuk. Let me know if they help. Tony

SILAS123

I didnt understand much of that.
Music theory in englisch is kind of hard to understand when youre a sweed:-/

Perspective

I liked this very much. It feels good to go from teh basic major chords and change it one by one. you could learn somehting from the way this guy's teaching.

broninja

Sweeetttt. that totally helps... thnx!!!!!