Dale's Songwriting Video. Part 2

ShredderOmega

I like that Jimi style bit, I've been writeing an accoustic song since the last vid. and I like lots of open strings like that Jeff Buckley guy, pretty cool stuff.

jAzZMataZz

i'm not sure but i don't think john frusciante wrote "my friends" i think dave navarro did. didn't he?

White Devil

interesting stuff, even if the last bit did sound like the backing to the Zelda Theme

Dale_Turner

Yeah, I dropped the ball on that one--I was kind of ad-libbing my wording... I realized later that night, after filming this, that I said the wrong song :-( I meant to say "Scar Tissue." I felt so lame :-( But thanks for noticing... I LOVE both those guys.... Later!

Dale

RocknEf'inRoll

Pretty cool vid. Really liked the Jimi portion you did. What scales/mode is this chord progression based off of? Really liked the licks you had between chords, very Jimi. Props, keep the vids coming.

Feel bad inc.

Great video.

mray

great vid Dale. Like everyone else i loved the jimi section. Noticed you finger some of ur chords unusually.

UNIe

That was cool, but this lesson would be even better with a tab

Night_Lights

that was very helpful. Often I'll learn new chords and maybe put em into a progression, but i couldn't seem to make them sound musical. This helped me a lot

Necromanga

Great! Just what a newbie guitar player like me needs!

Trisomy21

uh pretty poor example of Buckley.

Shuk

Good lesson! Some other guys that use pretty unique voicings and fingering techniques are Antoine Dufour, Andy McKee, Don Ross, and Michael Hedges.

Soring

damn, music actually isn't an exact science, you douche...
go play with your penis or something!

Dale_Turner

Glad you enjoyed it, mray! I didn't expect so many people would dig the Jimi attempt, but I'm TOTALLY glad--he's king!!! (Well, one of them....)

And I wonder what chords I fingered weirdly.... I see I "barred" something with my pinky once... and some "thumb" fretting stuff... I'm bassackwards!

Take care,
Dale

Dale_Turner

Thanks for the tip!!! I'm aware of most of those guys, but not Dufour and Ross. I will investigate!! Cool :

Have a rad weekend,
Dale

Dale_Turner

I'm glad Night Lights! Learn as many ways to mess with different versions of the same basic chords, and you'll have a lot more variety in your songwriting. At least I know it helps me. Keep rawkin'!!!

See ya,
Dale

Dale_Turner

Rockin'F! Each one of those fills is a doublestop thing yanked out of the following scales, changing with each chord:

C
C maj Pent (C-D-E-G-A) w/sus4 (F)

G/B
G maj Pent (G-A-B-D-E) w/sus4 (C)

C7/Bb

C Mixo Pent (C-D-E-G-Bb)

F/A
F maj Pent (F-G-A-C-D)

Fm/Ab
F min Pent (F-Ab-Bb-C-Eb)

C/G
C maj Pent (C-D-E-G-A)

G
G maj Pent (G-A-B-D-E) w/sus4 (C)

Hope that helps!!! On my INTIMATE AUDIO web site, I have a (totally free) lessons page that breaks some of that stuff down, FYI.

Later!
Dale

Quicksand15

that was really impressive! it kind of opened a door for me xD
i will definately practise theses techniques more often!
thanks a lot and greetings from germany!

BMTuga

love frusciante n jimi styles.. I'm inspired now... =) thanks for this huge lesson, you should put up some more stuff. =P
Rock on

RocknEf'inRoll

awesome! Thanks again Dale, keep them vids coming!!

Divinephyton

Dude, awesome video's.
I really liked the Jimi-like lick
Overall very helpful stuff man, thx! You might have just saved some kids from mindless 3-chorded songs! :p

tonyr

Really good stuff. Any chance the tab or chords for the lesson could get posted? There were some really interesting chords in there....what were they??? Need to know.

Greensky

Awsome, these lessons helped a lot more than any others i could find on this topic. I've already begun working on a song with this method of writing. THANK YOU!

GNR's Fan

Hey dale can maybe write down how you play the chords when you play the open chords ? Say I want to play a C open chord ?

FlamingYouth

great video(s)! wish i knew more theory so i could fully understand everything you explained. cheers!