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A great place to jump in to fingerstyle is Dust in the Wind. Here, we'll go over the pattern and intro chords, as wella s examine ways to apply the pattern elsewhere to your guitar and songwriting.
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A great place to jump in to fingerstyle is Dust in the Wind. Here, we'll go over the pattern and intro chords, as wella s examine ways to apply the pattern elsewhere to your guitar and songwriting.
Like this video? Thank my Patreon subscribers for sponsoring these lessons! They're the reason you don't see ads or sponsorships in the middle of my videos. You can join them here:
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Free online guitar lessons for beginners, intermediate, and advanced players. Located in Crystal Lake, Jake Lizzio provides free jam tracks and video lessons for guitar players, as well as music theory videos and other music education content.
![The Worlds Most Hopeful Chord - Picardy Third [Songwriting Lesson / Composition / Music Theory]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Be2-Qr4htrA/hqdefault.jpg "The Worlds Most Hopeful Chord - Picardy Third [Songwriting Lesson / Composition / Music Theory]
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The Picardy Third is a very recognizable and easy-to-learn musical concept. Although it has a long (and muddled) history, we can still hear it being used today in pop music. This video explores the basics behind the most hopeful chord, and demonstrates several modern examples of the chord being used.
Be on the lookout for Picardys in Pop music, theyre everywhere!
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Table of Contents:
00:00 Intro
00:48 What Are Picardy Thirds?
01:51 Roundabout Yes
02:14 Wanted Dead Or Alive Bon Jovi
02:46 Crazy Gnarles Barkley
03:30 A Nightmare To Remember Dream Theater
04:29 Game Of Thrones Theme
04:49 Wrapping Up")
![How to Sound Like Daft Punk, Tool, or EVERY Rock Band using Minor/Aeolian [Riffing With Modes #6]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Bz_q96JhSOg/hqdefault.jpg "How to Sound Like Daft Punk, Tool, or EVERY Rock Band using Minor/Aeolian [Riffing With Modes #6]
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This is the sixth video in a series on how to write riffs using the modes of major. Being the sixth in the episode, this lesson focuses on the Aeolian mode, which is identical to the natural minor scale. There is an argument to be made that there is a difference between Aeolian tonality and Minor tonality, which I touch on at the end.
The first style is a dancey funk song in the style of Daft Punk or Chromeo. In addition to basic music theory and songwriting advice, quite a bit of detail is mentioned on the audio production itself. Next, the riff is transformed into a Tool style crushing riff. Then lastly, a classic acoustic rock style intro that sounds all too recognizable.
Some videos you should have seen to be able to follow this one-
Minor Scale and Chords: https://youtu.be/j-j4g0ktPGw
Seventh Chords: https://youtu.be/3JizNRwHYNY
3+3+3+3+4: https://youtu.be/QFVS7y_zGRw
A few details I forgot to mention or want to clarify-
-ANY interval can funk in proper context. It’s purely subjective- please don’t pretend I’m citing fact when I say the flat seventh is the funkiest.
-The minor chords played in the background were inevitably going to become minor sevenths since I was writing funk. I don’t know how or why I neglected to mention this!
-If Aeolian had a signature sound, it would be the minor fifth chord (v). I’m slightly disappointed I didn’t feature it, since it is a unique sound of Aeolian. It’s very sad, and still usable. I may just make a video on the v chord so it doesn’t get ignored, but it really should have made an appearance here.
-I have met educated teachers who consider the fifth chord of a minor key to be major, even though it contains the leading tone which is out of the key signature. A lot of confusion about aeolian vs minor occurs because traditionally, the minor key is NOT thought of as a strict diatonic collection of only seven notes. Though clearly, if one were to build triads from the natural minor scale and not include the natural seventh, the fifth chord would be minor.
There is only one more Riffing with Modes lesson left – Locrian. It’s going to be weird.
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Table of contents:
00:00 Intro
00:32 Writing a Funk Riff
08:52 Adding Vocals
10:20 Musical Pockets
12:55 DANCE / FUNK SONG
13:46 Writing Tool Riffs
18:29 TOOL SONG
19:30 Writing Acoustic Intros
24:28 EVERY ROCK SONG
26:24 Aeolian vs Minor")
![Recreating the Genre I Hate Most - Bro Country [Songwriting + Structure + Arrangement]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/C-1ylXxKNGQ/hqdefault.jpg "Recreating the Genre I Hate Most - Bro Country [Songwriting + Structure + Arrangement]
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Skip to 11:48 to just hear the full track
In this video, I show you how to make a modern pop country song, aka BRO COUNTRY. I walk through the arrangement and writing techniques used, from a heavy reliance on pentatonic minor and cookie-cutter song structure to more obscure harmonies and techniques.
I hate to be negative, and I don’t want to dismiss this genre outright. But you can’t like everything, and this genre just rubs me the wrong way for reasons that may become obvious in the video. That doesn’t mean it’s bad music though- you like what you like. There’s lots of “good music” in the jazz realm that I can not stand listening to, that doesn’t negate it. Similarly, there’s lots of simple pop that I enjoy regardless of its basic nature.
But even though I don’t believe in good music or bad music, I still believe in good natured criticism, and hopefully this video gets the point across- the genre is very easy to write. I believed that before going into this video and wasn’t sure how successful I’d be at recreating this genre, but now that it’s done I give myself a B+
I must say this isn’t my first crack at a writing a country song. A little while back, I produced and wrote a song with a local artist named Cara Jeanne, and we were aiming for a more mature version of a Taylor Swift song before she went full pop mode. If you’d like to hear that song, you can find it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMzxAc554D0
I actually encourage you to do this sort of thing. It is a great way to build your skills and experience. As a modern professional composer, you don’t always have the luxury of writing in genres you like, so going way outside of your tastes like this is a surefire way to grow and evolve.
To expand on what happened with my harmonies- when It was only a parallel third, I liked it. But when I added in 6ths, it worked, but I felt it could be more interesting. Instead, I had the harmonies during the 2nd and 3rd choruses outline little bits of each chord tone as they tried their best to maintain a parallel motion. It didnt always work and I still dont like how theyre mixed but it does add an incredible amount of interest to an otherwise simple pentatonic melody.
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Table of Contents:
00:00 Intro
02:02 Writing A Chorus
05:59 Writing A Verse
07:26 Writing A Second Verse
07:53 Writing A Second Chorus
09:32 Writing A Guitar Solo
10:11 Adding A Quiet Pseudo-Chorus
10:54 The Final Chorus
11:48 TRUK BFF
13:57 Wrapping Up")
![Seventeen Days - Jake Lizzio [Lo Fi Jazz Hip Hop]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/CR01l2THDOU/hqdefault.jpg "Seventeen Days - Jake Lizzio [Lo Fi Jazz Hip Hop]
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Additional credits:
Mark Kahovec - Sax
Mike Muggli - Keys
Jeff Schwertfeger - Samples
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![Six Spooky Secrets Composers use to SCARE you [Music Theory / Composition]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/CezFEDWth-c/hqdefault.jpg "Six Spooky Secrets Composers use to SCARE you [Music Theory / Composition]
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![Writing Music Off Of A Bass Line in 5 Styles [SONGWRITING - ARRANGEMENT - MUSIC THEORY]]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/DaJRzT_NMXs/hqdefault.jpg "Writing Music Off Of A Bass Line in 5 Styles [SONGWRITING - ARRANGEMENT - MUSIC THEORY]]
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A bass line is a great place to start when writing music, but its too easy to get stuck in a box and forget how versatile a simple boring bass line can be. In this lesson/demonstration well be experimenting with transforming a single bass line into 5 different genres of music by using different techniques.
Special thanks to Roger Reupert for playing the lick for me in this video!
The following theory topics are touched upon-
Chords of Minor:https://youtu.be/j-j4g0ktPGw
Chords of Dorian:https://youtu.be/hyZPcYf1Pe4
Seventh Chords:https://youtu.be/3JizNRwHYNY
Sounding like David Gilmour:https://youtu.be/bPzVx3q9UtI
A huge thank you to my Patreon subscribers for sponsoring these videos, including the following folks:
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Table of Contents:
00:00 Intro
00:40 The Bass Line
02:04 Rock/Metal
03:25 EDM
04:28 Blues
07:07 Funk
09:19 Space Rock
12:45 Wrapping Up")
