Songwriting Workshop: Harmony

Learn how harmony can help you to articulate the essential meaning of a song, and the best ways to adapt chords and progressions to suit your unique songwriting style and ideas.

This course presents the "power progressions" behind countless hit songs, and dozens of ways to adapt these progressions into your own personal songwriting. Whether you are an experienced songwriter looking for new ideas or a beginning songwriter who can't read music, this course will lead you to a rich source of songwriting possibilities. You'll use techniques such as modulation and cadences to craft the essential dramatic architecture of your songs. By participating in a group of songwriters, you'll have the opportunity to share your work with others, get their feedback, and see different ways that these tools can be used, under the mentorship of a master songwriter. By the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Generate a groove and chord colors
• Identify five common key colors
• Understand and build songs from power progressions
• Use melody and harmony for color
• Use cadences and connecting songs with cadences
• Understand modulation in songs

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