Song Science #1: How Pros Use 6 Chords to Write Hit Songs

Name: Song Science #1: How Pros Use 6 Chords to Write Hit Songs
Rating: 4.5 (1512 reviews)

Practical songwriting theory for songwriters. Break out of your songwriting habits and develop new chord progressions.

(1,512 ratings)

9,954 students

Created by Musicians Inspired

Last updated 2/2023

English

English [Auto], Italian [Auto]

What you'll learn

Create chord progressions that invoke emotion in the listener
Understand how to use melody and chords to create different emotions
See real examples of how professional songwriters use chords in hit songs

Requirements

Have experience with an instrument to write songs on like piano or guitar

Description

Songwriting can be a lot of fun when you understand how chords work.

Especially if you've been using the same chords over and over again and want to write something fresh!

In this course, I show you how professional songwriters put together chords when songwriting. There are certain rules they follow. Once you understand the rules you can choose to use or break them.

We'll use real life example to demonstrate how the 6 most used chords in popular music work and work together.

Every lecture builds on the next lecture and is easy to follow. By the end you should be able to take a song concept, and start building chord progressions that make sense.

I you love songwriting and you want to start writing songs outside of your comfort zone, this course is for you.

I hope to see you on the inside!

-R

Who this course is for:

Anyone who loves songwriting and wants to write songs outside their comfort zone

Featured review

Nic K.

69 courses

17 reviews

3 years ago

Good course and basic overview of ways to use diatonic chords 1-6 in progressions. It would help when you're playing different examples to always start by saying which key you're in, maybe this is absent so the student has to listen and figure it out for themselves, which is valuable too.

Musicians Inspired

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Hi I'm Rob! A full-time musician and teacher in New York City and Los Angeles. I'm passionate about music and education.

I'm the founder of Musicians Inspired, a website dedicated to inspiring musicians to create by teaching them new skills FAST.

I'm also a former music instructor with a Fender Grant winning non-profit and teach privately. My students have ranged from signed recording artists and songwriters to working professionals who just love music.

I'm a bestselling Udemy Instructor and have been teaching since 2015. Many of my courses have been featured on Udemy. I have 60,000+ students and 8,000+ reviews, across 11 courses. I work with other teachers to help them achieve the same success.