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Song Science #1: How Pros Use 6 Chords to Write Hit Songs (Udemy.com)

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

Created by: Musicians Inspired

Last updated February 2023

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What you will 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

How it compares

Against the other 270 rated Udemy courses in Music on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.7 out of 5higher than 61% of them
  • Reviews1,579#32 of 271 by number of reviews
  • Length0.9 hoursshorter than 95% of them
  • Last updatedFebruary 2023earlier than 54% of them

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Course 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

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Instructor Details

Musicians Inspired

Musicians Inspired is dedicated to inspiring musicians to create by teaching them new skills FAST.

Musicians Inspired has been on Udemy since 2015. Many of Musicians Inspired courses have been featured on Udemy. There are currently 70,000+ students and 8,000+ reviews, across 11 courses.
Musicians Inspired continues to push the envelope on music curriculum design.  Feel free to checkout our website for more information.
Look forward to seeing you in the online courses!

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Reviews

4.7

1,579 ratings on Udemy

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By Robert Volkman on 5/30/2023

This course was really what I was looking for. So many theory courses just say start with the one pick random chords and end on the tour or five. This course was really good in expounding on the two, three and six chords and shows you why and how to use them. This is a topic that has been very elusive up to this point.

By Aniruddha Prabhu on 11/15/2020

Great for beginners to get into Music Theory required for efficient songwriting.

By Andy Taylor on 9/14/2020

Not only did I get to learn how to write nice melodies, I got to learn the basic to the piano!

By James Roland on 9/5/2020

Yes

By Luis Alberto Garcia Navarro on 9/1/2020

This is what i was looking for! All i have learned is so much usefull!

By Paul Hindmarch on 8/4/2020

The information delivered through a computer screen was informative and watchable. The first four videos of the tutor at a piano keyboard were frustratingly jerky and periodically stopped and started. There is nothing wrong with my device or Internet connection as it has been used to watch many other course videos from different tutors without issue and it has been checked.
I did contact the tutor about this issue and also asked if the second course in this series had a lot of piano video footage. I was told that the fault was not at his end, but the question about the second course was not answered.

By Despina on 8/1/2020

I learned very useful information. Thank you!

By Benedicte on 7/26/2020

The teacher explains clearly and simply.

By Jos Imedio on 7/20/2020

Muy buena informacin con muy buenos ejemplos. La nica pega que pondra es que se queda muy corto.

By Jason Rodgers on 7/19/2020

Great beginner course!

By Spence Munsinger on 7/18/2020

Outstanding insights. Clear, complete, comprehensive, understandable and valuable. BVrings in the emotion connected to how music is structured in a practical and useful way

By Judith Carol Hutton on 7/16/2020

Been playing keyboards for years with a few lessons. Have no idea what the I, iii, V, etc. mean. Could we put some keys to those chords? Instructor went very fast, and I guess assumes we all know what he's talking about.

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Overall Score : 94 / 100