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[0:17] today we're talking about songwriting uh
[0:19] working with little pieces that you may
[0:21] have and turning them into something
[0:23] more before we even do that step one is
[0:27] whenever you play something even halfway
[0:29] into interesting or surprising to
[0:35] yourself immediately grab your phone or
[0:37] whatever way that you capture things and
[0:39] get it creativity is a magical little
[0:42] thing and it really you know it's
[0:44] different for everybody but I can only
[0:46] speak for myself you get very little
[0:48] Sparks very little I met grab it and so
[0:50] it's our job as creative people to
[0:52] become aware when cool stuff happens
[0:55] I've said that in other videos that like
[0:57] the more you pay attention to when cool
[1:00] little things happen okay guess what the
[1:02] more cool things happen so assuming that
[1:05] you've done that and maybe you have a
[1:08] progression here a riff there a
[1:10] progression there a riff there now we're
[1:12] going to talk about how you can work
[1:14] with those to get them to become
[1:17] complete songs I'm going to use existing
[1:18] songs because well that'll be just more
[1:21] entertaining for everybody say we wrote
[1:23] Lou Reed's perfect day
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[1:42] which yeah it's also Cat Stevens's wild
[1:44] world it's also I Will Survive it's
[1:46] several songs so that's a really cool
[1:48] progression that we came up with in a
[1:50] minor and it might just live there like
[1:53] that for forever we might just be stuck
[1:55] with that going that's cool I'm going to
[1:57] use that for something neat all right
[1:59] store it away and who knows months later
[2:02] maybe you came up with this
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[2:18] thing where's the melody if I get that a
[2:20] little
[2:27] bit which is really uh that's the chord
[2:30] is from uh what was that song Sister
[2:31] Golden Hair by America another 70s soft
[2:34] rock hit I love that stuff so that
[2:38] chorus is let's see
[2:42] B
[2:43] A and you're like man that's a cool
[2:46] thing too that's neat you wouldn't think
[2:48] that you could put those two things
[2:49] together you know if you had made those
[2:51] little uh song Parts but you can and
[2:55] here's the deal this is another thing I
[2:57] always talk about write stuff down we
[2:59] got to write stuff down to like kind of
[3:01] think about it in front of us being like
[3:03] huh okay so here's how Eric
[3:07] does quick and simple
[3:10] charts talked about this in my music
[3:13] Theory series oh by the
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[3:26] there too guitars amps whatever else
[3:30] there you go simple chart right those
[3:32] equal bars huh what do we got
[3:35] b b a e does it again b b a e then I'll
[3:45] let's go ahead and put the rest in F
[3:48] minor e over G sharp and then
[3:53] a CS two would be the complete chorus
[3:57] there in the key of E so if I want to
[4:00] move that to be copacetic with this
[4:02] other imaginary thing that we made
[4:05] up I need
[4:07] to understand the major scale and how
[4:11] that generates chords in the key so that
[4:13] I can analyze this as the chords in the
[4:15] key not just as they are so B is
[4:18] actually the
[4:20] five a is the four e is the one and this
[4:23] is the thing that I talk about we don't
[4:25] need to know all the music theory in the
[4:27] world but we need to know
[4:30] enough um so that we can major keys and
[4:34] those chords minor keys and those chords
[4:37] and then we can analyze things and take
[4:38] a look at be like oh okay so it's 541
[4:42] 541 214 is is our chorus because that
[4:46] means then if the perfect day chorus or
[4:51] sorry Perfect Day section you know which
[4:53] we had imaginarily made
[4:55] up was in the key of A minor I be like
[4:59] dude dud let's go ahead and just move
[5:02] this whole section to the key of a major
[5:05] CU that's what perfect day does um it
[5:08] has the verse is in a minor the CH is in
[5:10] a major so I'm going to keep it the same
[5:13] okay so let's see that means again
[5:15] having a know enough theory that I can
[5:17] be like what's my five chord in the key
[5:20] of a well that's e what's my four chord
[5:23] D and a is
[5:25] one does that again what's the two cord
[5:29] in the key of A B
[5:32] minor kind of does that little inversion
[5:35] thing and then the
[5:37] four boom I just moved it to the key
[5:41] that's going to be copacetic with
[5:42] perfect
[5:45] day just hear how that
[5:52] sounds can I get the melody there
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[6:17] by the way I'll tab all this stuff out
[6:18] put it up on my patreon page for free so
[6:20] you can go grab that and kind of look at
[6:24] it and scratch your head and be like boy
[6:26] this is very academic Eric sorry
[6:30] one more
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[6:37] time so there it is Sister Golden Hair
[6:40] moved to the key of A but let me go back
[6:44] and
[6:46] check uh-oh different time
[6:54] sign watch I'm going to do it I'm going
[6:56] to just shoehorn them together
[7:01] 1 2 3 4 five
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[7:11] six oops nope that's not going to work
[7:13] because perfect day that original thing
[7:15] we wrote is in 68 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 5
[7:21] 6 Sister Golden here you know that we
[7:24] made up no we didn't is in 44 okay that
[7:28] means can I put
[7:30] Sister Golden her to
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[7:38] 68 yes I
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[7:50] can now let's put the two together the
[7:53] verse
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[8:11] new thing
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[8:41] back
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[8:52] around and so it works you know again
[8:54] our ear it's doing you know it's like
[8:57] fighting against me it's going that's
[8:59] not the chorus that's not the chorus I
[9:01] know because you know we programmed to
[9:04] hear the song a certain way but it
[9:05] doesn't not work is a little bit funky
[9:07] cuz perfect day ends on an E major the
[9:11] new section starts on the E major so
[9:13] that's always a little bit of a weird
[9:14] thing but it's not a wrong thing to do
[9:16] again this is Art you can do whatever
[9:18] you want I'm not saying this is the
[9:19] coolest matchup ever made but I think it
[9:21] illustrates the point and the point is
[9:23] this a good idea is a good idea
[9:27] regardless of key or Groove that all
[9:32] your ideas especially because they came
[9:33] from you they're actually probably able
[9:36] to get manipulated to work with each
[9:39] other to create a bridge a verse to A
[9:43] Chorus a verse to a pre- chorus to A
[9:45] Chorus a verse to a break you know I
[9:47] mean these things that you've made they
[9:50] probably actually work together you just
[9:52] might not see that um because of the the
[9:56] the keys being different or the grooves
[9:58] being different and I can tell you I I
[10:00] mean I do this all this is how I write
[10:03] music a lot I'll be like I'll have a
[10:06] thing that was you know
[10:08] cool for one was like my favorite part
[10:12] of one thing that I made up of the rest
[10:14] of the song was really a throwaway I'm
[10:15] like well then I'll just move that to a
[10:17] do
[10:23] thing you know to a new key and be like
[10:26] ah it worked it it it it worked so so to
[10:29] review capture every good little idea
[10:32] that you ever have cuz yay you know the
[10:34] more you do that the more cool little
[10:36] ideas you have and then yeah no enough
[10:39] music theory to be able to look at
[10:42] things as chord changes and manipulate
[10:44] them through different keys because
[10:46] that's how you can recombine things in
[10:47] various
[10:50] ways thanks so much to everybody who
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[10:59] would say be excellent to each other
[11:01] that includes yourself happy Friday eat
[11:03] pizza
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