In some cases it’s hard to know where to start when coming up with a chord acceleration for a new song. One great resource, is to look at the chord progressions used in other songs you love. Chord progressions them selves can’t be copyrighted. Technically, if you take the chord progression right from another song you like, you’re within your rights to do that so if you put your own original melody and lyrics on top of the item. As an example, there are a ton of songs out there that use a good I-V-VIm-IV chord progression. Checkout our new song : Something Beautiful – New Song
If you haven’t already seen them, do a Google or YouTube search for “Axis of Magnificent – 4 Chords. ” They’re a group that sort out a video that strings together a ton of hit songs that use the I-V-VIm-IV chord progression. It’s really incredible when you see in what way common that chord progression is. You’ve heard almost all these songs, but you probably never realized they have the same blend structure when you’re listening to them. So make sure you check that released if you haven’t already seen it.
With that in mind, when you’re viewing other songs to see what chord progressions they use, it’s a good idea to modify the way they play those chords to give the chords your own private style. Here are three ways to do that:
One thing you could do could be to change the length of how long each chord is played, by just either shortening or lengthening each chord. You could possibly even lengthen some and shorten others. You’d still be with the same chords from a song you referenced, but now that they had have a totally different feel.
Another modification you could make is ty trying the chords from one song that you like but use the rhythmic feel and strumming pattern from a second song you like. This tends to really breathe a new life into those chords. For that reason maybe you’ll take the chords from “Back in Black” by AC/DC, but you’ll play them with a fingerpicking style and rhythm similar to what’s used in “Blackbird” by way of the Beatles. When you start thinking in this way, you can come up with some really interesting collisions that may work great for a song of yours is. You’ll have to experiment with it to see what works best.
One other idea you can try is taking the chords from a song you like and even playing twice (or half) the amount of notes on each note, while playing the overall chord the for the same amount of time as your reference song. This is another way to mess around with changing the very rhythm of the chords, except now you’re not relying on a moment reference song to do that.
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