Course curriculum

    1. Songwriting Week 1 Start Here!

    2. Video: Songwriting: Theory Overview

    3. Handout: Chromatic Scale

    4. Handout: Major Scale Chart

    5. Handout: Harmonized scale chart

    6. Video: Focusing on the I - IV - V Chords and song examples

    7. Handout: Blank Measures

    8. Handout: Progressions using I IV V for Blowin' in the Wind and Free Falling

    9. Video: More examples and ways to practice

    10. Handout: Ring of fire chart

    11. Handout: Ring of Fire Song

    1. Week 2 Start Here!

    2. Video: More on the V chord

    3. Handout: Song -I will survive

    4. Video: Adding the vi chord, with song samples

    5. Video: Your Song Sketching Mission!

    6. Handout: Song -Stand by me

    7. Handout: Song -Let it be

    8. Handout: Song -With or without you

    9. Handout: Song -Brown Eyed Girl

    1. Week 3 Start Here!

    2. Handout: Relative Minor

    3. Video: Looking at the vi chord - the relative minor

    4. Video: A brief overview of modes

    5. Video: Lyric Starters

    6. Video: Melody - finding target notes

    7. Video: You mission for this week

    8. Photos as song fodder

    1. Week 4 Start Here!

    2. Video: Reviewing the major scale chords and intervals for progressions and melodies - how to think about it

    3. Video: Finding Chords from a melody

    4. Video: Finding a Melody from chords

    1. Week 5 Start Here!

    2. Video: What Makes a Song Great?

    3. Video: Investigating the melody of Halleluljah

    4. Video: Using Hallelujah as fodder for song creation!

    5. Handout: Hallelujah Charted by Chords/Notes

    6. Handout: Hallelujah Charted by number

    7. Handout: Melody Paths

    8. Handout: Blank Charting Sheet

    1. Week #6 Start Here!

    2. Video: Harmonizing and renumbering the minor scale and using it!

    3. Video: Using My Guitar Gently Weeps as an example of using both a major and minor key

    4. Handout: Renumbering the relative minor and comparing to it's major

    5. HandoutL My Guitar Gently Weeps

    6. Handout: House of the Rising Sun

About this course

  • 58 lessons
  • 2.5 hours of video content