Course curriculum
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Songwriting Week 1 Start Here!
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Video: Songwriting: Theory Overview
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Handout: Chromatic Scale
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Handout: Major Scale Chart
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Handout: Harmonized scale chart
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Video: Focusing on the I - IV - V Chords and song examples
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Handout: Blank Measures
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Handout: Progressions using I IV V for Blowin' in the Wind and Free Falling
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Video: More examples and ways to practice
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Handout: Ring of fire chart
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Handout: Ring of Fire Song
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Week 2 Start Here!
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Video: More on the V chord
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Handout: Song -I will survive
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Video: Adding the vi chord, with song samples
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Video: Your Song Sketching Mission!
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Handout: Song -Stand by me
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Handout: Song -Let it be
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Handout: Song -With or without you
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Handout: Song -Brown Eyed Girl
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Week 3 Start Here!
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Handout: Relative Minor
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Video: Looking at the vi chord - the relative minor
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Video: A brief overview of modes
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Video: Lyric Starters
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Video: Melody - finding target notes
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Video: You mission for this week
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Photos as song fodder
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Week 4 Start Here!
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Video: Reviewing the major scale chords and intervals for progressions and melodies - how to think about it
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Video: Finding Chords from a melody
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Video: Finding a Melody from chords
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Week 5 Start Here!
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Video: What Makes a Song Great?
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Video: Investigating the melody of Halleluljah
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Video: Using Hallelujah as fodder for song creation!
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Handout: Hallelujah Charted by Chords/Notes
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Handout: Hallelujah Charted by number
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Handout: Melody Paths
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Handout: Blank Charting Sheet
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Week #6 Start Here!
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Video: Harmonizing and renumbering the minor scale and using it!
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Video: Using My Guitar Gently Weeps as an example of using both a major and minor key
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Handout: Renumbering the relative minor and comparing to it's major
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HandoutL My Guitar Gently Weeps
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Handout: House of the Rising Sun
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About this course
- 58 lessons
- 2.5 hours of video content