Master Songs with the Circle of Fifths
The Circle of Fifths is your most powerful tool as a songwriter. With it, you can quickly make sense of chord progressions -- to see why a song sounds so good. Here, we look at a variety of tunes by different artists to learn how they composed their hits. It's like X-ray vision into the minds of these musicians....
0:00 Welcome
2:38 "1979," The Smashing Pumpkins -- diagrams of Chorus & Verse
6:25 "1979" on the ChordMap
10:20 "Sweet Home Alabama," Lynyrd Skynard -- diagrams of Chorus & Verse
14:33 "Sweet Home Alabama" on the ChordMap
19:56 "Clocks," Coldplay -- diagrams of Chorus & Verse
23:52 "Clocks" on the ChordMap
26:38 "Clocks," Coldplay -- diagram of Bridge
27:42 "Clocks" bridge on the ChordMap
31:23 "Zombie," The Cranberries -- diagrams of Chorus & Verse
33:50 "Zombie" on the ChordMap
36:45 "Garden Party," Rick Nelson -- diagram of Verse
40:05 "Garden Party" on the ChordMap
42:19 "Garden Party" -- diagram of Chorus
43:20 Wrap up
44:33 Q: How do I combine intervals and circle?
49:30 Q: Do most songwriters do this intuitively?
51:04 Q: Where to get a ChordMap? (MyColorMusic.com)
53:41 C: Seems that changing modes happens between major/minor?
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