Channel: Bill Hilton

Category: Music

Description: Writing chord progressions isn't hard if you know a few basics — neither is it difficult to make them a little more "jazzy" with chord extensions, secondary dominant chords, chromatic mediants and one or two other straightforward techniques. In this tutorial I cover ALL the basics of building a chord progression, and also show you how you can take your progressions to the next level. Book bundle deal: billspianopages.com/bundle All six of my Piano Packs for £16.95: billspianopages.com/pianopacks Check out my Patreon page: patreon.com/billhilton Chapters: 00:00 Stuff you can do with this tutorial 01:24 Music theory basics 1: scales and chords 04:09 Music theory basics 2: diatonic chords, tonics, dominants 06:38 Resolution and V-I cadences in chord progressions 09:51 Adding chords other than V and I 13:11 Two exercises: building basic chord progressions 16:12 Enriching progressions with chord extensions 20:40 More on chord extensions 23:56 Non-diatonic chords: basics and secondary dominants 23:26 Exercise: extending chords in a progression 29:05 Other non-diatonics: the “magic second” (II7) and shared/neighbouring tones 32:27 Chromatic mediant chords 38:08 Four essential tips Image credits: kohanova1991/Adobe Stock majonit/Adobe Stock grandfailure/Adobe stock