Music Theory for Songwriters: The Fundamentals/ with Julian Velard.

Format:

Video

Author/Creator:

Velard, Julian, speaker.

Contributor:

linkedin.com (Firm)

Language:

English

Genre:

Instructional films.

Educational films.

Video recordings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

polychrome

Place of Publication:

Carpenteria, CA:: linkedin.com, 2015.

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Summary:

Professional musician Julian Velard demonstrates the basics of music theory through the lens of songwriting. Learn about intervals, chord progressions, and voice leading, and using common song forms to organize your own musical ideas.

Music theory is fundamental to making and playing music. However, no one has taught it in such a user-friendly and songwriting-focused way as we do here, using both keyboard and guitar to demonstrate the techniques. Professional musician Julian Velard starts the course with the building blocks of harmony: notes, scales, intervals, chords, inversions, and basic chord progressions. He then goes into voice leading?showing how to move from one chord to another by changing just one or two notes?and reviews common song forms, from the familiar verse/chorus/verse of pop to the simple verse of the blues. At the end of each chapter, Julian explains the songwriting techniques shown in the chapter within the context of his own original commercially released songs.

Participant:

Presenter: Julian Velard

Notes:

9/18/20151

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.