As you progress through these videos there will be certain goal to meet:

At any time you are inspired to write your own song (or song fragment) please document it. The easiest way is to record it on your phone. Feel free to share with me and I can give comments. Please note I would only give comments on structural/theoretical aspects, as songwriting is very subjective and as they say, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Lesson 6 : Pick any note on the keyboard and write a major and minor scale using the tone/semi-tone method
Lesson 10 : name and find any interval on the piano/guitar up to one octave apart.
Lesson 16 : pick any note and build a major/minor/dominant/diminished and minor 7 chord by using the step counting method
Lesson 22 : Write your own I - IV -V progression using different various talked about in the lessons
Lesson 28 : Write your own 4 and 8 bar progressions using any of the chords from the minor or major scale (chord tones)
Lesson 33 : play and sing along with the different variations of “POP” chord progressions
Lesson 38 : Try writing your own melodies using a combination of short and large intervals
Lesson 42 : Listen to songs you like and name the different sections of the song and make your own “song structure chart”

I have done is attached all relevant files for the different classes here. There are a lot of downloadable document to help clarify all of the concepts I am talking about

It works like this...

Whatever number the document starts with corresponds with the class being taught. For example "Terms 3.1" is a document for class #3 (Terms) "3.2 Roman Numerals" is also part of class 3. Hope it's not too confusing and please contact me if you are confused.

Michael Patton

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