A Short Chord Story
Bring more colour, movement and variety to your music. Learn how to choose chords for a melody, develop progressions and shape tension and resolution with a clearer understanding of how chords work.
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Overview
About this PDF
Understanding Advanced Chords is a 73-page visual guide for composers, producers and musicians who want to expand their chord vocabulary and make more informed choices in their music.
From basic triads to extended and altered chords, it explains how chords are constructed, what gives them their character and how they work together in a progression.
Use it to:
• Find chord options for your melodies. Understand how a melody note’s role and musical context can guide your choice of harmony.
• Give familiar progressions a different character. Explore how extensions, alterations and substitutions change their colour, and understand what each change brings to the music.
• Create movement within and between chords. Use inversions, bass movement, passing diminished chords and line clichés to give your harmony a sense of direction.
• Shape tension and resolution. See which notes create tension, where they can resolve and how those movements affect the character of a chord change.
• Explore a wider range of harmonic colours. Discover characteristic chord movements from different modes, alternative ways of returning to the home chord and the possibilities within harmonic minor.
• Make sense of unfamiliar chord symbols. Understand the logic behind their names so you can work out their notes and try them in your own music.
Colour-coded keyboard diagrams, chord formulas and progression examples help you connect the theory to practical musical choices. Short exercises with worked answers let you check your understanding along the way.
Work through it to strengthen your understanding of harmony, and keep it as a reference when composing, producing, arranging or practising.
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Nitin Dubey has composed music for TV ads and feature films from his studio in Mumbai since 2012, for brands like Cadbury, Lay's, Honda and Lux. His courses take apart songs you know and his own projects to show how theory becomes finished music.
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