How to Borrow Chords From the Minor Key Step By Step
This is a really awesome topic for beginner songwriters to get into for spicing up chord progressions. However, it is going to require that you understand Roman Numeral Analysis and Major and Minor scales. Here’s a post on Roman Numeral Analysis Explained Simply if you…
How to Find the “Right” Chords for Your Song Every Time
Ah, the plague of every songwriter. How do you find the right chords for a song with so many options? How do you make emotive chord progressions that pull at your heartstrings and take you on a ride from start to finish? How do you…
How Do Chord Inversions Work in Songwriting?
So you’re writing songs and trying to figure out chord progressions and you came across the topic of chord inversions and want to know how they are used in songwriting. Let me start by saying that although it might sound like a complicated topic it…
How to Choose Scales for Improvisation
Improvisation is a whole world in and of itself and it can get really complicated. In this article I’d like to keep things simple and just give you some tips to pick scales to use over chords and chord progressions. This will help with your…
Easy Hacks for Finding a Song’s Key
As a songwriter and musician, there are some situations you will run into where you will want to know what the key of a song is. One of these might be that you wrote a song entirely by ear and now you’re editing it to…
How to Write a Mixolydian Rock Song
Let’s talk about the Mixolydian mode and how to use it to write a song that has its unique sound. Like all modes it has a certain level of brightness or darkness compared to other scales. This is one of the brighter sounding modes, although…
Writing Songs that Soar Using the Lydian Mode
This is a mode that is great to get a feeling of floating in your songs since it has a floating, ethereal and epic type of sound. This mode is said to be brighter than the Major scale. In a way it sounds a bit…
Crafting Darker Songs with the Phrygian Mode
If you think of all the modes as having different levels of darkness and brightness, Phrygian is one one the darkest, second only to Locrian (which sounds downright disturbing lol). Because it sounds so dark it’s often found in genre’s like Metal and Rock but…
How to Write a Captivating Song in Dorian Mode
Many songwriters look for ways to make their songs sound more captivating, and one of the most popular ways is to create songs that are based on specific modes. You may have heard about modes and might have an understanding that it is a scale….
Roman Numeral Analysis Explained Simply
Let’s say you are the Batman of songwriting. You have all the moves. Your chords, scales, pentatonics, knowing how to write melodies, etc are your kicks, punches, chokeholds, grapples, etc. Another huge tool in your belt must be to be able to do Roman Numeral…
Categories
- Event Reviews (1)
- Gear (4)
- Music Theory (19)
- Production (2)
- Song Analysis (5)
- Songwriting Tips (35)
Audiospring Music is a Youtube Channel and Blog dedicated to helping musicians become better, more creative songwriters.