I kinda wish I had found your KZfaq videos about thirty years ago.

A 19 minute video that took me 45 minutes to watch, because it's so good that make me take notes. Best channel on youtube about songwriting! Keep the good work! :)

I’ve seen several, if not many, KZfaq guitar tutorials-mostly about jazz-mention secondary dominants. You’re the first person I’ve ever heard mention the relationship of the secondary dominant to the target chord. Thank you! thank you! thank you! They make so much sense now.

another thing about line cliches that's useful is, they don't always have to happen on the minor 6. that's the most common version, like in C major, you'd do the line cliche on A minor, but another Beatles song shows a totally badass line cliche on minor THREE! "and your bird can sing" incorporates a minor line cliche on the minor 3. This is so cool because it then has the extra result of tonicizing the 5. in other words, it momentarily makes B sound like "5," because when the line cliche resolves to the C#major, it sounds like a "2," but it's actually a major 6. This goes up to E, which is the tonic! But in this context it now sounds like 4. only after it goes up to F#m, the 2 of of the original E major, that you reorient yourself in E. "Tonicization" isn't the same as modulating. It doesn't actually change tonal center, it just makes it sound like it. Very cool trick. the Beatles do it often. Anyway, try line cliches in unusual spots. Another example of an unorthodox on is the "james bond" line cliche where you take a minor, and climb the 5th up chromatically, to #5, then to 6, then back down to #5. In They Might Be Giants "birdhouse in your soul," their prechorus uses the james bond line cliche on the minor 6.

Keppie Coutts is absolutely AMAZING !!! This is the best & most helpful channel on songwriting I have found. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you for all you've done for me and soo many others! Please keep em' coming !! 🎸🎶

Great video! You are a great teacher!! I could not stop watching you. Your passion is magnetic and the information is gold. The way you explain is so simple and good. Really thank you!!

Excellent! Stuff I "knew" in the back of my mind but when you explain the mechanics of it, it's like "I could have had a V8!" Thank you.

Really daring, really brilliant lesson. Keep this stuff up. It’s so juicy. Well done.

I'm having a great time watching you here. I really like the way you speak, you seem to be excited about the subject all the time. it is the opposite of being boring!

This was really insightful. Appreciate when someone pulls away the veil and let’s us all in on the trick.

I recently found your channel and I want to say thank you for delivering gold in every video! I feel called to songwriting, and although the tips in this particular video is too complex for me to understand right now, I know I’ll circle back to it someday when being more experienced! You’re a life saver and I appreciate how you give such detailed advice 🫶

I've been a songwriter for my entire life, I wrote several songs through the years, but I discovered your channel now and I learned a lot, so I just loved it. Thank you! I'll be following your channel from now on!!! Cheers!

You’re such a loving and caring teacher! Thank you! I’m a fan.

Been 'away' from the guitar for so long since my slightly older friend, and teacher [sic] and me moved on about 1976 time. He was a quick and competent learner and in turn thrived off an older family and cultural connection to many and varied instruments and how important music was. He was inspirational in the way he unlocked the inspirational - you'll know what I mean cos you do that! You are a natural, enthusiastic teacher even surpassing my encyclopedic childhood friend-I had other goals to supersede my musical 'education' (I think even my own musical family connection thereby eschewed it me, perhaps given as they thought of its possible corrosive influence on me in that pursuit), and that full, oftentimes stressful, career in the healing profession has yet confirmed how much music feeds us and our souls. Please keep up the inspirational work. Yours, A child of the music of B Wilson, Donovan, Mitchell, McCartney, Motown, Bolan, Richards, Simon, Clapton and Bowie, and many many others through to most recently (thanks to remastering) Elman (Mischa)-getting old? 😇😎

Thank you so much for putting all this on KZfaq. I've been watching hours of your very helpful info over the last week or so! I'm so glad you came into my algorithm! :)

I make music since more than 30 years and that was the most important lesson I ever had. I knew the key changes of the Beatles but never realised that system with that magic chord. Thank you so much.

The C7 is also a secondary dominant in Something. V of IV. So not only do you get the line cliche continuing into the next chord--C to B to A# to A (the third of F major), but you have a dominant cadence. All of which combines to make it a super satisfying movement

Wonderful examples and explanations. I much appreciate your enthusiasm and the joy in your own learning and involvement in music. THANKS!

I have never written my own Songs… but after discovering this outstanding teacher/ site, I must give a try! I came across this because I was delving into George Harrison‘s music… He is one of my all-time favorites, and this lesson not only explains how to write songs in a beautiful manner, it helps me to understand the songs I love so much, and therefore helps me to understand how to play Guitar with more FEEL! Thank you for this great look at song writing and theory!

This is absolutely brilliant Keppie. Loved it. So well put together!

This is so good. I've been writing songs for a long time and I learned a lot just from these simple tricks. You are really good at explaining.

Great how you explain complicated chord progressions in an understandable way. Thank you so much!

You’re amazing! Thank you for all these videos, and your personality in presenting 💙

What a tremendously useful video. Very articulate and easy to follow. This one is definitely getting bookmarked and it’s concepts applied to my own compositions. Thank you for sharing

Just fantastic information, thank you. Enough information right here to keep one busy for months trying new things. You also sing wonderfully I love your tone. Cheers.

Amazing! Thank you, subscribed! It's great! All of it - the info, the presentation, the way you play it on the guitar, the choice of songs and the group! I love it all!

Thank you for making understanding these concepts easy! Wonderful!

i have really enjoyed your "enlightening" technique to teaching musical concepts, it's broken down so well that it is neither codescending or mind bogglingly brain numbing. Thank you.

Just some super chord structure ideas here! I have found gold here before as well. Thanks for a great channel! Also, I really love your voice, it's really cool and gutsy! ☺️

This is fantastic, thanks for your time doing the video, wonderful!

I agree with others who have posted.This is one of the best channels on youtube. The material you post and the way you articulate it is fantastic.

What a great lesson. I'm not at all interested in writing music... But I'm absolutely interested in understanding music. These lessons work just as well for me. Love your enthusiasm, clear and concise examples... and, I love your voice. Thanks so much.

Wow!!! That's how to create an instructional video and make it so easy to understand and so super-inspirational too! Thank you so much for sharing.

This is so good. Absolutely brilliant, very clear and concise.

You should have more subs! Probably the most useful and digestable info I've ever found crammed into such a short space of time! Thanks very much for your work here.

You Girl are absolutely Awesome. I am 56 and dove back in to theory about 7 years ago when I started playing again. I cant tell you how your channel helps. Just Fantastic!!!

She's taken my songwriting to the next level. Thank you so much!

Great episode, I’ve been doing most of these without knowing what I was doing, especially the major cliche, and recently I’ve been playing Gmaj key a lot and have been dropping in the Fmajor… that I can now call the magic chord, awesome! many thanks it’s enlightening!

fantastic. This is incredibly insightful. Thank you!

gold for this self taught musician 😊 Thanks & regards

Very helpful tutorial and excellent video production , articulate and with a very solid understanding of harmony. Great work!

This is great, it helps me understand so much!

this was fabulous and the best explanation ive heard on you tube!

This is an awesome video. (like all your videos) I have always knows these tricks and have taught them in songwriting, and now I know what to call them!!

Wonderful expression of theories ! Thanks alot! ( Beautiful voice as well 😊)

Love your style. Thank you for making life a little easier.

One thing you didn't mention is that the descending chromaticism continues into the F chord. While it may not be part of the "line cliche" in the strictest sense because several other notes in the chord change, you still have a satisfying descent from the B flat of the C7 chord to the A in the F major chord. There are a few songs I can think of that even take this progression a step farther by going to the minor version of the iv chord (in this case, it would be F minor) followed by the V chord for a turnaround. In C, this would give you a descending C, B, B flat, A, A flat, G motion.

Wonderful lesson and how it was presented in this video is top notch!

Thanks for the music lesson. Just deep enough to tap creativity without paralysis from analysis.

Great lesson, and very interesting...thank you!!!!

Amazing explanations!

You know you're the first person on line I've seen who knows your stuff, says it straight and you're fun!!!

I have been writing songs for many years and trying to understand the process to improve my tunes. There is always more to learn, and this is a great place for it. Cheers!

I wrote a song that had that magic chord but I didn't know why it sounded so good until this video. Thanks to your explanation, I will hopefully be able to summon that magic whenever needed.

You are so good appreciate every minute thank you and Merry Christmas

Great video. I love watching breakdowns of chord progressions, I wish more youtuber did this

Great voice and clear lesson. Thx

Really brilliantly articulated. Thank you!

Great walkthrough. Probably the cleanest explanation of how to change keys that I’ve heard

Great presentation and you have a BEAUTIFUL voice.

I watch a lot of guitar instruction but this lesson is so very good. Thank you!!!

your channel is absolute gold!

Superb lesson! I’m going back to some of my songs that aren’t quite “doing it” for me, and try these ideas. Thank you so much, you have a great channel.

Excellent teaching, thanks.

Thank you 😊 love your work ♥️ and a beautiful voice 🌟

For 30 yrs I have played "something" in C Major open position --Then C7 etc --did not know the 3 rd fret C /C7/CMaj 7 -----sounded so good -thankyou

Another newbie to your channel. Besides your expertise in music theory etc., you have an awesome voice.

Great lesson. Absolutely love this.

Excellent, many thanks!

I learned more here than I have in years. Thanks for the breakdown. Your awesome.

Great information! Thanks sooo much for sharing this!

You explained this so well. Thx!

always so very informative and helpful

I’ve just found your channel and although I don’t intend to write any songs I am a George Harrison fan and do play the guitar some. What I enjoyed most is the sound of your singing voice.

Great compositional ideas. The 2 chord secondary dominant has a lot of sauce in it when moving to the tonic dominant. It has the 4th and the 5th and that nice little leading tone.

great video! Definitely going to use these

Great channel guys, learn loads

Wonderful & your performance was outstanding. Thank you

Well done . Such a concise and well presented lesson , kept me focused right to the end. ❤ now a subscriber...

Great tips! Thanks very much Keppie.

This is the first video I've seen of yours and it was wonderful. The information and delivery gave me a skylight from my underground theory bunker... Yes, Here comes the Sun... 🌞

I have played that in first position since the 70's. Cool falling down concept

Thank you for this excellent lesson!

I believe music theory and over analyzing it interferes with emotional creativity. Thanks for sharing!

My favourite line cliche that got me into it was "If" by Bread. It's a beautiful sequence throughout the entire verse structure. I took that lesson and wrote a song of my own actually two.... and it's been valuable!

One of the most interesting and unusual songs using descending chromatic notes, is "Magdelena" by Danny O'Keefe (1973) it starts on Gmaj7 , G7 ,G6 , Gaug 5th. I havent yet seen that chord run anywhere else. It's a Brilliant song too! Another interesting song using chromatic Scales is "This Summer" by Squeeze (1995) . Thankyou for this interesting post, Gary. 👦👍🎶

4:12 is how "everybody's talkin at me" starts. great song.

Beautiful voice and interpretation singing Something

Wonderful lesson! Thank you.

True inspiration, born of a musical gift, is where great songs come from. This and this only. There are no 'tricks'.

You are something else. Thank you. ❤

I've started 5 different songs and I'm stuck in various places in every single one. I'm going to try to use the concepts in this video to complete all of them this week! Thank you!!!!

Thank you so much! You’re a great teacher I learned a lot in this vid

Excellent lesson

Excellent...thanks for sharing! From the U.S. !!

Great work, mate. Many thanks.

Very nice. Thank you!

You. Are. Amazing. Thank you!

Extremely helpful. Thank you.

Fascinating! Thanks for sharing 🤗😊