Synthwave Chord Progressions Deep Dive

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In this video I'll do a deep dive into how to create chord progressions for synthwave. We'll use a tool called "chord leading charts" for this.
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@SynthwaveDojo 5 ай бұрын

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@maverick4203 11 ай бұрын

This video made me realize how chords sound more unique with inversions omg thanks.

@SynthwaveDojo 11 ай бұрын

Happy to help. Do let me know what other areas of synthwave production I can help you with.

@newMania23 11 ай бұрын

This is easily one of the best building chord tutorials I have come across. I've watched a lot of your videos now and have really enjoyed them. So much so that I've subbed on two profiles

@SynthwaveDojo 11 ай бұрын

Thanks so much! If you liked that one, you'll love today's "Chord Progressions in Action" and tomorrow's "Progressions Deep Dive #2".

@SynthwaveDojo Жыл бұрын

Looking forward to your questions and comments!

@remka2000 3 ай бұрын

This video is exactly what I needed. Thanks a ton !

@SynthwaveDojo 3 ай бұрын

Glad it helped!

@Prizm1985 11 ай бұрын

I was learning this concept in music theory but it made SO much more sense when you explained it and gave live examples. THANK YOU!

@SynthwaveDojo 11 ай бұрын

You're very welcome! Part 2 will be live-streamed later today 😉

@randomecorner4114 4 ай бұрын

I'm learning the omni chord, this video was extremely helpful!

@SynthwaveDojo 4 ай бұрын

That’s great to hear! Happy to help in any way I can 😊

@Maris_Hvidt Жыл бұрын

Thank you very much for sharing. Happy weekend for you.

@SynthwaveDojo Жыл бұрын

Thanks, you too!

@kuliksingh1616 Жыл бұрын

You are the best teacher ever!!!! Thankyou so much Man

@SynthwaveDojo Жыл бұрын

Wow, thank you!

@mysterienvril 10 ай бұрын

Really awesome tutorial, thank you!

@SynthwaveDojo 10 ай бұрын

You're very welcome!

@andreymoore7371 Жыл бұрын

Thank you, it was very informative!

@SynthwaveDojo Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful! There's quite a few like that in the pipeline. Thanks for watching!

@quantumpoptart 5 ай бұрын

Amazing video

@SynthwaveDojo 5 ай бұрын

I'm glad you found it helpful!

@wolfsdenmusic9404 Жыл бұрын

Love this lesson! Anything involving theory gets my attention. Thank you!

@SynthwaveDojo Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! There's plenty more like this in the pipeline. Anything specific you're eager to know more about?

@wolfsdenmusic9404 11 ай бұрын

@@SynthwaveDojo Sorry...been sitting on the beach in Florida for the past week. :) Chordal theory is something I've been trying to learn more and more about the past year. The biggest sticking point for me is key changes...transitioning back and forth. A lot of times I don't like to stay strictly diatonic, but throw in some changes here and there to make it more interesting. Although, sometimes simple straightforward progressions are exactly what is needed for a song too! Thanks for all your effort with this channel!

@SynthwaveDojo 11 ай бұрын

@@wolfsdenmusic9404 Hey man! To be honest, I'm not a fan of non-diatonic chords in synthwave chord progressions. Modulating key in a different section and coming back to the original is something I find very useful to know. I'll make note of these two topics for future videos. Enjoy your vacation!

@wolfsdenmusic9404 11 ай бұрын

@@SynthwaveDojo Thanks Alonso! Transition to a different key for a section (chorus, bridge, or solo) and then back again is a challenge for me. I've been trying to study up on the subject, but any help from you would be awesome, as you have a way of just cutting straight to the information.

@SynthwaveDojo 11 ай бұрын

@@wolfsdenmusic9404 I'll definitely make something about this soon. Thanks for the suggestion!

@studiooneru7160 7 ай бұрын

АК 79- Great video Alonso, thank you so much!

@SynthwaveDojo 7 ай бұрын

My pleasure!

@ShamaiRogers 6 ай бұрын

thank you

@SynthwaveDojo 6 ай бұрын

You're welcome!

@itsmesiavash 10 ай бұрын

very helpfull ...tnx a lot

@SynthwaveDojo 10 ай бұрын

Glad it helped!

@dannybrazen 11 ай бұрын

Great stuff. It’s super simple as far as music theory is concerned, but synthwave is a very simple genre when you think of classic 80s chords and melodies. I think this will help me personally a lot as I tend to over-complicate things and sometimes you need to remember that simple just sounds better

@SynthwaveDojo 11 ай бұрын

Yes, simple works well. Next week I’ll show how to make some chord progressions using this tool more in a Synthwave context. Thanks for watching!

@dannybrazen 11 ай бұрын

Have you done any videos on modulating to a new chord progression? I.e, you have your “verse” chords, then where to go for a “chorus/break/middle 8” etc? The relative minor is used a lot in 80s music e.g. C major verse drops down to A minor chorus, or vice versa, but I’d like to hear your take on that avenue of structuring a piece

@SynthwaveDojo 11 ай бұрын

That’s a great question. I haven’t done any videos about that but I’ll make note of it and make one soon. Keep up with your comments and suggestions. 👍🏻

@dannybrazen 11 ай бұрын

@@SynthwaveDojo I think “Boys of summer” by Don Henley is an archetypal 80s track (and one of the best of the decade in my opinion). It’s a classic root minor verse, modulating to the relative major for the chorus. Its an unmistakably 80s chord change, and super powerful in terms of song writing. Works great in any genre, but particularly synthwave, as it’s all about the nostalgia factor. Listen to it now and tell me you couldn’t write a killer synthwave track using those chords!

@SynthwaveDojo 11 ай бұрын

OMG you won’t believe this but I’m at the mall and have been humming Boys Of Summer for the past 10 minutes thinking what a wonderful song it is. And then I read your comment. Spooky 👻

@AlexGeek Жыл бұрын

- In school: cheat sheets are bad and you should be punished for using them - In real life: you better use cheat sheets if you want to do anything productive

@SynthwaveDojo Жыл бұрын

Exactly! I'm working on a synthwave producer's composition handbook that'll include many tools like this one. Coming soon! Thanks for watching!

@prodby7anaka 11 ай бұрын

thank for the vid, any chance you can share the document

@SynthwaveDojo 11 ай бұрын

Go to the downloads page and look for the Synthwave Composer Tools. All that I showed is included in there. I'll be making frequent updates to that document so more cool stuff coming very soon. www.synthwavedojo.com/downloads

@FriendlyFirePromo 3 ай бұрын

Это весьма доступно! Тяготения аккордов это интересно! Спасибо

@SynthwaveDojo 3 ай бұрын

пожалуйста

@FriendlyFirePromo 2 ай бұрын

@@SynthwaveDojo Вы знаете, я уже не первый раз захожу на ролик и он действительно прокачал мои навыки в гармонии! Сегодня он опять пригодился! Вы потрясающий!)

@SynthwaveDojo 2 ай бұрын

@@FriendlyFirePromo Я рад помочь, мой друг

@benjaminframe5530 11 ай бұрын

Where can we hear your synthwave tracks?

@SynthwaveDojo 11 ай бұрын

here you'll find plenty soundcloud.com/kipplefactor

@AutPen38 7 ай бұрын

That third chord leading chart (minor) appears to lead to the same results as the first one (major) and seems somewhat irrelevant if not actually wrong. It appears to suggest that if you are in A minor, you're constrained by the "rules" of C major, since it stipulates that you can go anywhere from the III chord (C) but you are limited when you are on the i (A minor). I don't think this is quite true, and following that rule would probably make songs you planned to be in A minor sound more like they had the major feel of C. I think it's truer to say that if you are in A minor, you can go to any other chord in A minor. (This may be a moot point, because the keys of A minor and C major contain the exact same notes and chords. I think, however, that the major or minor "feel" of a progression often comes from where you start or end. A progression isn't going to sound much like A minor if you follow the "rules" of C major).

@SynthwaveDojo 7 ай бұрын

Thanks for the comment!

@real.demesure 2 ай бұрын

Are you for real ? 😂 I learned in 10 min more than I did for years

@SynthwaveDojo 2 ай бұрын

My pleasure! Welcome to the Dojo 🥋💪🏻

@helechotube 7 ай бұрын

first link doesn't work

@SynthwaveDojo 7 ай бұрын

get it here drive.google.com/file/d/1pQzw4ztFM7VuAWsWPhm8l52J2kQS7mX7/view?usp=drive_link

@helechotube 7 ай бұрын

thax :P @@SynthwaveDojo

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@SynthwaveDojo 7 ай бұрын

The whole website is down for the next few days. I’ll bring it back online soon. Thanks for reaching out!

@SynthwaveDojo 7 ай бұрын

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