My Creative process for my guitar parts

Hey everyone! So today, I’m going to share with you all how I make up the guitar parts that I use in my songs. 

Let’s talk about it. 

My creative guitar parts

So what happens is that to me, because I have such extensive guitar practice, I actually find it easy to create guitar parts for songs. 

To me, it’s actually quite simple trying to put together a guitar chord pattern or even a solo or intro. 

It’s a matter of choosing the right chords and selecting the right key for your solos. 

But let’s talk about that, choosing the right chords for a second. 

Let’s talk about how to form your own Chord progressions

I could teach you how to form your own Chord progressions, BUT….

So, there are lessons on how to choose the right chords and I’ll teach them to you right here, but the lessons revolve around similar patterns that are used all throughout music. 

So like, I could teach you these lessons but in reality, they’re going to revolve around a set guideline that’s going to fall back on “cookie cutter” guitar patterns. 

So, I’m going to show you guys a cheat sheet first, and then I’ll teach you guys the lesson in Chord selection

1. I-IV-V
2. I-V-IV-V
3. I-V-vi-IV
4. I-IV-vi-V
5. I-iii-IV-V
6. I-vi-VI-V
7. I-ii-I-ii
8. I-V-I-V
9. I-IV-V-IV
10. vi-I-IV-V

Those are the ones that I can think off the top of my head. 

So what those are, those are some of the most popular Chord progressions that are used in modern pop music. 

Pop here means all music that’s in mainstream circulation. 

So all music that’s in Rap, Pop, Rock, Country, Hip-hop.

I highly suggest that you look at these chord progressions and start making hit songs from them. 

Do your research on each Chord progression and see which one you like the best. 

I’ll give you a big hint. Number 3 is written by A lot of musicians in the industry. 

A LOT. 

But like I said, Here are the lessons on how to form a Chord progression. 

1. Start on the I or the one chord. 
2. The one Chord goes great next to the V or five chord. (These are roman numerals if you haven’t figured it out. 
3. After a leap (which is a V or above) go back down
4. Chords that sound different sound great next to each other, which is why the IV and V Chord sound great next to each other a lot. 
5. Also, Chords that sound similar can sound great if played correctly. 
6. For pop music, usually between 2 and 4 Chords is all you need to make a song sound great. 
7. Keep it simple and don’t overcomplicate the chord progression by trying to include a whole bunch of things that don’t make sense. 
8. Mix up the amount of Minor and Major Chords you have for a sweet sounding guitar chord progression.  (I think this sounds very inspirational)
9. Major Chords sound happy, minor Chords sound sad. 
10. In the above example there were a few chord progressions that had nothing but major chords, that is a really happy song that you’re making if you use those chord progressions
11. Be careful when starting on anything other than the one, Chords in a key will naturally gravitate towards the 1 Chord.

That’s all that I got for today. I’m pretty sure that there are other things that you could probably learn. But honestly that kind of practice comes from playing a whole bunch of different songs. 

Anyways, hope you guys liked my lesson. 

I should also mention that it’s actually impossible to copyright a Chord progression.

So don’t worry about sounding a lot like your favorite artist in the chords because every other artist is doing the exact same thing. 

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