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- Alex8719th October 2008
  Nice lesson David. Radiohead has always been very interesting
- Nazgul19th October 2008
  Very nice, David! Radiohead is cool!
- kaznie_NL19th October 2008
  Two davids... that's quit cool Now you can make twice as much lessons
  
  Thnx David!
- Muris Varajic19th October 2008
  Sounds great!
- Fran19th October 2008
  Really nice melody David
- Emir Hot19th October 2008
  Great melody David
- Bogdan Radovic19th October 2008
  Very nice lesson David ! You captured the Radiohead vibe very well!
- Pedja Simovic19th October 2008
  Very nice David!
- ItsMe19th October 2008
  Great lesson
- CyanideChris19th October 2008
  Cool lesson, are you using your Mark IV for the chorus clean chording?
  The sound reminds me of Dream Theater's chorusey clean sound in Images and Words and Awake which I love btw.
- Stevie-Ray-Vaughn19th October 2008
  How do you make it so theres 2 videos at once? I'd like to know
- Piotr Kaczor19th October 2008
  Beautiful melody and sound!
- chmilew19th October 2008
  Briliant David, very well done
- Ivan Milenkovic19th October 2008
  Very interesting David, good job
- TakeJoy20th October 2008
  Great lesson David, thanks.
- Eat-Sleep-andJam20th October 2008
  Simply Great |
- Lian Gerbino20th October 2008
  this in the style of is really great David!
- Nadir20th October 2008
  Great. Radiohead is very special band.
- Toni Suominen20th October 2008
  Great lesson David!
- Alejandro Pinero20th October 2008
  Beautiful song!!
- Gabriel Leopardi21st October 2008
  Nice composition! I don't know why but this tune also reminds me to Pink floyd.
- Marcus Siepen22nd October 2008
  great lesson David
- David Wallimann29th October 2008
  Thanks a lot everyone. Glad you like it!
  CyanideChris, I didn't use the Mark IV here, just my GT8 direct into the soundcard...
- Emilio Perez30th November 2008
  Beautiful song, David.

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- Tags: Radiohead, Composing, Chords, Melodic, Arpeggio
In this lesson, I'll answer one of your request and discuss one of the most melodic bands in today's music: Radiohead.

For this lesson, I decided to focus more on how you can create some ambient chord progression in the style of that band. To do so, we'll try to avoid over thinking about theory and scales to just play what your inner ear tells you to. There are no real rules here but common sense.

A few things to keep in mind while composing are to stick to simple melodies that you can remember and and try to use common notes. What I mean by that is that when playing two consecutive chords, try to see if you can keep some common notes in those two chords. Repetition is key to beautiful musical pieces.

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