At the request of several students, today we will be seeing a rhythmic lesson of Hard Rock!

The chords are Dm F Dm C G Dm, and I am adding some notes to the chords to make it sound more interesting. I hope this lesson will give you some cool ideas if you have a chord progression want to spice it up!

Most people learn the standard power chord type blues riff - A drone note with an alternating 5th and 6th interval on the top. To say the least, after a few years (weeks even) this can get boring! So I wanted to show you how I approach making my own chords from the chord progressions relative modes.

In this part we analyze the chorus and we can listen to the complete song.

Use of secondary 7th chord and modal exchange. The idea is to not think just in one key at the moment of the composition, but to keep an open mind.

Learn to create a melody based on a major chord progression.

5 classic turnarounds!

I start with the simple chord shapes, and then I use the same chords in different variations/voicings. Sometimes I add the 7 4 2 degree so the piece always sounds like its developing, even though I'm using the same chords.

The 7th chord is basically like a normal chord (root, third, fifth), but with the 7th note added. They are mainly used in jazz, but other musical genres can also get a nice flavor adding them in song progressions here and there.