Songwriting Techniques – mDecks Music

Name: Songwriting Techniques
Uploaded: 2022-04-25
Description: Practical songwriting lesson on harmonic techniques—substitutions, extensions, bass motion, secondary dominants, and modal borrowing—applied to evolve a simple IV–V–I progression.

Published: 2022-04-25

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Practical songwriting lesson on harmonic techniques—substitutions, extensions, bass motion, secondary dominants, and modal borrowing—applied to evolve a simple IV–V–I progression.

Learn actionable harmonic tools to develop and re-harmonize songs: diatonic substitutions, seventh and ninth extensions, sus and slash chords, inversion/bass strategies, 2–5 targeting, secondary dominants, and modal borrowing. The lesson uses a step-by-step applied example (in G) that expands a basic four-bar IV–V–I into varied eight-bar iterations and an outro, showing how to consider targets and bass motion. Ideal for songwriters wanting concrete techniques to fight writer’s block, add color, and create clear harmonic pathways. Includes guidance on choosing extensions by chord–scale pairing and practical voicing/inversion ideas.

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