How to Create Unique and Catchy Guitar Chord Progressions

How to Create Unique and Catchy Guitar Chord Progressions Sign up successful The blues progression is typically I, IV and V (one, four and five). Almost all of the blues songs that youve ever heard consist of those chords, and many pop and rock songs too. So how do you create a progression thats exciting and fresh? One answer is something called chord leading. Chord Leading Certain chords sound best when theyre followed by certain other chords. Here are some examples of chords that go well together: I  Any chord ii, IV, V, vii0 iii, ii, vi IV, I, V, vii0 V, I vi, ii vii0, I, iii Mix and Match Now, having shown you a list that seems pretty restrictive, let me balance that by telling you that terrific chord progressions have been easily written without the used of this chart and without the use of chord leading at all. I have a much more informal way of create unique and catchy guitar chord progressions. Take the chords I, IV, V and vi. This is sometimes called the Nashville chord progression, while Ive also heard it called the pop chord progression, but its not a progression, its just a set of four chords that are often used to create appealing progressions. Play each one four times; lets say, for right now, that thats four beats in each of our future measures. Go from one chord to another, in no particular order at all. If youre inclined to sing or hum a random melody, even if you wouldnt consider yourself a singer, then I would highly recommend it. It helps the creative process in that it keeps your imagination running. This can help to prevent writers block. Plus, the nature of how the human voice phrases music on its own can help to facilitate the motion or fluidity of this new song. Keep Everything Keep everything that you write. One of my college songwriting professors told me that writing about what you write, not about what you think, sounds best. What you think sounds best may change from day to day. Moreover, sometimes we write bits and pieces of songs and progressions on different days that may only come together on some future day. Unique and catchy guitar chords dont always, or most often, come overnight. They are built like little houses. Just as in building houses, once you start over-analyzing and rearranging too much, the whole thing could start to crumble. A big part of songwriting is being happy about whats been written today and leaving it alone. Theres so much technology out there to record your musical ideas. But for practical purposes, all that you really need is a simple sound recorder on your laptop or tablet. Remember, this is only in order to remember what youve come up with. To quote the film Napoleon Dynamite, Listen to your heart. Thats what I do. Creating anything unique and catchy means looking at what you could contribute artistically and being open and willing to sharing that with the world. Learn more about playing the guitar and making music by taking private lessons with a guitar instructor. Search for a guitar teacher today!   Heather L. teaches singing, piano, acting, and more in St. Augustine, FL, as well as through online lessons. She is  a graduate of the prestigious Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey, and has performed with the New York and Royal Philharmonics, the New Jersey and Virginia Symphonies, the American Boy Choir, and the internationally renowned opera star Andrea Bocelli.  Learn more about Heather here! Interested in Private Lessons? Search thousands of teachers for local and live, online lessons. Sign up for convenient, affordable private lessons today! Search for Your Teacher Photo by  Janne Poikolainen

10 Other Ways to Say Go Away in English - English Lesson via Skype

10 Other Ways to Say Go Away in English - English Lesson via Skype If you have ever wanted to tell someone to go away, this post is for you. Here you will learn 10 other ways to say go away in English.Usually, we use go away when youre busy and someone is annoying you. You can also use it in a joking way.  Just be very very careful how you use some of the expressions below as they might offend and upset people. 10 Other Ways to Say Go Away in English Welcome back to my English lessons. Today were going to give you some more expressions. And what Im going to do today is show you different ways to say one particular expression.The expression that I have for you today is GO AWAYIm going to give you 10 ways in which you can tell people to go away. Well, nine plus go away makes ten.When we say GO AWAY we really want somebody to leave us alone. We want to be on our own, weve got work to do or perhaps we just want to sit in a dark room pull down the shades and fall asleep.Whatever you want to be, whatever you want to do, you want to do it on your own.So here are the ways in which you can express yourself. Some of them will be a little bit colloquial. Some of them will be a little bit more formal. And theres one a little bit rude but Ill explain that one when I get to it. Its still used and some people use in different ways. Some people see it as rude, some people dont. But I mention that when we get to it.So lets start.So first one GET LOSTThis can be a little bit rude depending on how you say it.GET LOST if you get a bit aggressive or have a little bit of an anger in your voice, somebody really knows when you say that you want to be left alone.Or you might just say it in a playful way GET LOST. Just leave me.So GET LOST doesnt mean you want somebody to run away and never be seen again. But youre saying it in such a way is ‘I dont want to see you for the moment so just get lost.’Id want to be on my own so I wont have to see or speak to anybody.Our second option is LEAVE ME ALONELeave me alone. Quite simple LEAVE ME ALONE means I want to be on my  own, I want to be left alone, I like to be on my own, why dont you leave me alone.So any time that we want to be left alone then we just say LEAVE ME ALONE.You can say it with a bit of emphasis because that might sound that youre a little bit angry:Leave me alone, Im tired, I want to go to bedorLeave me alone, I have lots of work to do 10 Other Ways to Say Go Away in English Enjoyed this infographic? Here's what you can do next: Third one is GET AWAYAt the beginning we had go away. So heres slightly similar GET AWAY means I dont want to see you right now, youve really upset me today.Maybe one of the kids is bisbehaving and annoying you.  Get away, go to your room!orGet away! Stop pretending everything is fine!ON YOUR BIKEHeres one of these very informal expressions.When I get on my bike, I want to cycle and just go ahead and enjoy the fresh air.But when we say to somebody ON YOUR BIKE were in a sort of funny way asking them to leave and just go away.On your bike, Ive had enoughI dont want to hear any more, on your bikeJust go away and leave me alone.Another informal expression and this was almost an idiomatic expression is SLING YOUR HOOKSLING YOUR HOOK means leave, go away.When somebody stopped working many many years ago in the shipyards they used to have this big big hook. And they used to use the hook to grab on the bags and carry them away. When they sling their hook they put it over the shoulder in a s ling and they disappear.So TO SLING YOUR HOOK means to stop and just go away.As I said, its a really informal expression. Its an idiomatic phrase and just be careful how you use it.Again youre using it in a joking way:Sling your hook, Ive had enough RUN ALONGThis is something that a parent would definitely say to the child. I dont to be offensive in any way. So the child is under their feet, he/she is in the kitchen when theyre trying to cook. Or he/she’s getting in the way during the holidays.Run along and play with your friends.Run along and take the dog for a walkRun along and get to school, youre going to be late.Another way of saying go away is PUSH OFFHeres when were getting a little bit rude. Push off doesn’t mean to push somebody it means go away. Its very British English.Push off, I want to be on my ownTAKE A HIKEHike is when we go and well put our backpack on and we put our walking boots on and we would go off up the hills or the mountains to get some fresh air. So hiking is really really popular idea.When you ask somebody to take a hike it means you want them to go away for a long time.Just just take a hike and come back in a day or come back in a weekTake a hike, let me get on with this workAnd then finally, this is the one thats a little bit rude that I warned you about is PISS OFFWhen we’re really annoyed with somebody we can say piss off. But be very very careful who you use this with because they might get upset.It is slightly rude and vulgar.Its not the worst thing you can say to them but its not far from it.Piss off and leave me alone, it Ive had enoughJust piss off and take the kids, get out of the houseSo these are 10 other ways to say GO AWAY in English. As I said:go awayget lostleave me aloneget awayon your bikesling your hookrun alongpush offtake a hikepiss offbut be careful how you use it.As always, remember to subscribe to my channel and join me on www.englishlessonviaskype.com and I’ll catch up with you very soon.