From the course: The Songwriter's Toolkit: New Perspectives
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Changing the harmonic rhythm - Sibelius Tutorial
From the course: The Songwriter's Toolkit: New Perspectives
Changing the harmonic rhythm
- [Instructor] Another great way to use chords to establish a section change is to change the harmonic rhythm of your progression. There are countless amazing songs written around a quarter loop. Listen to Bob Dylan's All Along the Watchtower, Cold Play's Clocks and Ben E. King's Stand by Me, all of them establish a chord progression and then repeat it for the entire song. While writing around a quarter loop is perfectly fine, it can be tricky to keep it interesting for the length of a song. One cool way to shake things up with songs written around a single chord progression, or any song for that matter, is by playing with the harmonic rhythm of the progression. I discuss harmonic rhythm in great detail in my Songwriting Techniques with Chord's course. Harmonic Rhythm is simply the rate at which the chords of a song change. Just like melody has rhythm, so do chords. And not only can you play with the rhythm of chords to spice up your song, you can use them to establish the different…
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