Song Challenge: Key Changes (Patreon)
Published:
2015-09-23 21:11:45
Imported:
2022-05
Content
"Nothing Was Your Fault" from Cosmos started with a simple drum beat (which it still opens with, in exactly the same form it had when I first put it down). As I started to play with adding chords though I gave myself the challenge of trying to come up with more unusual progressions. This led to a lot of modulation and eventually the decision that it should never rest in one key for more than three chords in a row. There was a lot of back and forth between coming up with the melodies and coming up with the chords that would go beneath them, which is not the way I normally work (usually it's one and then the other) but I'm quite pleased with the results. Hope you enjoy this, and if you want to play along, I put a ton of extra editing into getting all the chord names and piano fingerings on screen!
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