Chapter 8
More on harmony
I suggested above a way to create your harmony and chord progression for your song from a standard chord progression.
There is a really cool way to do this with an app, which I’m going to show you here.
I use a tool called Chord! that is available for both Android and iOS. And I use a specific feature of that app: Scales and Scale harmonization.
So what does this app do? It will show all chords that work with the key you wrote your song in without the need to know anything about music theory. It even plays them back to you and shows you different ways to play the chord.
This app has been extremely helpful for me when I’m writing songs on my guitar. And that’s exactly what we need here, right?
I really love this app and there is a free version available. I used it a lot in my songwriting sessions and if you guys find it as useful as I did, give the creator a hand and buy the premium one which has even more features in it.
If you have followed the steps above, chances are that you have a song written by now. The best way to progress on this, add instrumentation and arrange it is to play it together with other musicians.
In my case I met a great keyboarder from Germany on sofasession and worked on this song in a couple of online sessions with him. We came up together with a great arrangement and cool instrumentation. It was a great way to play my song to a professional audience and get their feedback.