Hi guys,
I have a friend who's approached me to help her with a few songs she's been working on. She's a helluva singer and has written the lyrics to a couple of songs along with vocal melodies. She's got a natural knack for this so she's doing it on feel and hearing, without any sort of theory guiding her decisions.
She's now asked me to help figure out chords etc to flesh out the songs.
I know just enough theory to be dangerous, so I thought I'd consult the collective wisdom of The Forum.
I've approached it by listening to her vocal melody and tried to map it back to a scale. Once I've gotten a relatively good idea of the scale, and therefore key, I can figure out the chords in that key and go from there trying to find chords the chords that support the melody I'm hearing.
I know that there isn't really a "right" way to do this sort of stuff, but I'm open to any advice you're willing to offer.
In the one song in particular she's doing something in the bridge which is confusing the hell out of me. The melody is using notes outside the scale/key for the rest of the song, so it's obvious she's jumped to a different key. Here is where my theory drops out. It sounds right, so I'm working from the assumption that it's my lack of theory that's giving me uphill and that there must therefore be some sort of explanation for it right? How would I figure out these bridge chords and slot them into the progression?
I have a friend who's approached me to help her with a few songs she's been working on. She's a helluva singer and has written the lyrics to a couple of songs along with vocal melodies. She's got a natural knack for this so she's doing it on feel and hearing, without any sort of theory guiding her decisions.
She's now asked me to help figure out chords etc to flesh out the songs.
I know just enough theory to be dangerous, so I thought I'd consult the collective wisdom of The Forum.
I've approached it by listening to her vocal melody and tried to map it back to a scale. Once I've gotten a relatively good idea of the scale, and therefore key, I can figure out the chords in that key and go from there trying to find chords the chords that support the melody I'm hearing.
I know that there isn't really a "right" way to do this sort of stuff, but I'm open to any advice you're willing to offer.
In the one song in particular she's doing something in the bridge which is confusing the hell out of me. The melody is using notes outside the scale/key for the rest of the song, so it's obvious she's jumped to a different key. Here is where my theory drops out. It sounds right, so I'm working from the assumption that it's my lack of theory that's giving me uphill and that there must therefore be some sort of explanation for it right? How would I figure out these bridge chords and slot them into the progression?