Dale's Songwriting Video. Part 2

I like that Jimi style bit, I've been writeing an accoustic song since the last vid. and I like lots of open strings like that Jeff Buckley guy, pretty cool stuff.

i'm not sure but i don't think john frusciante wrote "my friends" i think dave navarro did. didn't he?

interesting stuff, even if the last bit did sound like the backing to the Zelda Theme

jAzZMataZz wrote: i'm not sure but i don't think john frusciante wrote "my friends" i think dave navarro did. didn't he?

Yeah, I dropped the ball on that one--I was kind of ad-libbing my wording... I realized later that night, after filming this, that I said the wrong song :-( I meant to say "Scar Tissue." I felt so lame :-( But thanks for noticing... I LOVE both those guys.... Later!

Dale

Pretty cool vid. Really liked the Jimi portion you did. What scales/mode is this chord progression based off of? Really liked the licks you had between chords, very Jimi. Props, keep the vids coming.

Great video.

great vid Dale. Like everyone else i loved the jimi section. Noticed you finger some of ur chords unusually.

That was cool, but this lesson would be even better with a tab

that was very helpful. Often I'll learn new chords and maybe put em into a progression, but i couldn't seem to make them sound musical. This helped me a lot

Great! Just what a newbie guitar player like me needs!

uh pretty poor example of Buckley.

Good lesson! Some other guys that use pretty unique voicings and fingering techniques are Antoine Dufour, Andy McKee, Don Ross, and Michael Hedges.

damn, music actually isn't an exact science, you douche...
go play with your penis or something!

mray wrote: great vid Dale. Like everyone else i loved the jimi section. Noticed you finger some of ur chords unusually.

Glad you enjoyed it, mray! I didn't expect so many people would dig the Jimi attempt, but I'm TOTALLY glad--he's king!!! (Well, one of them....)

And I wonder what chords I fingered weirdly.... I see I "barred" something with my pinky once... and some "thumb" fretting stuff... I'm bassackwards!

Take care,
Dale

Shuk wrote: Good lesson! Some other guys that use pretty unique voicings and fingering techniques are Antoine Dufour, Andy McKee, Don Ross, and Michael Hedges.

Thanks for the tip!!! I'm aware of most of those guys, but not Dufour and Ross. I will investigate!! Cool :

Have a rad weekend,
Dale

Night_Lights wrote: that was very helpful. Often I'll learn new chords and maybe put em into a progression, but i couldn't seem to make them sound musical. This helped me a lot

I'm glad Night Lights! Learn as many ways to mess with different versions of the same basic chords, and you'll have a lot more variety in your songwriting. At least I know it helps me. Keep rawkin'!!!

See ya,
Dale

RocknEf'inRoll wrote: Pretty cool vid. Really liked the Jimi portion you did. What scales/mode is this chord progression based off of? Really liked the licks you had between chords, very Jimi. Props, keep the vids coming.

Rockin'F! Each one of those fills is a doublestop thing yanked out of the following scales, changing with each chord:

C
C maj Pent (C-D-E-G-A) w/sus4 (F)

G/B
G maj Pent (G-A-B-D-E) w/sus4 (C)

C7/Bb

C Mixo Pent (C-D-E-G-Bb)

F/A
F maj Pent (F-G-A-C-D)

Fm/Ab
F min Pent (F-Ab-Bb-C-Eb)

C/G
C maj Pent (C-D-E-G-A)

G
G maj Pent (G-A-B-D-E) w/sus4 (C)

Hope that helps!!! On my INTIMATE AUDIO web site, I have a (totally free) lessons page that breaks some of that stuff down, FYI.

Later!
Dale

that was really impressive! it kind of opened a door for me xD
i will definately practise theses techniques more often!
thanks a lot and greetings from germany!

love frusciante n jimi styles.. I'm inspired now... =) thanks for this huge lesson, you should put up some more stuff. =P
Rock on

awesome! Thanks again Dale, keep them vids coming!!

Dude, awesome video's.
I really liked the Jimi-like lick
Overall very helpful stuff man, thx! You might have just saved some kids from mindless 3-chorded songs! :p

Really good stuff. Any chance the tab or chords for the lesson could get posted? There were some really interesting chords in there....what were they??? Need to know.

Awsome, these lessons helped a lot more than any others i could find on this topic. I've already begun working on a song with this method of writing. THANK YOU!

Hey dale can maybe write down how you play the chords when you play the open chords ? Say I want to play a C open chord ?

great video(s)! wish i knew more theory so i could fully understand everything you explained. cheers!

i want kole back
i need to learn how to write lyrics

Could you post tabs of what your playing?
Thanks

Great videos Dale. Interesting material and very nice of you taking the time to help us out. I never really tried songwriting because i had no idea what i was doing so this video is a big help to get me going. Thanks again bro.

I can't figure it out, what chords are you using for the last version (the more punk rock sounding one)? You say you're using 2-note chords which implys power chords, but they're obviously have something else to em. It sounds like some inversions, but I don't know. Any chance of telling me the notes you're playing for just that part?

Great vids Dale. Some cool stuff there. Thanks man.

Sounds like Tears in Heaven as soon as that first chord progression was shown.

Do you know where I can start off learning about this stuff? To be honest, I know the chords, and if I played around I could make some cool stuff like anyone else, but I don't know why it's happening. I saw you trying to explaining, but it's still beyond my understanding.

Soring wrote: damn, music actually isn't an exact science, you douche... go play with your penis or something!

Nor did anyone claim it to be.

The Jimi Hendrix part was awesome, I'm gonna have to have my guitar teacher teach me how to play that kind of style.

great lesson though im having trouble picking up on the barre chords. if i could get some kind of explanation to how G/B chords. etc are shaped that would help alot.
thanks.

REALLY would have liked some tab..

Jimi Hendrix, Amazing, Self-Taught Left handed guitarist. The Hendrix part was My Favorite, That should be tabbed and posted.

Great work.
=P

you're a genius man. very nice lesson.

dude you are awesome. record something, grow some hair, and get signed already so I can buy your CD.

jAzZMataZz wrote: i'm not sure but i don't think john frusciante wrote "my friends" i think dave navarro did. didn't he?

Yea, I think Dave played guitar on that album, One hot minute, while John was in rehab. But its likely that John wrote the song though, cause it sound more like Johns earlier stuff than Daves.

ok lesson
very cool jimi thing you did but the frusiante was not that good.

Dale Turner wrote: Yeah, I dropped the bat. Dale

Wow. you just totally opened up a new door in my song writing... thanks.