I was lucky enough to write, a song with Scott Harris who wrote a lot of the, Sean Mendez stuff. And he was a big fat, a big fan of just taking some cause act, repeating chord, you know. so  for example, just stay on the a minor  for a bit longer.
Gives you a whole different rich shapes, a whole different vibe. here we go again. Totally different. Feel  a minor again,  different feel.
 This one is really successful. This is basically, I’m not gonna really get involved in inversions in the chords today ’cause I wanna keep it really simple. And also if we haven’t got much time, so, but this is basically taking a c chord,  then playing it again, but with the e in the base  and then an F  and then a G  and you might recognize it. I go  Ed Sheeran, really likes that chord sequence.
also Van Morrison loves that  as well.  And I would say that Marvin Gaye might have used it in a couple songs as well. oh, next slide. How about taking a quarter, two away?
 Sometimes less is more.  I think that’s the undertones, teenage kicks verse right there.  It leaves the other two chords for late in the song, which is good.  This is, I’ve been writing a lot of the new article called Jasmine Jet, who is a big fan of Fleet Mac.  And they use this trick in dreams, which is just basically just keep repeating  f and g  in the verses, for example.
And then you can open out into the choruses and to use U words  C and G  or CNF as well.  Just sticks those two chords and it gives you somewhere else to go. And, G and FI  Think that’s Jean Jean isn’t  it?
or pumped on your stereo by Supergrass.  Okay.  One of the things about using less chords in your verses in particular  means you can save some of those amazing,  like the chord that you really need for the chorus. if you imagine a fleet with maxim going around here in the verse  and you’re building up this tension  When if you start the chorus on the A minor,  it sounds like, oh my goodness, that’s the biggest explosion  of a chorus of all time.
Or if you start the chorus on the C the reason they feel really big  is that in the QC, it feels like the home chord. It feels like you’ve arrived somewhere as a listener. So that’s a top tip. if you’re feeling like your chorus isn’t taking off, perhaps you need to take some chords out of your verse.
 Okay, now we’re gonna get away from the four chords that we’ve talked about so far. The four big chords, CA minor  F and g. I’m going into slightly more uncharted territory. I hope that’s cool with everybody.  So  this is basically like a substitution, which means that  instead of using one of the predictable chords that we’re expecting, we swap it for a less  predictable chord.
Hopefully that’s also easy to write over. Â So we’ve got CD Minor, a minor, Â halo by Beyonce uses that, that chord secrets really successfully. this one is C Â wet, wet, wet.
love is all around. show me Heaven Marie McKee, like it’s got. is that also back  for good by take that? I think it might be back. Okay. And this one  I love this one. CE Minor  just has a different feel than the traditional four chord things that we know so well.
 Okay, so  next one  is  c, b minor fg,  yet another slightly different emotional feel.
C,  CE, minor  FG, I thought, as it is my  masterclass, I could put in a few of the ones that I really like to tinkle around on, on the piano or on the guitar.
 I write both on guitar and piano. I’d say most of the, the Gabrielle Gabrielle Aplin song was written on guitar, the Leona song  I wrote on piano. And so it was the little mix song that was written on  piano as well. just a a  if you only play one instrument and you want to learn another, it is really good for your songwriting muscles, I think.
you also discover some new chords and all chords sound different on every instrument as well in different inversions in different places.  And the c sounds different there than it does there, than it does there. So  it’s all about,  you know, the, the instrument you use as well as the chords. So here’s a few of the ones that I really like. This is a minor  GD  There was a really famous song a long time ago that, called Wicked Game by a writer called Chris Isaac, which had those,  those haunting chords and they’ve always made me feel really inspired.
