It’s part of “The Essential Secrets of Songwriting” 10-eBook Bundle. Have a great melody, but stuck at the “how to add chords to it” stage? “How To Harmonize a Melody” shows you, step-by-step and with sound samples, how it’s done, with suggestions for chord substitutions that might work as well. Try upward leaps, like near the beginning of the chorus of “Somebody That I Used to Know” (Gotye), and downward leaps, like at the beginning of “Man In the Mirror” (Glen Ballard, Siedah Garrett) You’ll find that sadness and hopefulness can be great partners in a song. The strange thing is that a large melodic leap can convey a sense of hopefulness - a kind of “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” effect. Sometimes all it takes to convey a darker mood is to slow everything down. But if you take a major progression and place a minor chord at the beginning of it (particularly on a repeat of the progression), you’ll convey a more introspective “sad” quality. Songs in a minor key don’t necessarily sound sad, despite what you may have assumed.
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