{"id":2310,"date":"2012-02-07T13:34:47","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T18:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/?p=2310"},"modified":"2021-04-14T00:59:13","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T07:59:13","slug":"how-to-write-a-song-in-5-minutes-or-less","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/how-to-write-a-song-in-5-minutes-or-less\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Write A Song In 5 Minutes Or Less"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Usually when I tell my students they can write a song in 5 minutes I get a big eye-roll and a &#8220;yeah right!&#8221; sort of comment.<\/p>\n<p>But the truth is that with a little bit of<a title=\"Guitar Theory Made Useful\" href=\"https:\/\/guitartheorymadeuseful.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> theory <\/a>under your belt, writing music really isn&#8217;t all that complex for the most part. Try this out:<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-plugin-new youtube\" style=\"max-width:100%; width:560px; height:auto; padding-top:0; padding-bottom:0; margin:0 auto;margin:0 auto; border: 0px solid #fff;margin-bottom: 20px;\"><div style=\"width:560px;height:0;  padding-bottom: 56.25%; padding-top:0;\"><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yDJCtz3wta0?wmode=opaque&showinfo=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;controls=1&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;vq=&amp;rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div>\n<p>Now granted, I made that pretty simple, and often that&#8217;s really all there is to it. It can get complex if you want, but most of the greatest songs of all time didn&#8217;t use more than a few chords.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, many songs have the exact same chords as the comedians in this next video will show you (by the way, the 4 chords are I, V, vi, IV which in the key of G are G, D, Emin and C)<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-plugin-new youtube\" style=\"max-width:100%; width:560px; height:auto; padding-top:0; padding-bottom:0; margin:0 auto;margin:0 auto; border: 0px solid #fff;margin-bottom: 20px;\"><div style=\"width:560px;height:0;  padding-bottom: 56.25%; padding-top:0;\"><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QpB_40hYjXU?wmode=opaque&showinfo=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;controls=1&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;vq=&amp;rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div>\n<p>So there you go songwriters &#8211; get out that pen and paper, pick 4 numbers and write the next great classic song!<\/p>\n<p>And if you want to learn more about what Guitar Theory can do for you, check out the <a title=\"Guitar Theory Made Useful\" href=\"https:\/\/guitartheorymadeuseful.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Guitar Theory Made Useful<\/a> DVD course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Usually when I tell my students they can write a song in 5 minutes I get a big eye-roll and a &#8220;yeah right!&#8221; sort of comment. But the truth is that with a little bit of theory under your belt, writing music really isn&#8217;t all that complex for the most part. Try this out: Now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2310"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2310"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8144,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2310\/revisions\/8144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}