The purpose of Songwright isn’t to teach all the basics of what scales and chords are and how to fit them together. My aim with the podcast is to share ideas you can use in songwriting, not to provide an entire music education.

Anyway, why should I try when others have put so much effort into doing it already? Here are two useful links that cover some of the basics:

http://www.chordmaps.com – a useful site for learning about the chords in the major scale and some standard ways of fitting them together.

http://www.musictheory.net/ – A bit more comprehensive and advanced than chordmaps.com, this site has some great flash lessons with sound and everything.

One useful little feature from chordmaps.com is the picture below. If you can’t think which chord to use next, try following the arrows.

- Tom

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