 Hi guys, this is Jason here from Nathaniel school and in this lesson I I'm gonna talk about how you can make chord sound a little bit more interesting a little bit more mysterious and also a little bit more Useful for composing Film music or soundtracks for movies and that sort of stuff if you want to make things sound more epic So I have two tricks or two Things which I myself do which I wanted to share with you all The first thing is to understand the major scale if you understand any major scale Seven triads come out of it and we use all these seven triads almost all the time when we are making songs Whether it's a pop song rock song or blues or any genre we take the major scale It has seven chords of which three are major three are minor one is diminished So if you take the D major scale, you will have D major being the one major E minor being the two minor F sharp minor being the three minor G major being the four major a major being the five major P minor being the six minor C sharp diminished being the seven diminished Right, so this plan sort of allows you to make a lot of the commonly used Chord progressions out there for example, maybe a one five six four There are a lot of pop songs which are on this All the way from the Beatles like When I find myself in times of trouble mother Mary comes to me and so on Or even maroon five songs you will find it From for a lot of years You'll also have things like the two five one progressions which are used in jazz and some pop music as well Those progressions also tend to come from the major scale And then blues musicians do a lot with one four and five So ultimately a lot of the chord progressions We make come from the major scale because of how popular it is and also because of how awesome it sounds It's it's a brilliant scale. It gives some great harmony But the only issue is that it it can tend to start sounding very Redundant and it may sound like the last song you heard or it may sound like the last song you even made You know, so a good way to maybe break out of that Situation is to consider these these two tricks, which I have the first thing is Whenever you're composing a song using a major scale We use the one chord the four chord and the five chord very very often, right? So if you take knocking on heaven's door for example Knock knock knocking on heaven's door and so on that's nothing but a one five and four and all these are major chords If you take La Bamba That's nothing but a one four and a five or maybe the lion sleeps tonight in the jungle the mighty jungle the lion sleeps tonight That's nothing but a D. That's nothing but a one four one five So a lot of songs have major chords and then they'll squeeze in a minor here and here and there So what you could do is instead of playing the one major and the four major You can do different permutations Or you can do a one major and a four minor perhaps or you can do a one minor and a four major Or you can do a One minor and four minor is already heard because that's a minor sound minor scale sound One major and four major is already heard because that's used in the major scale So you can do major minor or minor major and see how that works That's D major going to G minor So automatically you may not have heard a lot of songs on this chord progression All I did was Remove didn't play G major which would normally come as the four major. I just changed it to G minor Another converse thing you can try is D minor going to G major. That's quite nice as well D minor Now you may argue that you know these chords could have been built from other scales well, they are obviously but sometimes it's a little tricky to mug up those scales and You know write it down and whatnot I just found that this trick is quite useful while jamming and Composing and just breaking just getting out of a shell so to speak So whenever you have a one and the four regularly running and you feel ah, it's just it's nice But it could be a little bit more different or a little bit more epic Maybe the four chord could be converted or the one chord could be converted And you can do the exact same thing with the one and the five chord for example D major Would naturally go to a major right if you're playing even on the guitar or any instrument which plays chords You're gonna be like D major a major or D minor a minor which would become the D minor scale So if you do D minor and a major, I think it'll sound quite nice It's actually quite popular because it's used as the harmonic minor scale the notes I played sort of come together and are part of the harmonic minor scale But it's a nice sound. I've not heard a lot of songs in this age written on the harmonic minor scale Maybe you have You can also do D major going to a minor And I'm just noodling a bit just to show you that a nice melody also can be formed We are not just building chords here You're the chords can inspire you to create some nice tunes as well And in fact that is the goal the chords are there to inspire your melody So you should immediately make a melody once once you hear these chords So let's hear how that sounds again D major going to A minor it's quite a nice sound Or you can do D minor going to a major which is sort of popular Used in classical music used in Latin music and so on but it's still quite different if you compare it with the music Which is released these days Yeah, at least in my country which is India so it will start Sounding very very unique and very different now We could go into the modes and the scales which can be formed through these chords As well But I think we'll do that in another lesson and if you have any questions regarding this or anything further You'd like me to explain you can mention it in the comments and I'll be happy to make another video on that But this video is just about a quick thing to inspire your chord journey, right? So this is the first part of this two-part series in the next part I'm going to talk about how you don't even need the one four and the five you can do it even Chromatically just using intervals Which have never been heard before or at least have never been heard together with chords before So practice this and join me in the next lesson. Cheers