{"id":2476,"date":"2012-04-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-28T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.museonmuse.jp\/?p=2476"},"modified":"2017-05-18T09:27:37","modified_gmt":"2017-05-18T00:27:37","slug":"gary-hoey-column-vol-2-song-writing-chord-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.museonmuse.jp\/?p=2476","title":{"rendered":"Gary Hoey Column Vol.2 “Song writing Chord Families”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hi to all my fans in Japan. It\u2019s good to be back after finishing producing Lita Ford. Her new CD \u201cLiving Like A Runaway\u201d will be out June 19th in North America. On SPV records. Working with Lita Ford was a great experience. She is a great guitarist and her new album is the best she has ever done. I will be on tour playing guitar in her band on the \u201cRock Of Ages\u201d Tour with Def Leppard and Poison this summer in North America.\u00a0 I wanted to talk about song writing in this column.<\/p>\n


\nI\u2019ve been writing songs for over 30 years and I had to write many bad ones before the good ones came. My approach to writing is to study the masters, The Beatles, Led Zepplin, Elton John, Van Halen, Journey, I would sit down with a note pad and write down the arrangement, how the song started, if it had a bridge, was there a pre chorus? Songs can be many chords or one chord. I\u2019m a producer so I like to create a mood with a song. It has to tell a story with the words or with the music if it\u2019s instrumental.<\/p>\n

I learned my chord scales in all keys. I call them Chord Families, For Example #1 in C major it is C Major, D Minor, E Minor, F Major, G Major, A Minor, B Minor flat5, and back to C Major.\u00a0 It also has roman numerals that help to change a song to a different key fast. I major, II minor, III minor, IV major, V major, VI minor, VII minor flat 5, and back to I major.
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