How to Write a Song On a Guitar

guitarlessons.com; the number one name in guitar lessons online. Hi I’m Nate Savage and today we are going to write a song together. Now I have no idea what I’m going to play and I’m not a songwriter at all, so everything I did is just going to made up on the spot. My producer just five minutes ago told me, ‘go on there and write a song’ and I was like, ‘oh, okay.’ We’ll give you some guidelines and some tips on how to choose some chords and then we’ll just tone together and write a song. So let’s pick a key. Let’s go in the key of E major and I know just from a little bit of research and a little bit of playing that my options for my major chords in the key of E are going to be E, A, and B major. The options for my minor chords are going to be a sharp minor, G sharp minor and C sharp minor. So if you have those six options, you could kind of note it down and choose some notes and you know those chords are going to sound good and that key. Take my word for it right now, but if you research keys later on, on your own, you’ll find out that like what easy chords in the key of G or what the chords in the key of D are. So let’s go, let’s get started, I feel like playing the F sharp minor. [Demonstration] Okay so that’s, let’s do that on our first. Let’s go to, I don’t know, let’s do a major chord note, so let’s go to B major. [Demonstration] Go back to F sharp minor. [Demonstration] So I think of Pink Floyd right now for some reason. Anyway, go alternate back and forth between those. [Demonstration] And for the chorus, let’s bring it around to the root note; the key of E, just play an E chord. [Demonstration] Okay, all I’m doing there is playing an E major, [Demonstration] A B major, [Demonstration] and an A. [Demonstration] Now I feel like I’m in Gun’s and Roses playing “Knockin’ on Heavens Door” or something, but you could see those just those four chords. [Demonstration] Put together in just a random way that I picked out because I knew those chords, going to that key can be the beginning of a really cool way to express yourself and to write your own music. So take those four chords or the other two that I mentioned; throw them in there, make up your own songs, go research what chords are in other keys and take those chords and you’ll be on your way. You can write as many songs as your imagination will allow.