{"id":8329,"date":"2015-10-03T05:05:17","date_gmt":"2015-10-03T05:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/2015\/10\/03\/songwriting-techniques-i-stole-from-dave-matthews-jason-mraz\/"},"modified":"2015-10-03T05:05:17","modified_gmt":"2015-10-03T05:05:17","slug":"songwriting-techniques-i-stole-from-dave-matthews-jason-mraz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/2015\/10\/03\/songwriting-techniques-i-stole-from-dave-matthews-jason-mraz\/","title":{"rendered":"Songwriting Techniques I STOLE From Dave Matthews &#038; Jason Mraz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"375\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1wGxSrkmzU4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Click the link below to claim your FREE &#8220;Songwriting Cheat Sheets&#8221;!<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.WriteAwesomeSongs.com<\/p>\n<p>Here are 2 songwriting techniques based on chords I picked up while learning Dave Matthews and Jason Mraz songs. <\/p>\n<p>The first technique I took from Dave Matthews&#8217; song &#8220;Satellite&#8221;. In this song he plays an interesting chord shape as an arpeggio. Dave uses this songwriting technique a lot. You can hear the same chord shape in &#8220;Warehouse&#8221;, &#8220;What would you say&#8221; and a bunch of others. <\/p>\n<p>What I&#8217;ve done is simply take the chord shape and use it in 4 different positions while incorporating some open strings (which is another great songwriting tip &#8211; use open strings!!) The reason this works so well is because this chord is a root, a 5th and a 9th. It&#8217;s the 3rd of a chord that determines its tonality, so you can use this particular chord shape in place of major OR minor chords. This shape also sounds pretty good strummed as a full chord.<\/p>\n<p>The second songwriting technique is based on the 6\/9 chord, which is a really unique and jazzy sounding harmony. Jason Mraz uses it in 2 of his GIANT hit songs, &#8220;curbside prophet&#8221; and &#8220;The Remedy&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>While Mraz uses it as the second chord in his progression, I make it the very first chord in my version. It&#8217;s a really versatile chord because it has a chameleon type of a quality. It can fit into a lot of different situations and sort of creates a feeling of drifting, especially if you strum it for a few beats&#8230;it&#8217;s almost like you can keep strumming it and fade out&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Also notice in this second songwriting technique with the 6\/9 chord, that I incorporate the minor 9 chord that I talk about in the minor chords video, as well as the major 7 chord I talk about in the &#8220;sexing up your major chords&#8221; vid AND a dominant 7th chord. The result is a pop\/jazz kind of groove that sounds pretty freaking awesome if you ask me.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be posting recordings of the entire songs where I use these &#8220;stolen&#8221; songwriting techniques because number 1, I want you to really understand how utterly LUDICROUS it is to think you can ever steal an artist&#8217;s style by using one of his\/her techniques and secondly, I want you to hear my tunes! I spend so much time teaching you, that playing my songs for you gives me a chance to feel vulnerable, embrace constructive criticism and work on opening up my &#8216;beginner eyes&#8217;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Click the link below to claim your FREE &#8220;Songwriting Cheat Sheets&#8221;!<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.WriteAwesomeSongs.com<\/p>\n<p>-Vincent Vinturi<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1wGxSrkmzU4\">source<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click the link below to claim your FREE &#8220;Songwriting Cheat Sheets&#8221;! http:\/\/www.WriteAwesomeSongs.com Here are 2 songwriting techniques based on chords I picked up while learning [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8330,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,50,51,42,34,33,36],"tags":[693,293,694,692,103,113,111,104,349,112,117,695,696,114,116,115],"class_list":["post-8329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creating-a-hit-song","category-how-to-write-soul-music","category-how-to-write-soul-music-songs","category-most-popular-soul-songwriters","category-motown-songwriters","category-r-and-b-songwriters","category-self-publish-songwriter","tag-dave-matthews","tag-how-to-write-a-song","tag-how-to-write-a-song-on-guitar","tag-jason-mraz","tag-songwriter","tag-songwriters-festival","tag-songwriting","tag-songwriting-contest","tag-songwriting-techniques","tag-songwriting-tips","tag-successful-songwriters","tag-vincent-vinturi","tag-write-awesome-songs","tag-writing-lyrics","tag-writing-lyrics-to-a-song","tag-writing-lyrics-to-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}