Adding CHORDS To A MELODY | Music Theory Guitar Lesson

Have you ever created a SICK melody or riff, and then thought... "ok, well, what next? What chords would work to accompany this?". Well here you go 😉 This video will help you out with just that. I'll show you all of the available chords that you can use to help assist your melody, show you which ones have the strongest pull, and how to use them to manipulate the listeners expectations.

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Hey! My name is Darryl Syms, and uh, well, I play guitar! I mean, I do a bunch of other cool things too - hopefully you can get to know me a little bit more through some of my videos.

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[adsvx]

One of the best lessons on this subject I've seen on YT. Great job, Darryl, and thank you.

[wayoojrsuchiang]

Wow!! I never knew that rhythm guitar would be this interesting.. I always thought solos were the time and space i would spend time working on but tq to you Dryl for giving more knowledge about how interesting n fun rhythm guitar can be in fact it makes the solo come to life more.

[headstockharem]

Great lesson! I liked the II Dim chord as the first chord, sounded nice.

[ZLLoVeR]

Loved the visual aids here, this really opened up a new way for me to think about harmony. Great lesson!

[lilikura]

Thank you so much for this video. I remember asking you for something similar. Once again, thank you! ❤️🙏🏾

[zarcero]

Excellent, falls in line with all theory.

[Nathan-mxzx]

awesome video, is it also possible to play this while playing chords ? i am trying to find a video on how you play the melody with the chords. thanks again, i will refer this channel to many friends.

[notebender]

Nice man, I'm kinda getting it slowly but surely... Thanks...

[christiansakai]

Darryl, when you write songs, do you write chord first or melody first?

[NowakP]

At 2:22 you say II dim, but you actually play II dim7 chord. I'm assuming the naming is for simplification's sake, but it confused me a bit, because when I think of a 'regular' diminished chord I think "b5 and b3!" (in this order) and not "bb7 b3!" :)

Great lesson otherwise :)

[abeelabbar]

I have a question. What if I used a scale instead of a key to create my chords. It doesn't look like there are any sharps within that key when he makes his chords.

[prodbyaye]

Thnx a lot polyphia does this stuff only but their genre is different

[felixleroi]

I just want to play a melody and add chords to it without overthinking which note I’m playing and which chords work. Isn’t there a more intuitive way?