Chord Structure of Verses in Modern Rock Songs

Video Transcript

"So let's talk about the chord structure that we're going to want for our verse. And let's talk about the different elements of that. Now a verse, depending on your theme and depending on what you're going for, especially if you're stating a problem or something like that. Especially if you're going to lead into a big and thematic solution, it should probably be in a major key. Let's keep the verses in more of a minor key. Something like that. Right there what I'm doing is I'm going from root six minor to a four. And this is actually just an inversion of the root one major, but it's not root one, it's root three. But it isn't the one major chord. Back up to the five. Those are, you can really do whatever you want, and you can move around over the four chords that are going to be just very strong for you. It's going to be your minor six, major four, major one and major five. And that's going to be in just about any key. So once you've kind of started playing around and kind of developed a good chord structure, it's going to be easy to build on top of. You're ready to actually move on to your verse lyrics and putting lyrics over top of that. But as I said, when writing the verse chords, the chord structure, you're going to want it to be simple. Especially, I mean you can have it as complex as you would like. And good Rock music is always pushing the envelope with that. Sometimes in good Rock music you can, it'll revert back to the Blues or something like that. You can do that too, but depending on what you're doing, especially if you're trying to write a more modern Rock song, I would stick with doing something more major or a more minor during the verse. Maybe something more major during the chorus or vice versa. That's the verse chord structure."