Rikky Rooksby
How To Write Songs On Keyboards
2005
instrumental

#    Title    Time    Info  
1 01 A one-finger change 0:22
2 02 Three chords from one--inversions 0:22
3 03 The minor inversion 0:23
4 04 White-key minors 0:23
5 05 Start from a first-inversion shape 0:22
6 06 Start from a minor first inversion 0:23
7 07 Start from a second inversion 0:24
8 08 Start major, move downward 0:24
9 09 Start minor, move downward 0:24
10 10 Beyond three fingers 0:22
11 11 Little finger rises in half steps 0:23
12 12 Little finger rises in whole steps 0:23
13 13 Moving the thumb down 0:24
14 14 Thumb up and down on a minor 0:24
15 15 Thumb up and down on a major 0:23
16 16 Middle finger up and down (suspensions) 0:24
17 17 Moving two fingers 0:23
18 18 The 'crab' move 0:22
19 19 A left-hand move 0:22
20 20 A left-hand 5th and a bass 'crab' 0:24
21 21 The 'three-chord trick' (and the eight-bar) 0:22
22 22 The blues and the 12-bar 0:32
23 23 The 16-bar section 0:38
24 24 Classic song form 1:03
25 25 The three-chord turnaround 0:37
26 26 Three cords meet the minor 0:23
27 27 An easy chord substitute 0:22
28 28 RH inversions and relative minors 0:31
29 29 Hold back the fourth chord 0:28
30 30 Four chords in a 12-bar verse 0:31
31 31 A verse--bridge four-chord song 0:55
32 32 The 'big three' of turnarounds 0:30
33 33 A 'big three' turnaround in G 0:38
34 34 A 'big three' turnaround in D 0:30
35 35 Get more from a turnaround 0:34
36 36 The 'up-escalator' 0:21
37 37 The 'down-escalator' 0:35
38 38 The turnaround meets the inversion 0:40
39 39 The turnaround meets the second inversion 0:13
40 40 Going up and going down 0:23
41 41 Telescoping a turnaround 0:34
42 42 Second turnarounds 0:31
43 43 A six-chord song in C 1:03
44 44 How to 're-decorate' a verse 0:21
45 45 The three-stroke 'clincher' chorus 0:28
46 46 The flat-VII muscles in 0:31
47 47 So this flat-VII went into a 12-bar--- 0:31
48 48 Two more flat chords -- flat-III and flat-VI 0:20
49 49 Between five chords and a hard place 0:44
50 50 Reverse polarity -- playing with majors and minors 0:28
51 51 The 'slush-maker' 0:36
52 52 Flat-degree chords in slush 0:30
53 53 Three-chord rain 0:37
54 54 Rain in a Latin quarter 0:23
55 55 The four-chord minor song 0:47
56 56 When the rain hit the blues 0:50
57 57 Common minor-key progressions 0:21
58 58 Common minor-key progressions (2) 0:30
59 59 Common minor progressions (3) 0:29
60 60 Common minor progressions (4) 0:21
61 61 'Big three' turnarounds in the wet 0:30
62 62 How to make a chord progression tougher 0:20
63 63 How to make a blues blusier 0:33
64 64 How to make chords more romantic 0:28
65 65 How to make chords blend 0:22
66 66 How to make sad chords less sad 0:24
67 67 How to make minor chords threatening 0:23
68 68 How to make major chords exotic 0:22
69 69 How to make chords more dramatic 0:29
70 70 How to make chords enigmatic 0:26
71 71 How to make chords breezier 0:27
72 72 How to make minor chords more tragic 0:26
73 73 How to make chords suitable for rock 0:22
74 74 How to make progressions sound sophisticated 0:37
75 75 A simple method for changing key 0:14
76 76 The reverse-polarity 'gate' 0:23
77 77 The gateway of slush -- using IVm to change key 0:20
78 78 The bridge using minors and avoiding I 0:21
79 79 The coda 0:21
80 80 The implied turnaround intro 0:37
81 81 Descending baseline with static chord intro 0:21
82 82 A descending bass from I to V 0:20
83 83 A descending bass from I to V (2) 0:20
84 84 A descending bass with major chords 0:20
85 85 A descending bass with minor chords 0:20
86 86 Chromatic descending bass 0:22
87 87 The 11th trick 0:25
88 88 Adding movement with inversions 0:24
89 89 The pedal note 0:44
90 90 A soul pedal 0:22
Total time 40:37