Song Science #4: Mastering Modulation in your Songwriting

Bring energy and intrigue to your songs with multiple modulation techniques

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Song Science #4: Mastering Modulation in your Songwriting

What You Will Learn!

Use varying types of modulation in your songwriting
Release energy in your songs through modulation
Create contrast in your songs through modulation
Travel to far away keys and close keys
Implement relative key, parallel key, and relative-parallel key modulation
Use sophisticated modulation techniques (common tone, pivot chords, chromatic mediant, etc.)
See how real hit songs use modulation techniques

Description

Modulation can bring energy, intrigue, and prosody to your songs!

Songwriters from Mariah Carey to Taylor Swift to The Beatles have successfully used these techniques!

What is Modulation?

Modulation, simply, is changing from one key to another key within a song.

For example, you can have a Chorus in the Key of E and then when you get to the Bridge you can modulate to the key of C.

How do you know where to Modulate?

Modulation distance is dependent on how similar keys are. In this course you'll learn how to modulate to close keys as well as far away keys.

Additionally there are multiple ways to modulate to another key. In this course you'll learn multiple techniques and be shown real examples of this happening.

Some of these techniques include: