By the end of the lesson, you should be able to arrange any chord progression for other instruments, and hopefully get new insight into the sorts of complex harmonies that can exist within a chord progression.
A NOTE FROM JAKE
The arrangement at the end violates several golden rules. For one, it includes parallel fifths (parallel motion that occurs a perfect fifth apart). As a teacher who lives in the year 2022, I don't want you to burden yourself with these rules unless you're trying to sound like music from the "common practice era", or unless you're trying to pass tests in music school (or if you're just really curious).
On Parallel Motion: If both voices are moving together in the same interval class, it's parallel. If one voice moves up a m3 while the other moves up a M3, those are both THIRDS. The motion is parallel. If one voice moves up a m3 while the other moves up a fourth, those are no longer the same interval class (thirds and fourths), and would not be called parallel motion, but instead would be called similar motion.
Professional arrangement and orchestration takes many more skills than just learning to voice lead. A real arranger/composer will keep in mind the range of the instrument and has to notate music in different clefs. Arrangers also take note of the tonal qualities of instruments and exploit their frequency spectrum to either blend well together or clash and sound juxtaposed.
So this lesson won't turn you into a pro arranger - but it WILL get you writing your first 3 and 4 part harmonies and I think it's a great start to composing more advanced harmony. I highly advise you combine this lesson with my last lesson on harmony, found here https://youtu.be/8lCf7q_VPHA
I also suggest you consider how many more options you will have when writing your voices if you are comfortable with your diatonic seventh chords, inversions, and secondary dominants.
- Seventh Chords: https://youtu.be/3JizNRwHYNY
- Inverted Chords: https://youtu.be/LFN-eKved_8
- Secondary Dominants: https://youtu.be/py4HaueW50Q
- If you know all this stuff, you'll know exactly how I wrote this arrangement! https://youtu.be/EC_Fvs3TEj4
Also, I said at 17:50ish that there is only one way to play that E7 on guitar. But there is another....
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