Chord 'Emotions'

I want to talk about emotions in your chord progressions. What do I mean? I mean that your chord progressions are what can contribute to sad, fearful, happy, (etc) songs. Yes, just music alone can make you feel a certain emotion, but I am sure you already knew that. I want to show you a few chord progressions that can make you 'feel' a certain way.

Examples:

G/C/D/C/G. . . is a happy chord progression. There is many of many songs that use this chord progression. You would be amazed in how many of the common songs you know that tend to make you feel good actually use these chords.

If you wish to make your song a much more dreary and sad, play your chords slower and add a minor chord.
Here is how you can incorporate a minor chord in the key of G.
G/C/Em/D/G. . .
Play the chords slower by either strumming slower or picking out the individual notes in the chord.

Don't understand wrong, just because you have added a minor chord, that does not mean that the song has to be sad and dreary. There are again many songs that use minor chords with a happy tune. I am just giving you the reader ideas on how to make songs you are composing a more sad tune. It's really going to come out in how you feel at the time you are writting the song. You will find that it is very difficult to write sad songs when you are happy and happy songs when you are feeling sad. Write songs about how you feel at the time, because these are the best songs that get written.

The emotion of song does not come from one single character, but a number of things such as speed of play, chord progressions as discussed, and lyrics. Even the tone of voice effects your songs inner emotions.