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How to write your own Chords & Melodies starting with mega-hit HAVANA

Chord Progressions Melody

Struggle writing Chord Progressions and Melodies? Our friend Alex is sitting down with you and guides you through some easy techniques - like the "2+1 rule" for catchy melodies. He takes "Havana" from Camila Cabello and creates something entirely different, while explaining why the melody works and how a progression gets cohesive! Subscribe to our Channel to not miss any episode of this new format!   Also available:Full 5h+ Course: Harmony & Chord Progressions Full 4h+ Course: How To Write Melodies  keywords: how to write melodies, chord progressions, chords  

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Chords, Voicing and Writing Session #5 - Uplifting Summer House in C#-Minor

Chord Progressions Chords Music Theory Writing Music

  In this tutorial, Francois is writing and voicing uplifting Summer House chords in the C#-Minor scale shooting trying to achieve a optimistic and stable sounding chord progression in the style of EDX, Nora En Pure, Dinka, Armas, etc. Listen in! Feel free to take a look at our MIDI packs:   MIDI Pack   Learn more about our Harmony and Chords: Course: Harmony & Chord Progressions        Keywords: EDM, Progressive House Chords, EDX Chords, Nora En Pure Chords, Dinka Chords, style track with ableton live, drums with ableton live, remix ableton project file, edit, starting with ableton live, starting out with ableton live.

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Chords and Melody Writing Session #4 - Progressive House / EDM in D-Minor

Ableton Live Chord Progressions Chords EDM Future Bass Music Theory Writing Music

  In this tutorial, Francois is writing chords in the F-Minor scale shooting trying to achieve a rather dramatic and full sounding chord progression on an 8-voices and detuned saw lead sound. Listen in! Feel free to take a look at our MIDI packs:   MIDI Pack   Learn more about our Harmony and Chords: Course: Harmony & Chord Progressions        Keywords: EDM, Progressive House Chords, Future Bass Chords, Martin Garrix Chords, Avicii Chords, style track with ableton live, drums with ableton live, remix ableton project file, edit, starting with ableton live, starting out with ableton live.

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Chords and Melody Writing Session #3 - Hirajoshi Scale (Boiler, David August Style)

Ableton Live Chord Progressions Chords Music Theory Writing Music

  In this tutorial, Francois is writing chords and melodies using one of the nicest scales out there, the "Hirajoshi" scale. Although the scale first seems to be a little reduced, it offers endless jamming possibilities and an amazing atmosphere full of tension. But listen yourself! Feel free to take a look at our MIDI packs:   MIDI Pack   Learn more about our Harmony and Chords: Course: Harmony & Chord Progressions        Keywords: Boiler Room Style, David August, Francois Rengere, Nicolas Jaar, Berlin Techno Melody, Berlin Techno Chords, style track with ableton live, drums with ableton live, remix ableton project file,...

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Chords and Melody Writing Session #2 - Melodic Deep / Techno with Moog Bass (E-Minor)

Ableton Live Chord Progressions Chords Deep House Music Theory Writing Music

  In this tutorial, Francois is writing some moody chords and melodies on one of our Melodic Deep / Techno Ableton Projects. Sticking to E-Minor, he's trying to achieve a dramatic moody but also slightly uplifting and dreamy harmonic pattern. Feel free to take a look at our MIDI packs:   MIDI Pack   Ableton Template used: Deep Melodics - Ableton Template    Learn more about our Harmony and Chords: Course: Harmony & Chord Progressions        Keywords: Stephan Bodzin Type Melody, Berlin Techno Melody, Berlin Techno Chords, style track with ableton live, drums with ableton live, remix ableton project file, edit, starting...

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Studio Session: Francois "Clouds" - Cleaning and tweaking a song project (David August, Boiler Room Style, Electronica)

Ableton Live Chord Progressions Melody Sound Design Studio Session Writing Music

In this session, Francois is loading up an old Ableton project (David August Style), cleans up and works on harmonies, melodies, sound design, mixing and a very simple mastering while commenting on everything. The track is called Francois "Clouds". Sit back, get a beer and feel free to follow along. Contents: Cleaning the project Analyzing harmonies and melodies (hirojoshi scale) Analyzing the drum pattern (powered by Deep Premium Vol. 1 Drum Samples) Editing the Mix (EQ, Compression, Mid-Side EQ, Reverbs, FX) Sound Design tweaking and analysis  Quick Mix and Mastering  Playback of result If you'd like to dig deeper into...

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Top 9 Melody and Chord Progression Tutorials for Electronic Music

Chord Progressions List Melody Music Production Music Theory

We're getting a lot of mails from producers struggling to write great melodies and chord progressions, so we've compiled a list of our best YouTube-Tutorials on writing music on Ableton: How to write a Melody in Ableton - Beginners Tutorial Writing an EDM Melody in A-Minor Scale Creating a EDM Chord Progression and Melody / House, Progressive, Trance, Electro Writing Chords and Melody from Scratch: Tropical / Deep House How to write Future Bass Chords and Melody from Scratch (Flume, San Holo, Chainsmokers, Odesza) How to write Progressive House Chords and Melody from Scratch What makes a good Chord Progression? Info: "Harmony and...

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How to write Catchy Vocal Parts - The Millennial Whoop

Chord Progressions Melody Music Theory Writing Music

If you're not sure how to fill up your vocal parts, be sure to put in ohh-ohh's skipping from the third to the fifth of your chord:   How do I use it in my song? You can apply many different forms - for example "whoo-ooah-whoo-ooah", "ooo-ooah-ooo-ooah" or even "eeeyy-oooh-eeeyy-oooh" - you can't really do any wrong here. Just make sure you put in ohh-ohh's skipping from the fifth to the third or the third to the fifth of your chord - like illustrated below: Harmony & Chord Progressions If you're looking to get a deeper understanding of Music Writing, Chords, Chord Progressions, Harmony and Melodies, feel...

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Youtube Playlist: Writing Chord Progressions & Melodies from Scratch

Chord Progressions List Melody Music Theory Writing Music

  We're getting a lot of mails from producers struggling to write great melodies and chord progressions, so we've compiled a free playlist of our best YouTube-Tutorials on writing music:YouTube Playlist: Writing Chord Progressions and Melodies from Scratch How to write a Melody in Ableton - Beginners Tutorial Writing an EDM Melody in the A-Minor Scale Creating an EDM Chord Progression and Melody How to write Tropical House Chords and Melody from Scratch How to write Future Bass Chords and Melodies How to write Progressive House Chords and Melodies What makes a good Chord Progression? Chords and Melody Writing Session #1 - Melodic Deep...

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How To Make a Future Bass Drop - Ableton Live + Massive, Beginners (Part 1)

Ableton Ableton Live 9 Chord Progressions Future Bass TrackFromScratch

    Hi! If you’re a beginner and you’d like to finally make some future bass, this tutorial is perfect for you. Today we’re going to make a future bass drop from scratch. The end result of this tutorial sounds like this: Whether you like the end result or not, I think there will are a couple of good production techniques in this tutorial, which will help you in making future bass for sure. Make sure to check out our 5+ hour video course tutorials on creating the extended full version of this Future Bass track from Scratch! Let’s get started...

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