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  

  Sometimes you simply have a melody on your mind and your trying to figure out what chords to play along with it. Now this tutorial offers a simple approach taken from our MELODY Course, showing you how to do that: Finding chords for your melody, steps to follow: Try to transpose the melody to a scale you know well. Try to find your bass notes first. Start with the root note (of the scale). Many progressions start or end with the root note (tonic). After finding a fitting bass progression, build chords on it. A basic chord is built from the...

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...

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...

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...

  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...

In this tutorial, Tom is writing a complete Progressive House track from scratch (similar to the style of One Republic - If I lose myself (Alesso Remix)). He starts with chord progressions and later goes over bass and melodies.     =====   If you want to learn more about the basics of harmony and chord progressions, check out our in-depth course: PML Course: "Harmony and Chord Progressions"  

In this tutorial, Tom is writing a complete Future Bass track from scratch (similar to the style of San Holo, Flume, The Chainsmokers, Odesza). He starts with chord progressions and later goes over bass and melodies.     =====   If you want to learn more about the basics of harmony and chord progressions, check out our in-depth course: PML Course: "Harmony and Chord Progressions"  

In this tutorial, Tom is writing a complete track from scratch, starting with chord progressions, then going over bass and finishing with melodies.     =====   If you want to learn more about the basics of harmony and chord progressions, check out our in-depth course: PML Course: "Harmony and Chord Progressions"  

Writing deeper chord progressions: Lets try and design a rather exotic sounding chord. We could combine regular major / minor triads into poly chords. Lets build a classic one first: 1. First chord: Use C major (C-E-G)  2. Second chord: G major (G-B-D)  For the 2nd chord, we picked G major (G-B-D) because it has its root a perfect fifth above the root of the first chord.  3. If we play the two chords together, we’re getting a Cmaj9 chord (C-E-G-B-D).  Tip: Look for chords that have a note or two in common whenever you’re not sure which chords to combine. (inspired by CMM...