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"  

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...

Download our Circle of Fifths as cheat sheet: Free Download    Here's our PML Circle of Fifths, you can always use it as your personal cheat sheet for finding parallel minor chords, relative minors and good chord substitutions. If you want to learn more about chord progressions, harmony, the basics of music theory and how to come up with great sounding chord progressions, take a look at our in-depth course:  PML Course about harmony and chord progressions: http://productionmusiclive.teachable.com/courses/harmony-and-chord-progressions

Here are two great websites for building and finding (even more complex) chords: Build any chord: You know the name of the chord (e.g. Piano above), you just don't know how to put it together.  Go to this website and it will help you visualize the chord: http://www.onlinepianist.com/chords/ Identify any chord: You have a chord, you see all the notes, but you don't know how it is called.  This website has a nice "Chord ID" function: http://www.scales-chords.com/chordid.php Find your scale http://www.pianoworld.com/fun/vpc/piano_chords.htm  PML Course about harmony and chord progressions: http://productionmusiclive.teachable.com/courses/harmony-and-chord-progressions   Keywords: How to find, name and build chords