Am wondering if anyone could help me with some chords of some tracks that I enjoy or could perhaps point me in the right direction or pm me a midi example.
Looking to learn more on the chord progressions used but at my current level I cannot recreate anything similar to these chords so am wondering if anyone could help.
2:42
1:20 & 2:07
2:28
3:08
Right now at my level I use mostly 3 note chords. I haven't been able to get the right combinations in the piano roll.
Will appreciate any help, thanks.
Music Theory Help
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 99 posts since 12 Sep, 2014
AB69 wrote:Am wondering if anyone could help me with some chords of some tracks that I enjoy or could perhaps point me in the right direction or pm me a midi example.
Looking to learn more on the chord progressions used but at my current level I cannot recreate anything similar to these chords so am wondering if anyone could help.
2:42
1:20 & 2:07
2:28
3:08
Right now at my level I use mostly 3 note chords. I haven't been able to get the right combinations in the piano roll.
Will appreciate any help, thanks.
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- KVRAF
- 5440 posts since 4 Aug, 2006 from Helsinki
EDM is not exactly my bag, but a couple of hints which may help you.
After a quick listening of your examples, as a basic observation, the chord progressions of all four follow very much basic and common popular music structures. And what are the typical chord sequencies in majority of the rhythm music? - e.g. using of this so called circle of fifth is a good example - and one starting point - of this, see
http://subaqueousmusic.com/composing-mu ... of-fifths/
There are plenty of good publications for different levels, free in the net, of this subject,
As an example of a this kind of chord analyses, see
https://thornepalmer.wordpress.com/2011 ... -and-roll/
You said that you have used so far mostly triads - I would say that you can write really versatile music and cope with just using triads. However, if you compose more music, you will soon notice that by "coloring" of you chords is most natural way to expand your harmonies. Think the melodies and "borrow" some "extra" notes from the melody (e.g. vocal) passages to your chords. Add these intervals to your basic triads.
Different forms (inversions) of the triads give you much more options for harmonizing. More advanced chord "voicing" is really cool way to create impressive chord progression. See e.g. Youtube: chord voicing.
You mentioned the MIDI picture of the examples above: if you have a DAW which includes audio to midi conversion, e.g. Live 9, you can do it yourself. Some plugins such as the Melodyne does the same job.
I think that better than list you the chords, is to give you some ideas how to do it yourself (...better to teach a man to fish etc.).
Listening and trying yourself - the best have started in that way.
Hope this helps.
After a quick listening of your examples, as a basic observation, the chord progressions of all four follow very much basic and common popular music structures. And what are the typical chord sequencies in majority of the rhythm music? - e.g. using of this so called circle of fifth is a good example - and one starting point - of this, see
http://subaqueousmusic.com/composing-mu ... of-fifths/
There are plenty of good publications for different levels, free in the net, of this subject,
As an example of a this kind of chord analyses, see
https://thornepalmer.wordpress.com/2011 ... -and-roll/
You said that you have used so far mostly triads - I would say that you can write really versatile music and cope with just using triads. However, if you compose more music, you will soon notice that by "coloring" of you chords is most natural way to expand your harmonies. Think the melodies and "borrow" some "extra" notes from the melody (e.g. vocal) passages to your chords. Add these intervals to your basic triads.
Different forms (inversions) of the triads give you much more options for harmonizing. More advanced chord "voicing" is really cool way to create impressive chord progression. See e.g. Youtube: chord voicing.
You mentioned the MIDI picture of the examples above: if you have a DAW which includes audio to midi conversion, e.g. Live 9, you can do it yourself. Some plugins such as the Melodyne does the same job.
I think that better than list you the chords, is to give you some ideas how to do it yourself (...better to teach a man to fish etc.).
Listening and trying yourself - the best have started in that way.
Hope this helps.
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- KVRer
- 4 posts since 16 Jul, 2016
Thank you I liked.