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1. #LIQUID NOTES CHORDS FROM MELODY HOW TO#
2. #LIQUID NOTES CHORDS FROM MELODY FOR MAC#
3. #LIQUID NOTES CHORDS FROM MELODY UPDATE#
4. #LIQUID NOTES CHORDS FROM MELODY SERIES#

This is the basics of how to build your chords from melody. Using my chord-building strategy (you can see it here), build the chords up when you’re happy with how the bass notes are working with your melody:Īnd that’s it! A nice, tasty chord progression, inspired by your melody! Also, if you write your bass notes and chords in the same clip as the melody with a polyphonic sound, you’ll be able to see what’s going on much easier. This is a strong place to start a chord progression (but not essential if you prefer starting elsewhere). Now I just need to stick to notes within that template, and I can’t go wrong:ĮDMtip: Try starting your chord progression on the root or “tonic” note, in this example, it’s “B”.

In this example, I’ve created a template of the key of “B Minor Natural” using Ableton’s “Fold” feature in the piano roll editor. Using only the notes in your melody’s key, start programming in the bass notes of your chord progression. Whatever feels right for your track is the best option! You might even just stick to one chord…especially if it’s a techno track…or a deep house track might just have 2 chords. You might have 3 chord changes over 4 bars (one chord lasting twice as long as the other 2), or you might have an 8-bar loop instead, with even more chord changes.

Write in the bass notes of your chords.Īn EDM loop will usually have 4 chord changes one for each bar. So in this example, we can see the melody is written in “B Minor”. Success! The melody is in the key of “B Minor”. When compared to the notes in the key of “B Minor”, we can see that our melody matches perfectly. This is a now an easy-to-use template for that key. EDMtip: In Ableton Live, once you’ve written in every note of a scale, you can move them left of the clip so they don’t play, and press the “fold” button. Compare how much of your melody falls on these notes. Just in case you don’t know, though, here’s what you can do to find out:Ĭount up the major key intervals from the root note, drawing in each note of the scale (so in this example each note of “B Major”).

You’ll probably have an idea of this anyway if it sounds “happy”, it’s probably major, and if it sounds “sad” it’s probably minor. Ii) Next is to determine whether the key of the melody is major or minor. In this example we can see the root note of my key is “B”: You can always copy and paste the separate elements into different sounds afterwards.Ī quick and dirty way of doing it is to write in a repeating single bass note, and loop your melody whilst shifting this bass note up and down until you find the one that sounds best, and most “solid” with your melody. notes that aren’t in the key of the melody, but still sound good) this can be a bit trickier. If you do this exercise with a polyphonic sound like a grand piano, it’s easier to work out all the chords in the same clip as the melody as you can see what’s going on more easily. How: i) You can refer to the Circle of Fifths, or use my “Keys” cheat sheet (download here) and cross-reference the notes in your melody until you find the key, but if you have any “accidentals” in your melody (i.e. Work out what key your melody is in.ĭon’t worry, it’s not too hard! I’ll show you how… I’m using Ableton Live for this example, but you can do it just as easily in any DAW.

#LIQUID NOTES CHORDS FROM MELODY FOR MAC#

Liquid Notes is available for Mac and Windows, priced starting at US $149.How to make EDM chords from a melody, step-by-step guide: Step 1. The first of these updates for Liquid Notes is planned for September 2013. The next updates to Liquid Notes are set to include drop-­down lists for more immediate chord selection, and a piano roll. The new song overview serves as a way to indicate identical and similar harmonic segments, like verse and chorus, but also much smaller regions.” It analyzes your piece and detects its various musical elements and their correlations…. “Thanks to intelligent algorithms that are able to read and interpret a song like a composer might, becomes your assistant when you want to create music. A slider frame enables the user to select the region of the song on which to focus it can also be used to zoom in and out of a piece.Ĭompany co-founder Roland Trimmel explains how it works: The addition of an overview of the song gives the user greater control over the composition and easier navigation.

#LIQUID NOTES CHORDS FROM MELODY SERIES#

The addition of the song overview capability is the first in a series of upcoming updates.

#LIQUID NOTES CHORDS FROM MELODY UPDATE#

Re­Compose recently released an update of its intelligent music production tool, Liquid Notes with an interactive song overview feature which displays all chord regions at once.