Francois: I was playing around on the piano and enjoyed the sound of the Gmin7/A# chord. Quickly opened Ableton to mess around and see what I could come up with: This is the final chord progression (04:36): Gmin7/A#, CmajAdd2, Cmaj, FmajAdd2/A, Amin7, A# majAdd2 - ending up in C Mixolydian mode.    Learn more about writing Melodies and Harmony and Chord Progressions: ➤ Course: HOW TO WRITE MELODIES ➤ Course: HARMONY AND CHORD PROGRESSION ➤ MIDI PACK: CHORD PROGRESSIONS ➤ MIDI COMPLETE PACK (820+files)     Check out our courses - intro:

  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.

  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.

  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,...

  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...

  In this tutorial, Francois is writing some moody chords and melodies on one of our Melodic Deep / Techno Ableton Projects. Sticking to D-Minor, he's trying to achieve a dramatic moody but easy to grasp melodic chords pattern for late club hours.   Feel free to take a look at our MIDI packs:   MIDI Pack   Ableton Template used: Melodic Deepness - 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...

Writing melodies and chords Writing melodies and chords can be difficult. The best future bass tracks always have an excellent catchy melody & chord progression. Today we will go over some techniques, that help you get better at writing hooks. Here’s our Harmony and Chord Progressions course!  1. Know what emotion you're trying to capture Before you start writing a progression, it’s good to think about what kind of mood is the track going to be in. If you’re aiming at a happier feel, try using major scales. If you’re trying to achieve a more mysterious vibe, try writing some...

  In this tutorial, we are quickly learning how to write the chords from Ed Sheeran "Shape Of You" from scratch. And in this case we are using Ableton Live. But any program will work in this case.   Synth Sound is part of this pack: Sylenth1 Future Essentials    Learn more about our Harmony and Chords: Course: Harmony & Chord Progressions        Keywords: ed sheeran shape of you chords, style track with ableton live, drums with ableton live, remix ableton project file, edit, starting with ableton live, starting out with ableton live.

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...