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Making some chords...
« on: March 17, 2016, 12:20:22 am »
Well. I have been working on a new tune, its sound really cool, but I´m in the melody part before the drop (Breakdown I think) but I need more back sounds to the melody :o, also I have been listening another tracks and having ideas like bass lines, chords, long sweeps...so...

Can anyone give me some tips about putting chords into a melody?
How I can start it?
How you make your chords? ???
Thanks for replies  :D

Sorry about bad grammar, not my language  ;D
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Re: Making some chords...
« Reply #1 on: March 17, 2016, 12:22:38 pm »
Pads are always a good idea to add more background sound. Even though they are mostly unnoticeable they still makes the sound more full.
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Re: Making some chords...
« Reply #2 on: March 17, 2016, 02:45:44 pm »
What I do is when my main melody is playing I play another melody by hand underneath and just remember what sounds good or not, all by ear. This can very from pads, to plucks, to piano. From there I can do layering on those sounds making a bigger stereo image and check between stereo -> mono in the meantime. If it sounds big in mono it sounds even better in stereo.

Noise also fills up space very well.
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Re: Making some chords...
« Reply #3 on: March 18, 2016, 08:58:15 am »
Read about scales and such, this website also helps a ton if you don't have that much of a music theory background:
http://www.pianoworld.com/fun/vpc/piano_chords.htm

Just pick a root note, a scale (Minor for example) and the notes displayed down under "Notes in chord/scale" are the notes you're allowed to use for that specific scale, if you're on Ableton I recommend putting in all of those notes on top of each other and filling them on as many octaves as possible, then moving them back so you don't hear them and folding the piano roll, now you can place notes randomly without going off key.

Hope this helps.
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Re: Making some chords...
« Reply #4 on: March 19, 2016, 04:33:30 am »
you gotta know your major and minor chords and your scales inside and out if you want to make 'melodic' music, you can kinda... get away with it with serious synthesis work though if your sounds are great

even today I'm still working on it and scratching my head about chords, thats the most special part of music

there are techniques to make chords of course..
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Re: Making some chords...
« Reply #5 on: March 20, 2016, 12:10:01 pm »
"Harmonisation of melody." A lot of tutorials on YouTubezzz. :)
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