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| Robbie_S |
The other day while dicking around in Abelton I discovered that I could get around my complete lack of knowledge on chord progressions. I did this by inserting the chord effect on a midi channel followed by the scale effect which helps keep it in key. This may not be news to many of you but I found it quite helpful.
Unfortunately, Ableton is not my DAW of choice and I was wondering if there was anyway I could recreate the same effect in Logic Pro? If not, perhaps someone could point me to some easy-to-understand tutorials on chord progressions :D. Thanks for your help |
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| Robbie_S |
| my god that seems like a lot of work. I really need to start using Ableton i guess than, or teach myself some music theory i suppose. thanks for your help man, ill be at this all night :conf: |
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| Beatflux |
| quote: | Originally posted by Robbie_S
The other day while dicking around in Abelton I discovered that I could get around my complete lack of knowledge on chord progressions. I did this by inserting the chord effect on a midi channel followed by the scale effect which helps keep it in key. This may not be news to many of you but I found it quite helpful.
Unfortunately, Ableton is not my DAW of choice and I was wondering if there was anyway I could recreate the same effect in Logic Pro? If not, perhaps someone could point me to some easy-to-understand tutorials on chord progressions :D. Thanks for your help |
It's stupidly easy to learn how to play them on your own. |
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| Rodri Santos |
ehm chord progressions?¿ it's quite simple. Sounds good = Woahhh sounds like , try again.
Why people bother finding software to create chord progressions, following the key is really intuitive and mixing various keys isn't really hard, i've my music theory dusted and still find so easy to get a non generic chord prog. |
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| Robbie_S |
| quote: | Originally posted by Beatflux
It's stupidly easy to learn how to play them on your own. |
really? because im reading a bunch of tutorials online and various wiki articles and it might as well be written in japanese |
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| skyhunter |
C, Ab, Eb, Bb
Now you know every chord for every song by Basshunter or Tune up.
Go get 'em. |
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| Beatflux |
| quote: | Originally posted by Robbie_S
really? because im reading a bunch of tutorials online and various wiki articles and it might as well be written in japanese |
If you were sitting right next to me I could have you pumping out chords in about 10 seconds. But since this is the internet...
you should buy a book on basic music theory. |
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| Robbie_S |
| quote: | Originally posted by Beatflux
If you were sitting right next to me I could have you pumping out chords in about 10 seconds. But since this is the internet...
you should buy a book on basic music theory. |
that would be idea as a i find i learn the best that way. Definitely looking into getting a book tho as that would be the best long term solution |
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| EliPsE |
Here you go. A user on the logic pro help forum made a great macro for this. http://www.logicprohelp.com/viewtop...9e317b6337c1382
You can download the files at that site. Enjoy
| quote: | | So I mentioned in this thread that I had created a simple little macro to map specific notes to one of various scales and modes (Western only, no micro-tonality). Someone asked me if I could upload it and here it is. The idea came about from wanting to try out scales and modes I don't normally use and learn their sound, without having to memorize them on the keyboard first. Not being a keyboard player, this can come in handy in situations where you just want to improvise on a certain scale or mode without having to worry about playing "wrong" notes. This still requires that you to learn the mappings, but these are easy as they remain the same no matter what key you're in. For the sake of completeness, I decided to include scales which are already quite easy to play/memorize (the whole tone scale, for example). Mappings go like this: 8-note scales = C major scale plus the A# key (all other keys unmapped) 7-note scales = C major scale (all white keys, black keys unmapped) 6-note scales* = C major scale minus the B key (all other keys unmapped) 5-note scales = C# (Db) pentatonic scale (5th mode of the Eb minor pentatonic...All black keys, white keys unmapped) *Also included the blues scale as part of 6-note scales, and the mapping is the same as the pentatonics except for an added G key for the "blue note". The mappings cover the C-2 to G8 range. Keep this in mind if you use key switches mapped chromatically. You can always unpack the macro and change the range of the chord memorizer objects within if you need to. The interface looks like this: Shocked So basically you choose a scale type, a scale/mode, and the root key. To keep it simpler, transposition of root keys only goes up (If you need to transpose down to some other key use the octave buttons in your keyboard). I've added an On/Off switch so that you can go back to being a real musician every once in a while, plus a keyboard monitor that shows which notes are actually coming out. Uses: Great for brainless keyboard improvisation and experimenting with polytonal sequencing. Learning the sound of scales and their modes without much effort |
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| meriter |
Hey thanks for posting this but it seems to have more to do with keeping things in scale.. doesn't seem to have any chord capabilities but I might not be using it right(?) |
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| Von Pistol |
go to the "master list" in this forum section and there are some links to Chord Prog you can read.
VP |
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