Major, minor and extended chords on the keyboard and piano
Major, minor and extended chords on the keyboard and piano: Music Theory Practice part 2 – Extended chords: Just some more music theory rules. You will need to have some music theory knowledge or you could always book workshop 4 of my Logic 9 Music Production course. These notes are for recap purposes. 7 chords have the 7th note in the scale FLATTENED 9 chords have the 7th note in the scale FLATTENED and the 9th ADDED 11 chords have the 7th note in the scale FLATTENED, the 9th ADDED and the 11 ADDED 13 chords have the 7th note in the...
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Music theory practice, chord progressions, keys and scales: A music production college I worked at in London a while back asked me to teach a Music Theory and Music Composition course with chord progressions, keys & scales. I know my way around a fretboard of a guitar and used to play in jazz bands before I discovered turntables, so I thought I give it a whirl! I looked on the internet for ages for good simple rules for chords, scales and extended chords but couldn’t find anything that I thought would be easy for the students to...
read moreLogic pro 9 Environment Chord Memorizer: Musical tips
Logic pro 9 Environment Chord Memorizer: Musical tips: One object I have in my music production environment click and ports layer is the Chord Memorizer, which can be a great music trick for DJ’s with limited musical skills. The Chord Memorizer can be a useful music production music theory fix for DJ’s if you just want to quickly put some chords together which will have a good chance of going well with each other. I usually set it up so C plays chord one, D plays chord two, E plays chord three right up to B which will play chord...
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