10 Chord Patterns for 10 Different Emotions
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DAW (Music making software): Logic Pro and Ableton Live
Studio monitors (speakers): Yamaha HS8's
Headphones: Audeze LCD X (open back)
Camera: Canon 80d
Computer: Mac Studio with M2 Ultra chip and 2 TB hardrive
Midi controller (keyboard): Komplete Kontrol 61
Interface: Scarlett Clarett 2 pre
Desk: a cheap one from ikea
Chair: also a cheap one from ikea
My favorite plugins that I use the most:
XFER Serum
Sylenth 1
Nexus 3
Kontakt
RC 20
Valhalla Shimmer
Valhalla Vintage Verb
Shaperbox 3
XFER OTT
Fab Filter Saturn 2
Fab Filter Pro C 2
Arturia Pigments
Baby Audio Comeback Kid
Output Thermal and Portal
LABS Soft Piano
Hardware that I use behind the scenes but not in videos:
Elektron Octatrack (my fav)
Elektron Digitakt
Korg Minilogue XD
Hey loving the EDM Bootcamp it's helping me to create sounds and particularly styles that I never believed I could do! Big shout out to Alex Rome for this! 10 out of 10 for help with the creative ideas and ultra-catchy methods & the sound design! It was the free KZhead videos that were so good that got me into the course
Thanks a lot Dan!
@@AlexRome I really loved #8 can I have the instrumental? Pls?
Yes I agree Alex thanks man
@@AlexRome Tell them not to skip your ads for first 30 sec.
@@AlexRome How many octave higher exactly?
1. Basic chords 2. Move up thirds 3. Pedal & Tonic 4. Profit ✍
Pop music: WRITE THAT DOWN WRITE THAT DOWN
@@ManuCel_ WRITE THAT SHIET DOWN!!!!
whats pedal and tonic
@@quanathan It's explained in the video
Wow, I thought the comment was funny until I read the replies, then my brain made that XP sound 🤣
1. 0:18 euphoric/uplifting 2. 1:25 serious/deep 3. 2:52 tense/suspenseful 4. 3:47 sad/sorrowful 5. 4:45: feel good/joyful 6. 6:13 feel good/sorrowful 7. 7:15 pump up/dark 8. 8:44 pump up/joyful 9. 9:57 relaxed/chill 10. 11:25 happy/cheerful
Thanks buddy
Thanks
Omg thank you so much
ur a good human
man just ruined bro’s view retention 💀 thanks so much
My man just nonchalantly creating mini bangers to demonstrate us chord progressions. What a legend..
RIGHT
Noticing a trend. Take four notes from any scale but not the 2nd or 3rd. Choose a random order with the tonic at the end, make it a chord in the scale. Move the third up. Add a pedal tone of the tonic or thirds depending on vibe of chosen progression. I'm actually amazed at how versatile the 6th and seventh are in pop and edm music. Amazing video.
It was confusing for me at first to see so many 7 chords being used until I realised that they were 7 chords in relation to minor keys. Chords built on the 7th degree of the major scale are typically diminished chords and are much less likely to show up in pop and edm.
Progression 1 (uplifting) / 5, 6, 7, 1 Progression 2 (serious) / 6, 7, 1, 7 Progression 3 (tense) / root chord Progression 4 (sad) / 1, 7, 4, 6 Progression 5 (feel good) / 6, 3, 7, 1 Progression 6 (sad euphoric) / 6, 1, 7, 5 Progression 7 (pump) / 1, 6, 4 Progression 8 (happy pump) / 1, 3, 6 Progression 9 (chill) / 6,1,7,1 Progression 10 (happy) 4,5,1
Thx for this bro
You a real one
I love u bro
what do the numbers mean??
Chord Progression are specified with Roman Numerals I, II, III, IV and so on.@@sktru89
Biggest take away are pedal chords and a great explanation of tonics. I love how those just come up on the side as a quick reminder. World class content.
False, the biggest take away is to put the third up an octave
@@cmanthetank144 I should have said MY biggest take away. Both of these are good learnings. I definitely liked the moving of the 3rd. For me I was already doing that with inversions so Pedal chords were a bigger deal to me. Regardless of the takeaway Alex does a great job explaining many techniques.
@@JleStudios Lmfao i was just making a joke cause he said that like 50 fuking times your good
69 likes congrats
@@SKhan1056 wow I hadn't even noticed.. Thanks
I like doing the first progression, but making the last chord F#, C#, A, it gives it a nice tonal shift to a deeper mood. Also, major props to Alex, I've never seen someone so excited to teach us things and vibe to what he's doing at the same, I've learned so much from this guy! 💚
Not gonna lie, that chill and relaxed with the soft piano sounded like a song that would be used to change the mood of a movie scene to somber really fast. Beautifully made! Love every one you have made in this video!
No sh*t, no unnecessary talking, just a master at work. You are awesome bro👏
Why can't more people realize this??
You’ve got my skills going from Beethoven’s tone deaf cousin Linus to the big man himself. Thanks for sharing your knowledge Alex. Appreciated by many 🙏🏻
haha! no prob
God loves you all! The Father sent the Son to die for you and your sins so that you could experience freedom to the fullest! Believe in Christ's death and resurrection (which sealed the work done on the cross) for your salvation and the forgiveness of sins! Amen! God loves you all! The Father sent the Son to die for you and your sins so that you could experience freedom to the fullest! Believe in Christ's death and resurrection (which sealed the work done on the cross) for your salvation and the forgiveness of sins! Amen! God bless you all, I will keep you in my prayers!!!!!!
Beethoven is still deaf
@@Horizon_Sounds But not tone deaf. He knew in his head how his compositions sounded.
No @@MRVIDEOMASTER-yw1qw
I just love how excited he is, makes me pumped for chords ❤❤❤
Been producing for about 6 month and I just found this channel. What a goldmine. Loving these videos Alex, keep it up!
He got me cracking up!! Its like the tik tok where the guy is like “where do we put the semi circle, thats right sqaure hole” but hes like “how are ganna make it more emotional, thats right were gonna take the 3 note and raise it an octave.”
“BuT wE nEeD to ExTrAcT MaXiMuM eMotIoNs…. sO wErE gOnNa TaKe ThE 3…. uP aN oCtAvE”
Don’t forget your pedal tones!
Bach hated this little trick!
I am no musician but I know that I need to raise those thirds up an octave
5:08 🤣💚 8:36 that's not aggressive wth xD
@@AndreasDelleske You mean johann sebastian bach? Lol
These tracks are amazing quality compared to all other KZhead music production videos I’ve seen.
Let’s all agree that this guy is straight from heaven. He is meant for this. Not even school can teach you this.
Your use of tools to make those vocals for the "feel good" chords sound so well together is amazing and inspiring.
I was wondering how he did that. Anyone know?
@@RS-kc8ge pitch corrector, reverb, autotune
@@CGJero pretty sure he did more than that but it's a good explaination
@@FranciscoGonzalez-qh5zd I'm sure he did. I'm not very good with effects to be honest, I'm kind of a new producer 😅
@@RS-kc8ge Your voice, auto-tune, reverb, distortion, surgical EQ, and compression. I tried this with bandlab, everything is for free, you don't need to buy expensive sht ALSO, ALMOST FORGOT I'M PRETTY SURE HE ALSO USED AN EFFECT PLUGIN CALLED "LITTLE ALTERBOY"
love how this video for everyone doesnt matter the daw youre using bc youre teaching thought process and teaching how to apply theory in a understandable way thanks bro
Every single chord pattern hit my heart and made me cry just because they are all beautiful
Alex, as a relative beginner my chord progressions tend to be fairly mundane. However, I occasionally surprise myself. Recently I made something beautiful and honestly, my first thought was "Yeah.... Alex would be proud of me for that". So thank you for sharing your passion.
This guy is so under-appreciated. Every video is gold.
Yeah comedy gold
That is TEEEEEENSEEE!!! I love this guy, his content made me at LEAST 20% better :)
I’ve been waiting for a solid, simple video like this for years. Thank you 🙏
That moving the 3rd is brilliant. Thanks😁👍🎹🎸
Finally, music theory that actually theorizes about music! I have to have more of this! An entire series' worth of increasingly complex chord progressions and relative intervals that can communicate a myriad of different emotions and mindsets! I want to narrate a character's entire life story and characterize their personality through their leitmotif and theme music alone!
As a person who composes music on a mobile device, these chord progressions, and your methods of alternating basic chords into advanced ones have helped me improved I would love to try these progressions and emotional chords one day.
What app
@@charlieappleby9236 probably FL mobile, that's what I use
@@charlieappleby9236FL Mobile. Same app I use.
Alex, As always mate you blow us away with how easy you make things look. I'm not too bad on Chord Progressions but then I watch something like this you do Every time and think WOW, and Logic is back open trying new Chord emotions in different ways. You are certainly the BEST online tutor I know of when it comes down to Emotions with Chord Progressions. Keep up the good work Bro!!
You’re a pro at finding beats to not care at all about throwing away. Not at all a diss. Great advice
How isn’t that a diss
Much love and respect to you and your channel Alex Rome.
I'm not entirely sure I'll be composing EDM, but I have fallen in love with what you do with third notes! I've heard this chord-voicing in songs a billion times but couldn't decipher how they did that until watching this video. Thanks! Have a like!
As I understand it, spread triads - with one of the notes (not necessarily the actual third, because you can raise the middle note of any inversion, like 351 becomes 315) raised up an octave - was popularised by film soundtrack composers when they first used DAWs. In the early days of sequencers, programmers were advised to write patterns that "a real pianist would play". You'd keep the three or four notes of a chord all within the reach of the fingers of one hand. But the cinematic sound of spread triads eventually crossed over to EDM and pop, as modern producers aren't making "humanly possible" piano music. The technology (piano rolls in DAWs) encouraged experimentation and whole new chord voicings. For younger audiences (people born after 1995, say) spread voicings sound "normal", but for older people who grew up on music played by hand (on guitars, pianos and early synths), these sort of voicings are part of the reason why modern pop and EDM tunes sound weird or bad. When an average person says "I don't like modern music", it's often because it's literally written differently to older stuff, with the same basic chords, but unfamiliar voicings.
@@AutPen38 really interesting insight into one of the differences of modern and older music, thank you
I must be an anomaly, I actually got into EDM at 52 years old..... @@AutPen38
You make capturing these emotions look so easy. This is seriously impressive.
They all sound the same to me
Holy shit I've been attending music classes as a kid and I hated it because for me it never seemed like we did anything interesting, this video is so freaking helpful that it's actually unreal
I want to express my gratitude for providing such amazing and emotional chord progressions and wonderful video. They incredibly sound great! I want take them in my composition. Thanks again.
Man I dont think I've ever commented on a KZhead channel before. But you are just so f'in good like I honestly am not sure why you arent famous and millionaire. Your music deserves that man. You have been my pop music hero, showing me so many cool writing elements which ultimately got me into Berklee Songwriting major. Such an inspiration man. You have A LOT to be proud of.
I like your comments and I'm new here. can we be friends?
My guyyyyyy! I feel so inspired to write music after watching this video. I had never thought to take the third up an octave or to repeat the pedal tone on the tonic.
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Alex, this is absolutely beautiful! As a guitar player and singer I learned so much from your work! So thank you man! Cheers from Brazil!
I just found your channel today and I'm in love with your videos and teaching methods. Much love and respect to you.
Alex , your video is awesome. You show me visually how music gives me different feels. I am a musician and play Bluegrass by ear and never learned music theory, so your video SHOWS me on your computer screen how this happens to me. Movie music scores can instantly make my eyes well up or extremely happy, and then if you add it to corresponding video of a scene on screen it magnifies the emotions made by the accompanying music. Thank you for this video. I love your scientific take on it!
I just want to let you know that you’re my favorite KZheadr. Every upload greatly helps me out.
that last song actually sounds so good
this was a game changer for me! helped me solve a ton of hindrances in music production and helped me get started on those ideas stuck in my head! THANKS A TON!!
That euphoric beat is amazing
I got a fever … and the only thing that can cure it…. Is to put the 3rds up an octave .
Thank you im new to making music struggles with piano you explained it well thank you
Hey I just wanted to say this video is straight foward and so good. I've been wanting to get back to recording music and this is the video I needed. Thank you so much. You're an inspirstion.
Thank you man, first time seeing your vid and instantly subbed.. No added bs, direct application, clear examples and most of all humble.. You inspire me to write songs.. Again, thank you so much Alex 🙏🙏🙏
glad you found this man
same bro
I swear the best chord progressions is has the 6, 7, 1, in it. It just sounds so good and you can expand on it so much
I’ve been producing for 6 years and thought I knew everything, ngl this video humbled me. Amazing tips and chord progressions, these are dope!
I love doing melodies, drums, fx and all the stuff but always struggle and end up being stuck while doing chords. This helped a lot, thank you
i can make chord progressions easy but melodies wont come to me for my life
@@davidortega6054 humming and recording melodies beforehand is often the easiest and most natural way if you cannot play an instrument. Just record it and translate it via ear into your midi sampler. Given you already got chords it's pretty easy once your ear can translate the notes
I've never produced music before but I've always been fascinated by it.
Hopefully someday I can learn how to be a great producer.
Thanks for your advice man, roger. Now I can be sing my patterns with my different emotions something I didn't know how to do before, you are an excellent master.
Relaxed/chilled,with no percussion sounds like it could be used as either a score in a movie scene or used in credits
Alex, you’re inspiring me to write music again. Thank you for all that you have done and will do 🙏🏽
This!
Me to!
Its crazy how much you can learn from your chords videos and how I can see the type of chords other artists use. For example @ 11:48 sounds like the opening to Sigma - Nobody to love
Pretty sure those are straight up the opening chords lol, i was thinking the exact same thing and already finished the melody in my head 😂
Wow just come up with a cracking bassline and melody for the first Chord pattern. Loving this !
this is a stunning,brilliantly presented video. wow. thank you so much. I've been writing songs for 25 years, and never thought of any of these ideas. thank you again. Diamond
The most somber and melancholy sounding chord progression I’ve ever heard was the battlestar sonatica by bear mccreary. I actually fell in love with the song so much I forced myself to learn it on piano having no knowledge in the piano whatsoever. It was very difficult to learn that as my first song.
Learning battlestar sonata off the bat without prior knowledge/experience of piano/music? Tell me how long it took you to do it. That's some dedication right there and I respect that
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thank you alex, i've been on a three day dry spell of not making tracks but this video inspired me to finish something, didn't end up using the chords tho lol but your enthusiasm for music always gets me into the mood to make something c:
You need to be more inspired. Writing while not inspired shows
@The Dude wow that was un called for, whatever dude. Trying leave a friendly comment and then you just come out of nowhere with "you need to be more inspired" like think before you comment, you don't know my story and I'm very uninterested in knowing yours, have a nice life my dude.
This is THE presentation worth watching for writing chord progressions- THANKS!
i don’t know much about how music is made but this was very informative! the way you explained and showed it was easy to understand!
Hey Alex, hust a tip. In Ableton you can select a note en press: Shift+Arrow Up. This command does the octave up thing.(or octave down) So you don't have to drag them up. Just a little hack that is so nice once you know about it. Idk if it works in others DAWs.
He knows, but he wants you to see when and how he drags the notes
Confusingly, in FLS, I think it's CTRL+up for an octave jump. SHIFT+up only moves up a semitone. I think Alex is using Logic now and that presumably uses a similar shortcut. Weirdo Apple users probably use the OPTION key or something, like the committed mentalists they are.
@@AutPen38option shift arrow 🤪
I've always wondered why my chords never sounded right. This video was a major help, I'll make sure to put this stuff to practice.
A major AND a minor help!
@@AndreasDelleske It doesn't cover music theory but gives some chords patterns, and although I like to write them, using this pattern is not a bad thing... I mean at the end of the day the progressions are limited, so using premade ones that you already know how they sound it's not the end of the world
Loving how I can listen to these patterns and immediately think of a song/artist it sounds like
The last one is so my style of beat, I like it
bro casually switched between fl Ableton and logic and thought we wouldn't notice
I have never seen music theory so so easy explained and how you verbalize all the chords so easy with perfect examples. Better then every music teacher ever Great video 💯💯💯
He gets the theory very wrong, even as he presents the emotion very well.
I wouldn't define 'minor more serious' 'major more uplifting', as music theory. Nor would I define pedal tones or simple pads as revelatory. This problem with copy and paste music isn't that anyone can do it, the problem is that people start thinking they're musicians when they don't even know how to play an instrument.
music teachers will explain how intervals work so you can build your own chord progressions instead of copying stuff
Its crazy to see how easy it is to make the music. Great vid.
Not sure why some of your chord progressions, all in key, have both sharps and flats? 1) should be Bbm/Cb/Db/Ebm. 4) should be Gm/F/Cm/Eb 7) should be Gm/Eb/Cm (which has an Eb in it too). The scale for 4) and 7) is the Gm scale: G A Bb C D Eb F G (also the Bb major scale.
And no one even made him use those random keys, he could’ve made everything in C major or A minor and bypassed the whole issue
@@iansiegler1036Issue?
He also said a 7 chord is just a regular major I was pretty confused. I mean that’s some Jeff tweedy kinda mixing and matching lol. If anything you’re going G A B I would say you’re in D with a major 6 (Jeff tweedy central)
Because in b flat the G minor scale is really chalk3d up major C
Why are you wearing a waffle maker on your head?
GOLD
😂😂😂
The best comment
Average band nerd (I’m wearing a microwave on my head)
Oh, I wish I had this waffle maker. The way it sounds totally makes up for the looks
The little tip explaining the terminology is really nice and helpful. I don't see that enough in tutorial videos.
understanding this so well must make music production so much fun and it would be endless. whatever vibe you're going for you can find it. i need to get a better grasp of chord progressions. thanks for the help
Dude amazing. The vocals at 1:10 are fire. You should finish that song !
Yup damn amazing
What is the song name or kit
Yo!! Señor Rome, I just wanted to say thank you for creating this amazing video, I was struggling with some progressions and you gave me a lot of ideas, you got yourself a new suscriber and I'm thinking on joining that bootcamp for sure. THANKS!!
This is the most useful chord video I've seen. Everything is super applicable.
5:54 bro what the f, my volume was max
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@@MATTTHEGENERICOr/suddenlycaralho. Quer o que no print?
I don't really learn much from watching these videos anymore, but I LOVE the fact that I can still obtain inspiration when I'm running dry. Thanks for posting these Alex! 🤘
yo this was BEYONDDDDD amazing. super detailed, saucey, excellent
defiantly my go to at a party jam sess bust out some progessions man like Alex said and make it your own im responcwable for my own goodness
In summary, put 3rd up an octave
6:00 Was Heaven!!!! I wish this was a full song. Nobody can tell me that this part wasn't FIRE! 🔥 What software did you use?
Fax does anyone know similar songs
i think you mean 5:53
@@Lintee_Second haha yes 👍
@@phlegm5596 fr, I'm dying to find a similar song. I wish I could even download the clip. It is so good🤩
@@phlegm5596 Dreams - Gryffin uses the same 6371 progression in C minor, i believe and also has that same melodic house vibe to it.
Damn this is actually helping a lot! Made my first track with some actual feel, more feel than my others with just chords. Used the chill followed by a sorrow with some calm synths.
man i cant thank u enuf for showing me the way to generate creativity at will... u r an inspiration and my mentor for my home studio efforts started almost 2 years ago... i used to stare at a blank screen... now i cant keep up with the ideas flowing cuz u unblocked my brain... i like your teaching style too... generous, educated. experienced, talented... ur methods are just great and so SIMPLE!!!... i would have paid big bux for what u taught me... but i got it fer nuttin... i hope u r not just giving it away and make a good income cuz u deserve it... um look healthy so i m assuming... dont wanna be a jack but had to let you know that u have a good vibe in the universe and what goes around... thanks for being there!
Hey quick question, do I take the 3rd up an octave? All in fun, thanks for an awesome video brother definitely will apply this to my future progressions! The tone coming from these chords sound awesome.
lol - great video but i did laugh at every one having the emotion drawn out by octaving up the third no matter the emotion targeted
It doesn't matter what key you use, the emotion comes from the relative change in intervals between chords.
Yes, but key (and even more so register) does affect the perception as well. Timbre matters quite a bit too. All of these things play with each other in different ways. A piano is not tuned to perfect equal temperament across its entire range, so both register and key matter quite a bit.
@@badbeardbill9956 I think they matter a little bit. Keys only matter by virtue of it changing register so sure register matters, but the nuance of the range of emotions that a register change influences is massively limited relative to a scale or modal change. Put two of the same progressions a semitone apart and they will pretty much convey the same emotion.
@@Ndo01 completely agree, you mention emotion expressed relative to the scale or modal change, besides these, how would one go about learning to express emotion?
@@yungawkward303 the harmony and melody from the scales/modes is going to convey 90% of the emotion. Besides those, you can play with tempo, rhythm, instrumentation, timbre, and articulation.
i love this and i am gonna try this
dude don't stop, this is amazing
I have to be honest. I try to start making songs in different ways but somehow it doesn’t sound as musical or emotional as I want. I should use these tutorials as the main basics to start with and then produce the tracks and write lyrics. I make music to support my voice but when the music is good, the lyrics and vocal melodies come naturally. I promise I’ll never forget these instructions ever! ❤
Just be creative? It’s easy
1:35 basic lyidan
Extracting MAXIMAL Emotion 🤘
Ohhh thank you!!!! You are amazing, feel the same excitement behind my daw:)
6:05 sounds like a youtube intro
Generic edm
I was thinking the same thing hahah ha
2:37 so basically every chainsmoker song
Dude. This video is the meaning of life. Thank you so much. I learned a lot and i will make souls melt.
Sir, you are awesome!
I wonder if he’s gonna put the 3rd up an octave?
I'm really wondering too, he never does that
I don't think you really nailed most of these because of a strict adherence to a certain formula. Most of these are actually very adjacent, and with emotion its the contrast that makes it felt. How many people would actually accurately guess the intended emotions assigned to these if the goal was not stated beforehand? Granted each of these progressions is perfectly functional and evocative, just not nearly with the level of variance you may expect if you read the given line-up of feelings.
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beautiful tutorial exactly what i need
Between scaler 2 and the new ai chord generator in piano roll I've been churning out songs left and right. Appreciate this vid bro
Что за песня 8:39 ?
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Be carefull with the chord cipher... there are different moments when you mention some chords with its enharmonical name, and those chords don't really belong to the scale. For example: in the scale of G minor, you said: Gm Cm Bb and D#, this is a tonality that uses flat notes, in this case the last chord (6th grade) is a Eb, not a D#. The sharp note here can be a F# if you ar in an harmonic minor scale, or different notes that can be use as a chromatical resource.... but you cannot change the basic chords from a tonality, you're killing the musical lenguaje.
Thank you... This was driving me crazy with some of the chord progressions not staying within the scales. The 1st one should have Db and Eb. The 4th one should have Eb, the 7th one should have Eb, the 8th one should have Bb and Eb. This might confuse some people.
it's so crazy to me how a person who barely knows music theory can make a video about a few basic chord progressions and the comments will act like he's some music god
And who cares? They're the same chord regardless if what you call them, so as long as you're not teaching music theory, it doesn't matter.
It's not about ego, it's about to have a better comprehension of the function of each chord in a musical tonality, when tou realize that you can go even further away with your compositions and search new colours with different grade alterations. Everybody can make music in the way as they want, I'm just trying to give clarity to people who is learning musical theory, 'cause this chord cypher may confuse themselves if they're trying to get better tools to develop better and complex chords progressions. You don't have to cry, just learn.