[url=]I am trying to make melodic progressive house and I can´t figure out the right chord progressions I always come with something uninspired or not so great so I want a little help from you guys how to these guys always make those beautifull chord progressions?how many notes to use in the chords ?diatonic triads sevenths…have tried almost everything but couldnt figure it out …here are some examples of some of my favorite artists: br
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsjBgGGNCZQbr
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urbe8fDeEI4br
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWlLXTf0PP4
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Ive had alot of troubles with this myself, done alot of research and what i found was most progressive house chords use what is known as ostinato google it and I’m sure something will come up, attack magazine have a really good tutorial on it, also you need to layer alot of synths to get that epic sound its trial and error really, when you are happy with the layered synths, then pan certain synths to the left and right get it sounding stereo as **** and epic, then make a send channel with some big reverb and send all the channels to it to try and make it sound like its in the same room, hope this helps matebr
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cheers
thanks for your advice I check the attack magazine website and I saw the ostinato tutorial.but ostinato is for the melodies( single notes) what I am asking is the main chords in those tracks ( the lead chords) .they dont use lots of synths mate its just chords of life preset from zeta 2 or some sylenth our massive close preset .I am missing the notes not the sound part…
have you looked into any music theory stuff on chord progressions? I think if you understand chord scales and understand the movement throughout the scale it could help
yes I know the chords from the scale and that stuff but looks like nothing works maybe I really suck at chord progressions listening to some dinka mango lessov tracks and how amazing progressions they make makes me think 2 things I am missing something or I definitly suck XD
It really is just practise practise practise mate. Start with a bar with just a series of chords in the standard triad in your chosen scale. br
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So, have the midi notes be 2 16ths long, separate them with a 16th space. Listen to it, get a feel for it, then double the bar and duplicate the pattern into the second bar. Now, move one of the series of notes in the second chord (so if you’re in Cm, try moving the all the C notes or all the D# notes etc) set. Move them around till you like what you hear. Duplicate again, move another of the series of the same note in the 3rd bar and so on.br
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It’s really just a case of experimenting with note placement in the scale and with rhythm - or spacing between the triads.br
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You can always use Ableton’s new Midi to Harmony feature to analyse the chords in some of your favourite artist’s tracks to see what they’re doing. Or, buy a sample pack of midi progressions like this onebr
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[url]http://www.soundstosample.com/info/Sounds_To_Sample/Progressive_MIDI_Melodics_3/5042#[/url]br
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Something like that will help you look and see what others are doing .
thanks jonsloan!great tips indeed! didnt know about the harmony to midi in ableton 9 I am using suite 8 not enough money to upgrade but I am gonna try the trial version 
It´s incredible how we live users have to pay 250 € to have live 9 those guys just want to make money and then they blame people for making ilegal downloads …