Music Theory for Producers - EDM Chords: 1 Quick Trick for Spicing Them Up!

►► Download your free EDM Chord Bible here: http://bit.ly/2EpnpZo Here is 1 cool trick for spicing up your chord progressions… In this video, I quickly explain the notion of “borrowed” chords, and how you how you can use them in your chord progressions – in any genre. [[ You can enrol on my Music Theory for EDM Producers course here if you haven’t yet. Join the 100’s of producers who have seriously upped their skills: http://bit.ly/2A5ScWT ]] Ok, let’s do it. Here's what this video covers: 1. Diatonic Chords First off, we are going to write a simple chord progression using “diatonic” chords. Diatonic chords are simply chords that ONLY use the notes from within any given key. e.g. C Major has the notes: C,D,E,F,G,A,B. So the diatonic chords of C Major, therefore, only use those notes. The trouble is, that’s quite limiting, so how to we use OTHER chords? Well, one way is simply to “borrow” them from what’s known as the “parallel” key. What’s that then? It’s this: 2. Parallel Keys A parallel key is simply the minor or major counterpart of the key you’re working in. In the example of C Major, the parallel key would be C Minor. If you are writing in G minor, the parallel key would be G major. Easy. So how do we borrow chords? 3. Borrowing Chords If you have the diatonic chords of the key in which you’re working, you can simply borrow the diatonic chords from the parallel key, too. This means you aren’t stuck to just using the notes from C major, for example. You can also borrow chords from C minor. A simple way to look it at this is just to move the 3rd note in whichever chord in your progression that you want, either up or down a semitone (the shortest distance between two notes). This is an easy way to make some minor, and some major. Then, when you start adding in sus4 chords and the, too, you quickly shake things up and break out from the standard chord progressions. Hope you like! Please share and subscribe if you dig :) You can also check out my website here: https://www.edmtips.com And catch me on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/EDMtipsOfficial/ NOTE from video: Natural minor scale intervals are: Root Note -- 2 (half-steps) -- 1 -- 2 -- 2 -- 1 -- 2 -- 2 Major scale intervals are: Root Note (or Tonic) -- 2 (half-steps) -- 2 -- 1 -- 2 -- 2 -- 2 -- 1 ►► My ENTIRE Music and Video Equipment: My Audio Gear: Audio Interface: Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 https://geni.us/AudioInterface Monitors: Behringer Truth B2031A https://geni.us/Monitors Headphones: Sennheiser HD 650 https://geni.us/MyHeadphones Microphone: sE X1 S Studio Bundle https://geni.us/MicrophoneX1 Microphone: Rode NT-USB https://geni.us/MicrophoneRode Computer: Macbook Pro https://geni.us/MacBookPro16GB My Video Gear: WebCam: Logitech Brio 4K https://geni.us/ProWebcam Studio Lighting: Neewer Pack https://geni.us/NeewerLightStand2 My Plugins: https://bit.ly/2K4eFHZ #EDM #chords #ableton