I figured out the shapes for different chords and inversions, but you explaining the grid gave me a tangible way to visualize the keys. You earned your like Sir!
Unreal job! I have had Push2 for years and I have always wanted to actually learn proper chord 'theory' on the Push. Now I understand it more! Thank you
This is one of the best explanations of how to set-up and play chords on Ableton. Thanks for this. I am curious how it would be set up using the Chord MIDI Effects.
Great vid, music theory is so simplified when playing on pushes grid with only scale notes available, I played guitar for years and was always mystified by this stuff.
This is great man! I own push and was looking for some midi keyboard to play as I thought pads might be too tricky. This video helped me very much, some money saved and I learned a lot!. Thanks!
Wow, this is a powerful tutorial for me. I am in the middle on understanding music theory and this was very helpful understanding music theory along with understanding how Push works. Thank you and please post more videos like this.
Omfg 😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍. Dude u did a great job in this toturial. Freaky amazing. Love it love it. I finally get it with the pads. I could never figure out the relations of the pads to the keys. Tnx to this video u have created a Push Monster still learning to crack open the pandorabox😈😈😈😈😈😈🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿
there's a really handy tool in the midi effects category called the midi monitor which will display a little keyboard and also tell you what chord you're currently playing only bummer is that it's not able to display this information on the push itself
Thank you for the explanation of chord formations. I came from the guitar family and know very little about keyboards and have always wanted to learn to play. I like the idea of Push 2 and how it is laid out. It makes better since to me but I guess if you are from the keyboard family then Push 2 would be hard to get used to. I purchased the Push 2 and it is supposed to be here today and I can't wait to get started learning with it. Your tutorial will help me tremendously. Thank you for sharing. You have a new subscriber now.
very helpful, thanks! Wasn't so sure about how it made it easy to refer back to what the chord was supposed to be (where you relate it back to the root, but I am fairly clueless anyway.) Thanks for the primer. Subscribing and diving in to see if you did more...
Thanks for the kind words!. I've been learning piano for a year now, but honestly, I always have the channel on the back of my head "I need to upload another video", and I work fulltime as a software engineer. But comments like these help, maybe I can do a follow up within chromatic mode (I've been improving on my music theory). I've been making some Lo-Fi chasing those nice 7th chords sounds. Thanks!
@@WasabiNoise no wonder you can figure out the push 2 as an instrument! I play piano but i love ableton! its great for performing as a looping artist and the push 2 helps the work flow! Saying hi from Canada
I’m glad it was useful! Actually the Push looks like a guitar in standard tuning, this also helped me a lot. Each row goes in 4ths, like the strings of a guitar.
This was helpful, thanks. Seems weird, that minors, diminisheds are the sam shape as majors ... ? I take it the 'in key' mode means it is 'quantized' (in a pitch sense) to whatever key it is set to. So, you don't think about notes, you need think about scle degrees - and 'trust the machine to know whether than scale degree should be major or minor'? Seems like it would be harder for someone who is used to theory on a keyboard (to whom it's counter-intuitive to use the same shape for major, minor and diminished!). I'm just looking at trying out a push (or launchpad pro), so this has been insightful. Cheers!
I will likely be getting a Push I do have some hard synths. Using PC Have a small keystep. So I've looked into an Oxygen, Launchkey, and some Arturia stuff, but don't know if I will need all those options if I have a Push. I like the keystep pro for controlling hard synths and it's got 4 tracks, however maybe that just needs to be a separate setup. Should I just get a nicer 49 or so midi keyboard without all the pads and such? Considering I will have a Push? Is it redundant to have a full featured midi keyboard along side the Push Should I get a fully featured midi keyboard and hold off on the Push? Certainly want something that works good in Ableton because I'm still learning it. I'm worried about these keyboards, some say pitch wheels not accurate, some say faders are horrible and so on.... Some have endless knobs, some don't, is that a major flaw? With a regular midi keyboard and a Push, what do you do about faders? So yeah I gotta upgrade from lite to suite, but need to know where to put my money Suite first, or Suite with Push package, or wait for possible Push 3, or fully functional keyboard now and Suite? Maybe a cool hard synth keyboard that also has midi, or with that take me away from nice integration with Ableton? If i do get full function midi keyboard i can pry go up to 500 bucks, but if the ones like oxygen are good, then fine, I just don't want crummy stuff, but I'm also not a baller. Any help thanks....
Hello. Thanks for sharing. Push is kind of... It reminds me a Janko keyboard layout in some way. Maybe in terms of possibility of easy acsess to very hard(wide) chord shapes. The only drawback of this system, that you are locked within one scale and one key when playing live. If you start to switch scales(modes) you will be lost quickly I think. I am trying to get used to this scheme, but I want to master all the harmonic possibilities and I don't want to lock myself. Of course you can switch scales and keys, but you cannot do this on a fly. Any thoughts about that? I mean I want something stable like this C major layout to rely on... like guitar frets. And these blue pads give me that feeling of white dots on a fretboard, I am starting to see those numbers very quick, but as soon as I want to switch to another mode(dorian, myxolidian) or change the key, my brain starts to boil. Sorry, English is not my native language. I hope I was clear.
Thanks for your comment! I guess it all depends on what you are used to. I agree with you that the standard keyboard makes a lot of sense and it's normal to feel that a keyboard is a better solution. I enjoyed studying the Push way because it reinforced some of the theory I learned in the past. I also come from guitar, in fact, if you play the chromatic scale, Push comes closer to the guitar than the keyboard, like a fret.
With the key locked in, every single pad is in key so you don't have to worry about hitting a wrong note. And the format of the pads makes it easier to learn chords by shape. Every major chord is the same hand shape, every minor chord is different from the major chord but all the minor chords have the same shape. Unlike piano where Dminor D#minor and Dbminor all have different finger shapes.
tom kent its "easier" in the sense that all the it out of key notes are unavailable but it's also limited because you can play anything chromatic or "passing tones" that technically aren't in key but still work as a transition. You hear this a lot in blues and jazz.
The major difference for me is that I don’t have to think about different shapes when composing in keys other that C major. It’s always the same. Since I am not a keyboard player, playing in a key other than C major would require considerable thought when composing chords. If playing in other keys feels the same to you as C major then I could see why the keyboard is just as good of a option.
Господи если б я раньше знал какой это гемор по сравнению с мк3!!! На мк3 для аккордов и генерации последовательности есть Специальная Кнопочка!! Chords !!! . кому-то пофиг а мне по джазу это Очень надо.
Push2 is the best thing I ever bought. I started on bass guitar, and used the chromatic mode on push 2 for a long time since the layout is the same. Eventually I started to understand scales and chords within those scales for what they really are, rather than some abstract unknowable thing. The patterns are just there to see. It's like jacking into the matrix.
Thanks for making this. I’ve been exploring Nashville note system (NNS) and the flexibility it offers for changing key. Been playing with NNS on guitar and even using capo it is a bit challenging to do with all keys. Got to thinking, “I should try NNS with Push in this mode you’re showing so well. I could toggle to a different key and easily play a 1 4 5 1 progression. And learning some inversions this way would also be easier than on guitar.
THE BEST VIDEO WITH THE PUSH 2!!!!!!! We just purchased the push and have live standard and will eventually upgrade to the suite! This video is jackpot for us and we needed this badly! Great explantation and details! Thank you so much for making it easy!
When learning chord changes and shapes do you think in terms of numbers instead of notes? Like don't think of a progression as C-ami-F-G but I-vi-IV-V? Because those shapes can work with any key, right? When you played the first C chord I instantly thought if you moved the 5th or G to A you would have an ami second inversion. That one note change would always give you a I-vi change. I'm starting to see the light. Thanks!
Why is divided into a square of 9 pads with 3 pads in each row instead of a square of 16 pads with four pads per row? That’s what confuses me and keeps me from knowing where to go next
I was confused about this too, so I watched some other videos to clarify, but they did not explain it unfortunately, then I came across this one: ruclips.net/video/G4AMycvuDJo/видео.html and the answer is it's because the layout is set in 4ths (sound pitch of one pad above is one 4th above), but you can change it to 3rds or sequent.
Yes it's possible but the shapes differ a little bit. Actually, in chromatic mode you can tell what type of chord you are playing because of the shape. In scale mode you can't tell the chord type by looking at the shape (like, major vs minor triad chord).
@@WasabiNoise Thanks a lot for your answer however I'm afraid i can't wrap my head around it? the alternative to chromatic would be "in key" and there you are limited to the corresponding chord. what I meant to say is that going chromatic in any other scale/key but major C would be difficult since it will differ completely from a piano black-white keys grid. however this set-up is pretty difficult to jam on unless you know piano chords super well and in that case a keyboard would just be a lot easier right? i was wondering wether there is an alternative to that. like changing the scale from one to another every four bars?
@@seranes_silence In my video, I had music producers in mind, but I get your point. Push’s “In key” mode allows you to play any chord inside that key. In my mind this is like using roman numerals, where you play I - ii - iii - IV - V - vi vii° on major scales. That means that you can put any tonic on a major scale and these numerals will always be true. If you go to “chromatic” mode, this is held true as long as you follow the “lights”, if you play 1-3-5 lights you are playing a simple triad inside that key. If you are used to the keyboard layout of having C major as white and accidentals as black, then yeah, this system can become very hard to follow for jamming purposes. I guess my first instrument was the guitar, so I never had this C major shape in mind but the other way around, “shapes” that represent scales. Thanks for sharing, I think it’s very interesting to know how others think about these systems. I’m also thinking of making a similar video on the piano layout, but again, this is more oriented to music producers than pianists or live musicians (although everything can help).
This is the first video to actually learn something about push's scale system in a structured way. Thanks a lot for that!
I figured out the shapes for different chords and inversions, but you explaining the grid gave me a tangible way to visualize the keys. You earned your like Sir!
Thanks this is the rosetta stone for push chords.
Unreal job! I have had Push2 for years and I have always wanted to actually learn proper chord 'theory' on the Push. Now I understand it more! Thank you
It’s so cool when you can see it. Thanks for the comment!
This is one of the best explanations of how to set-up and play chords on Ableton. Thanks for this. I am curious how it would be set up using the Chord MIDI Effects.
Great vid, music theory is so simplified when playing on pushes grid with only scale notes available, I played guitar for years and was always mystified by this stuff.
This really makes me wanna get a push. If I do I’m definitely gonna come back to this video
Thanks!! 😊
The Fourth, The Fifth,
The Minor Fall, The Major Lift
The baffled king composing Hallelujah
Yeah, I sang it too.
This is great man! I own push and was looking for some midi keyboard to play as I thought pads might be too tricky. This video helped me very much, some money saved and I learned a lot!. Thanks!
excellent tutorial
Ableton needs to hire you, my friend...Amazing info here.
A square!!! I had never thought about it, everything is much clearer now! thanks!
It can be fun to play around in the in key mode. I need that chromatic though.
Very helpful , thank you!
Really great tutorial! You're easy to follow and you explain concepts well. Big up
ABSOLUTELY WHOA 😳. Dude this was crazy good. GREAT EXPLANATION!!!
Glad it helped!
super helpful thanks brah
Excellent explanation of how to think about the Push pads. Thank you for making it. Subbed.
Wow, this is a powerful tutorial for me. I am in the middle on understanding music theory and this was very helpful understanding music theory along with understanding how Push works. Thank you and please post more videos like this.
This is super brilliant. Proper good work mate!
Excellent tutorial that makes the theory easy to understand too
Thank you so much for this video. You've made a great tutorial for Push beginners like me.
Excellent!
Many thanks!
本当に面白い！ありがとうございます！！
いいですよ ☺️
This changed the way I produce music, thank you so much!
Happy to help!!
this is a fantastic video! thanks for the breakdown - i was confused by the 4th's layout on the push
I'm glad it was helpful! It can also help if you play guitar, as it goes in 4ths as well (but the B string).
Best Tutorial on youtube regarding the Push2. Thanks!!
Months of searching for a video showing a way to visualize chords on Push 2, thanks! I have hope for myself. Ha
Good video that help me how to play chords on my push 2. I also play the guitar. Take care!
don't have ableton push, but still on launchpad X i can do same chords like here... thank you soo much for this tutorial!
Thanks for the comment! I will have this in mind if I make more videos about the layout.
great, thanks a lot!
I use 1-3-5 in horizontal line, starting in the left marked note, from down to up. Great video !
Thanks! Yeah! there's no right or wrong!
Great! This is super clear.
This is super helpful! Thank you very much
Super cool. Very helpful techniques
I just got one of these and played around with major cords...this is just what I was looking for. Thanks for the video, subscribed. :)
Thnx!
Omfg 😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍. Dude u did a great job in this toturial. Freaky amazing. Love it love it. I finally get it with the pads. I could never figure out the relations of the pads to the keys. Tnx to this video u have created a Push Monster still learning to crack open the pandorabox😈😈😈😈😈😈🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿
Thanks!!!! I’m glad it was useful!!!!
WasabiNoise Ableton should use ur video in their playlist tutorials.
This is gold.
there's a really handy tool in the midi effects category called the midi monitor which will display a little keyboard and also tell you what chord you're currently playing only bummer is that it's not able to display this information on the push itself
Dope shit!
Love it. Great video. Thanks
Good one, man, thanks!
Good editing. Helps a lot to understand.
Honestly thank you.
Thanks for watching!
Thank you for the explanation of chord formations. I came from the guitar family and know very little about keyboards and have always wanted to learn to play. I like the idea of Push 2 and how it is laid out. It makes better since to me but I guess if you are from the keyboard family then Push 2 would be hard to get used to. I purchased the Push 2 and it is supposed to be here today and I can't wait to get started learning with it. Your tutorial will help me tremendously. Thank you for sharing. You have a new subscriber now.
Thanks, hope it arrives today so you can start playing with it and start making awesome music :D
It's supposed to be here today! :) I can't wait much longer. lol
Thank you. I get better understanding from your tutorial. I will try to follow your suggestion.
Awesome tutorial thank you! I wish someone would make a chord shape tutorial on piano that’s this easy to understand :p
Thank you for watching. I've been thinking about this and try to approach it in a different way than in other videos. Hopeful I can do it soon.
Very helpful vid! thanx!
this is brilliant! great job brother! thank you!!
Thank you, great Tutorial !!!!!
Really helpful
unveiled a mystery for me 🙏 thank you💙
Thanks for sharing this!
u r the future
Thanks, this helps alot!
Great video sir
Thank you for the help
very helpful, thanks! Wasn't so sure about how it made it easy to refer back to what the chord was supposed to be (where you relate it back to the root, but I am fairly clueless anyway.) Thanks for the primer. Subscribing and diving in to see if you did more...
Thanks, exactly what I needed, help to open the eyes.
this is great stuff why did you stop posting man!
Thanks for the kind words!. I've been learning piano for a year now, but honestly, I always have the channel on the back of my head "I need to upload another video", and I work fulltime as a software engineer. But comments like these help, maybe I can do a follow up within chromatic mode (I've been improving on my music theory). I've been making some Lo-Fi chasing those nice 7th chords sounds. Thanks!
@@WasabiNoise no wonder you can figure out the push 2 as an instrument! I play piano but i love ableton! its great for performing as a looping artist and the push 2 helps the work flow! Saying hi from Canada
great job brother..much appreciated!
So the left side of the push is a mirror to allow you to hit all those different chords without changing shapes? Pretty smart
awesome
This helps me a lot. I use piano and guitar in my music. Thank you.
I’m glad it was useful! Actually the Push looks like a guitar in standard tuning, this also helped me a lot. Each row goes in 4ths, like the strings of a guitar.
Where can I obtain a visual resource like the piano scales you have at the top or a plug-in that will tell you the chord you are playing?
Hi, thank You very much for video! please let me know how do I get a keypad up onto my screen for comparing ?
okee, I found, You already answered! 🔥
ruclips.net/video/vjJ3khY11Dc/видео.html
thank you.......!!!
nice!
This was helpful, thanks. Seems weird, that minors, diminisheds are the sam shape as majors ... ? I take it the 'in key' mode means it is 'quantized' (in a pitch sense) to whatever key it is set to. So, you don't think about notes, you need think about scle degrees - and 'trust the machine to know whether than scale degree should be major or minor'? Seems like it would be harder for someone who is used to theory on a keyboard (to whom it's counter-intuitive to use the same shape for major, minor and diminished!). I'm just looking at trying out a push (or launchpad pro), so this has been insightful. Cheers!
Is there a way of doing this with just a novation launch pad ?
I will likely be getting a Push
I do have some hard synths.
Using PC
Have a small keystep.
So I've looked into an Oxygen, Launchkey, and some Arturia stuff, but don't know if I will need all those options if I have a Push.
I like the keystep pro for controlling hard synths and it's got 4 tracks, however maybe that just needs to be a separate setup.
Should I just get a nicer 49 or so midi keyboard without all the pads and such? Considering I will have a Push?
Is it redundant to have a full featured midi keyboard along side the Push
Should I get a fully featured midi keyboard and hold off on the Push?
Certainly want something that works good in Ableton because I'm still learning it.
I'm worried about these keyboards, some say pitch wheels not accurate, some say faders are horrible and so on....
Some have endless knobs, some don't, is that a major flaw?
With a regular midi keyboard and a Push, what do you do about faders?
So yeah I gotta upgrade from lite to suite, but need to know where to put my money
Suite first, or Suite with Push package, or wait for possible Push 3, or fully functional keyboard now and Suite?
Maybe a cool hard synth keyboard that also has midi, or with that take me away from nice integration with Ableton?
If i do get full function midi keyboard i can pry go up to 500 bucks, but if the ones like oxygen are good, then fine, I just don't want crummy stuff, but I'm also not a baller.
Any help thanks....
I think chromatic mode is better bc theres random difference in the pattern if it’s only in key
tutorial starts at 0:57
Rectangles :) but ty.
Ha! True 😅
Hello. Thanks for sharing. Push is kind of... It reminds me a Janko keyboard layout in some way. Maybe in terms of possibility of easy acsess to very hard(wide) chord shapes. The only drawback of this system, that you are locked within one scale and one key when playing live. If you start to switch scales(modes) you will be lost quickly I think. I am trying to get used to this scheme, but I want to master all the harmonic possibilities and I don't want to lock myself. Of course you can switch scales and keys, but you cannot do this on a fly. Any thoughts about that? I mean I want something stable like this C major layout to rely on... like guitar frets. And these blue pads give me that feeling of white dots on a fretboard, I am starting to see those numbers very quick, but as soon as I want to switch to another mode(dorian, myxolidian) or change the key, my brain starts to boil. Sorry, English is not my native language. I hope I was clear.
This is why I prefer the chromatic mode
this is partly why I created the Chord Player: ruclips.net/video/ip78LdnFoB4/видео.html
Hopefully it will help you as well
Wow
can you do one with launchpad????
Hey! I don't have one but I read that it has the same intervals, so the same shapes should apply.
@@WasabiNoise oh wow thanks for the info
I must be dense, but I don't see how it is easier to use push rather than a standard keyboard.
Thanks for your comment! I guess it all depends on what you are used to. I agree with you that the standard keyboard makes a lot of sense and it's normal to feel that a keyboard is a better solution. I enjoyed studying the Push way because it reinforced some of the theory I learned in the past. I also come from guitar, in fact, if you play the chromatic scale, Push comes closer to the guitar than the keyboard, like a fret.
With the key locked in, every single pad is in key so you don't have to worry about hitting a wrong note. And the format of the pads makes it easier to learn chords by shape. Every major chord is the same hand shape, every minor chord is different from the major chord but all the minor chords have the same shape. Unlike piano where Dminor D#minor and Dbminor all have different finger shapes.
Interesting. I'll go back to the tutorial and try and "see it".
tom kent its "easier" in the sense that all the it out of key notes are unavailable but it's also limited because you can play anything chromatic or "passing tones" that technically aren't in key but still work as a transition. You hear this a lot in blues and jazz.
The major difference for me is that I don’t have to think about different shapes when composing in keys other that C major. It’s always the same. Since I am not a keyboard player, playing in a key other than C major would require considerable thought when composing chords. If playing in other keys feels the same to you as C major then I could see why the keyboard is just as good of a option.
this is somewhat more simpler than a piano
"Always use your ears, I guess." lol
Haha
Господи если б я раньше знал какой это гемор по сравнению с мк3!!! На мк3 для аккордов и генерации последовательности есть Специальная Кнопочка!!
Chords !!! . кому-то пофиг а мне по джазу это Очень надо.
Ужас. На мк3 одним пальцем можно любые сложные аккорды играть, что ритмически намного удобнее.
Scaler will help us.
Thanks a lot for this video, very helpful!
this was fantastic, thx!
Push2 is the best thing I ever bought. I started on bass guitar, and used the chromatic mode on push 2 for a long time since the layout is the same. Eventually I started to understand scales and chords within those scales for what they really are, rather than some abstract unknowable thing. The patterns are just there to see. It's like jacking into the matrix.
Very helpful, thanks!
Amazing video, thanks for the explanations. Very well done. Cheers from Frankfurt, Laura
I have looking at Push videos for years and no one has ever explained
this in a comprehesible way. Great job!
Incredibly helpful video! You have a genuine understanding of teaching.
Thanks for making this. I’ve been exploring Nashville note system (NNS) and the flexibility it offers for changing key. Been playing with NNS on guitar and even using capo it is a bit challenging to do with all keys. Got to thinking, “I should try NNS with Push in this mode you’re showing so well. I could toggle to a different key and easily play a 1 4 5 1 progression. And learning some inversions this way would also be easier than on guitar.
THE BEST VIDEO WITH THE PUSH 2!!!!!!!
We just purchased the push and have live standard and will eventually upgrade to the suite!
This video is jackpot for us and we needed this badly!
Great explantation and details!
Thank you so much for making it easy!
When learning chord changes and shapes do you think in terms of numbers instead of notes? Like don't think of a progression as C-ami-F-G but I-vi-IV-V? Because those shapes can work with any key, right? When you played the first C chord I instantly thought if you moved the 5th or G to A you would have an ami second inversion. That one note change would always give you a I-vi change. I'm starting to see the light. Thanks!
Why is divided into a square of 9 pads with 3 pads in each row instead of a square of 16 pads with four pads per row? That’s what confuses me and keeps me from knowing where to go next
I was confused about this too, so I watched some other videos to clarify, but they did not explain it unfortunately, then I came across this one:
ruclips.net/video/G4AMycvuDJo/видео.html
and the answer is it's because the layout is set in 4ths (sound pitch of one pad above is one 4th above), but you can change it to 3rds or sequent.
yeah don't want to be limited to diatonic notes - useless!
Cheers man, awesome tutorial! Really appreciate your effort, music and the Push 2 is so good!!! Thanks again from down Under.
is chord progression without chromatic major even possible?
Yes it's possible but the shapes differ a little bit. Actually, in chromatic mode you can tell what type of chord you are playing because of the shape. In scale mode you can't tell the chord type by looking at the shape (like, major vs minor triad chord).
@@WasabiNoise Thanks a lot for your answer however I'm afraid i can't wrap my head around it? the alternative to chromatic would be "in key" and there you are limited to the corresponding chord. what I meant to say is that going chromatic in any other scale/key but major C would be difficult since it will differ completely from a piano black-white keys grid. however this set-up is pretty difficult to jam on unless you know piano chords super well and in that case a keyboard would just be a lot easier right? i was wondering wether there is an alternative to that. like changing the scale from one to another every four bars?
@@seranes_silence In my video, I had music producers in mind, but I get your point. Push’s “In key” mode allows you to play any chord inside that key. In my mind this is like using roman numerals, where you play I - ii - iii - IV - V - vi vii° on major scales. That means that you can put any tonic on a major scale and these numerals will always be true. If you go to “chromatic” mode, this is held true as long as you follow the “lights”, if you play 1-3-5 lights you are playing a simple triad inside that key.
If you are used to the keyboard layout of having C major as white and accidentals as black, then yeah, this system can become very hard to follow for jamming purposes. I guess my first instrument was the guitar, so I never had this C major shape in mind but the other way around, “shapes” that represent scales.
Thanks for sharing, I think it’s very interesting to know how others think about these systems. I’m also thinking of making a similar video on the piano layout, but again, this is more oriented to music producers than pianists or live musicians (although everything can help).
Thanks for this awesome tutorial and finally i understand more of the music chords and progression... Damn i love that Push...
this video today is still very helpful ,thanks a lot
Thanks! That means a lot to me
maravillloso ! gracias hno
Thank you, my friend, very useful, inversions. 6-keys square, suspend.