10 Chord Layering Techniques (that add energy to boring chords)
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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
"No wrong answers, just better choices!" Wish i heard this 15yrs ago! Great Vids!
I'm not even making EDM, yet this has given me a lot of perspective and usable knowledge in my productions
Same. I make trap music mostly. I do like some edm though. And like movie scores and piano
Same
Same. I do metal
msuic is music
Same! I'm a melodic rapper and I get plenty of sauce from this channel!
1) Granular(8bars until they getting dry) 0:37
2)skinny into wide chords 1:52
3)enhance chords during arrangement 3:20
4)pick the best layering technique for your Song 4:34
5)vocoder to add harmony to vocals 5:48
6)re-arcitulate the chords 7:35
7) adding lfo to high reverb chord layers 8:50
8)layering chords using alternative dynamics 10:20
9)using harmony layers instead full stacks of chords 11:25
10)virtual analog synth , saq wave , unison, filter it. Add reverb + ott (glue reverband sound a bit ) 13:55
->adds space and heaven
You have such a strong sense of melody and ear worms, all of your examples in your videos are so good
9:50 just lifted me up, accelerated me to light speed and took me to another dimension.. Bravo!
Yeah this tip sounds amazing!
dude. RIGHT! For anyone who sees this, do you know of any artists that have a similar style? Would love to get into this genre of edm.
I love how you use a bunch of different DAWs in your videos. Honestly, that convinced me you 100% know what you're doing lol. I can't imagine learning all those different workflows
Honestly dude your videos have really helped massively improve the quality of my production and sound design, and I was struggling with this very topic on a song I'm working on. Can't wait to implement some of these into it. Thanks for all the helpful tips and tricks
You must be at least 20% better now!
Hi Alex great Video 🎉 do you have two vocal synth then one for the right layer on for the left ?
Damn seriously.!!
You got artist verified with just 11 subs😱🤣
Hecker???
😮💨😊😊😊😊😊😊
@@mcgritty8842 Watches the video 5x to win the game. EZ Clap.
You're taking us a step further. So great Alex
20% further
@@mcgritty8842 lmfao
All of your videos make me want to jump in the DAW and get it done. You have a great teaching style and your examples are incredible. Keep it up!
I wasn’t really listening until 4:05 snapped me to attention. I started it over and wow, this video was a master class.
An idea I wanna try after this video, mixing the vocoder trick wih the LFO trick, making the vocal sound crazy. Thanks for your work 😊
THIS CHANGED MY LIFE!!!!🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Thank you!!!
I’ve been needing these approaches to production!!
The days are better when Alex uploads video
Absolutely love your videos and always walk away with something new and valuable learned! Thanks for always posting great content.
This makes me want to keep pushing harder to learn music theory! You’re a legend brotha
Super informative video Alex! keep up the great work
I learned a lot from this clip.. that LFO trick made me think of the effects BT sometimes uses.. that's as big a compliment as I could ever pay! 🙌 Thanks for the inspiration
wow this was 4 sure for me a complete free music production masterclass
This is the best production channel on YT by several orders of magnitude. So so useful
GRrat vid, I always try to over complicate things with too many layers, but you show that it only takes 2 or 3 layers to make great chord sounds!
This third tip is perfect for my songs!
Love it! Big 7L vibes at 4:20.
Always good watching these very good musical tutorials,I'm a flautist of grade 8,but have only started practicing again recently.these chord tutorials help alot,as I may have said before in a previous comment,especially as flutes,beautiful sounding they are,they're monophonic!anyway thanks for all your tutorials
This is one of the best tutorials I've seen in a long while! Keep them coming, Alex!
i love how you're just as blown away by your own work as we are
You're extremely talented and humble in knowledge, Stay blessed my guy!
4:07 gave me chills
Inspiration just turned into Niagara Falls, I literally got some new track ideas just with these techniques. I'll make a challange with them to create one full track per technique
*9:50** gave me 7 Lions vibes. I love your information that you are sharing.*
BEAST MODE!!! THANKS FOR HELPING THE COMMUNITY 🙏🏾
Man, you really taught me a lot young man.. This was outstanding.. The vocorder was the doo doo.. Wow.. Thank you so much for this technique.. Fantastic explanation..
Your channel is gold-mine for trance chords.
The chords at 10:00 are beautiful they remind me of some Lucian chords from back in the day
You are doing such an amazing job..Thank You So much For Such great music making contents..Lots Of Love From INDIA❤️🇮🇳..Keep Us informative Guru Ji 🙏
I love you man. I was depressed of not coming up with new ideas to my songs. Now I am way more expired. Shout out my man keep staying on the grind :3
What a wonderful channel, Alex! Jesus bless you dear friend!
Its cool jus seeing the way you make magic sounds. Thanks man, big fan...👍
Im so lucky i discovered ur channel. Im purely amazed by all of your videos! Thats so much value 😮
Truly enjoyed this video 🎶😎👍
Just wanted to mention your "Thick & Thin Chords" are a great idea, but your "thin" chords AREN'T thin -- they're MONO, which means their Volume is EVENLY DISTRIBUTED across both channels, making it INHERITANTLY WIDER than your "thick" chords, which are FLUCTUATING in Volume in the Stereo Field. This is great because the MONO track ANCHORS the texure in BOTH speakers while the FLUCTUATING track dances & swirls around the mono track.
I do this all the time -- usually to the exact SAME signal. Let's say you DUPLICATE your PAD onto another track -> 1 Mono & the 2nd Wide. You can SATURATE the BASS of the mono track to give it some extra Presence in the center. Then add an effect to the STEREO track like Chorus or a Rotory Speaker to give it some Movement in the stereo field. You can even SATURATE the HIGH END of the stereo track to give life and shimmer to the edges during your Drop or Song Chorus for extra Power & Emphasis ⚡️😉🎉
Thanks for listening & absolutely looking forward to your next video 😎👍🎶
Alex, this video is gold. I don't really make EDM, but I'm considering doing your boot camp because after over 20 years of experience doing electronic music you still wow me with the techniques you share in your videos. Great work my friend! 🙌🏼
Wow, these are amazing. Thank you. Always amazing to listen to someone who really knows what they're doing
9:50 sent me through the Galaxy🤯
This is fr the best tut I’ve ever watched
Thank you, Alex! 🙏👍
Awesome and i like how you get to the point of things without talking unnecessary stuff
9:50 holy fire 🤯😮🔥🔥🔥🔥
Thank you for this.
5:31 is such a jam for great summer party
Again an inspirational video to just go back to create and try some of this techniques. Great content 💯💯💯
Really Digging That LFO Trick At @9:55.
More videos like this one please
Its very Helpfull 🙃
The 7th point is DOPE !
2:57
I like this style of music. Somehow it always reminds of space, and crunching of malfunctioning microphone creates the feeling of astronauts talking on the radio outdoor, for example, of the ISS
Thank you so much ❤
Thanks a lot some of this technics are gonna be useful for sure
That really gave some insight into, what big sound means. Subscribed!
This is really great. Didn’t realize you started using Ableton.
I like how he turns his head from the screen when he plays something. I think today we can tend to lean to far into what the music looks like rather than how it sounds. Super subtle but something I think really important!
I don't have laptop watching & hoping one day I will also do that..
Basically I am a song writer..
But I don't have to hire music producer so I am learning to make one... It's just delaying my production.. trying to make music on bandlab...😅😅😅
Bro you're lit 👍🏼 thanks
Your students Braden’s project sounds a lot like River by Miley . 5:30 Love all the layering techniques. I learned a lot!
Great insight into how to add magic to chords!
A true masterclass. Thanks for this, my favorite vid of yours so far.
Wow.. awesome lesson
This was really helpful, thanks mate!
Awesome guide. My actual project consists of a four note patterns, I vary every bar, so I avoid a boring structure
Thank you so much for this Tutorial
Love from India
At 9:50, thats my favorite, it sounds so great, i like how the LFO sounds, i wonder how using this technique would sound with melodic dubstep?
It would sound at least 20% better
Doesn't just work on EDM, but in other styles too.
I usually record multiple guitar tracks, EQ them, compressing some while keeping others full range dynamically, some get more space and reverb, others more upfront - and pan them throughout the song to keep some audible separation between every instrument (drums, bass, synths). Once I'm happy I'll add vocals - often doubletracked too.
It's all fun and games 😎👍🤣
Can u make a tutorial on how to layer your synth sounds and stuff like that thank you love your videos you help me a lot
Genius ideas here
the FL's piano roll pics in the thumbnail was a genius move
Sounding lush buddy. Nice going.
Every tutorial is cool
Pigments is a BEASTTTTTTTTTTTT! Thank You By The Way Alex Brother!!!
Once again really useful tips! Thanks a lot
Thank you at all times.👍🏽
Your tutorials help me a lot 👍
Great! Thanks.
Melody Guru 🙌
well done ! , wheels are turning : )
I’m a simple man: I see real usable arranging techniques up front in the thumbnail, I hit subscribe and leave a hackneyed comment
#7 was unreal
Shot and to the point
Nice chords man. As always. The best.
masterpiece
Incredibly cool stuff Alex. Thank you!
Thank you
Thank you bro
You make it look easy. Well done!
Thank you bro it s amazing thank you so much for every knowĺedge shared
I hope i can prgress a little bit i don t know ever what genre i m making 😅
nice choice of chords
wel done sir'
Great inspiration! Thank you for sharing your knowledge 😊✌️
I love your videos! Thank you so so so so so much!!!
Can't help but wonder how many artists you ghost for. You are way too good lol. Thanks for this one though. Man I'm in chord heaven now.
amazing......... teacher.
Amazing ❤️ you are the best music teacher and chord god 💪💪💪👍
Hey mate, thanks so much. I love your style.
Awesome bro. Loved it.
Shiii... Man you're good... Make me wanna work NOW & implement these tips.