Creating an Ambient Track – Part 2: Chords and Structure

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In this video I show how I develop structure and a story using chord progressions.
Using Logic Pro, I walk through my early creative decisions: choosing a piano sound, choice of chords and voicing and using these to take the listener on a journey through the track.
00:00 - Inspiration and painting a picture
01:15 - Revisiting the pad from part 1
01:40 - Piano sound and happy accidents
02:26 - Choosing chords
06:30 - Changing the mood
07:30 - Chord variation
09:48 - Editing
Gear used in this video:
Logic Pro on MacBook Pro
Native Instruments Komplete A49 Midi keyboard
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