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A triad is made up of a root, a third, and a fifth (“root”, “third” and “fifth” refer to the note position within the scale), therefore, a C Major chord will use C, E and G, and look something like this in your piano-roll editor: The most common type of chord is called a “triad”. The 13 Most Useful Chords (5 most common in bold):įor each chord, there will be its name, the emotion (I think) it evokes, the notes used, an audio clip of how it sounds, and how it looks in the piano-roll of your DAW: We’ll use “C” as the root note in all of them for ease, but you can work out the equivalent chord in any key by counting the intervals between the notes (to see what keys there are and which notes are in them, check out this page).

If you want to really save time, you’re probably most likely to use numbers 1, 2, 5, 8 and 9, so skip to them.

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There are loads of different types of chord, but below are the 13 you’re most likely to use, how they sound, and how to make them in ANY key. Ok, so now we have the basics, we can learn how to make chords. Your DAW will only display the black notes as”#” and never as”♭” because a) it doesn’t know what key you’re in and b) the “#” symbol is native to software, whereas the “♭” is not. Just remember a “#” means play one half-step ABOVE the written note, and “♭” means play one half-step BELOW. The black notes are called “sharps” (“#”) or “flats” (“♭”) depending on what key you’re in, but you don’t need to worry about that too much. We can see in the image above that D3 is a two half-steps above C3, E3 is two half-steps above that, F3 is ONE half-step above E3, G3 is two half-steps above F3, A3 is two half-steps above G3, B3 is two half-steps above A3 and C4 (the next octave) is one half-step above B3. On your DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) piano-roll editor – which is basically a virtual piano – it looks like this: For instance, The key of C Major includes the notes C, D, E, F, G, A, B and, when played in a scale, sounds like this: The Key of C Major: Įach note in the key is assigned a number. Major keys sound happy :), and minor keys sound sad :(. Well, in music, a key is basically the name given to a collection of notes that can be used together and still sound good. You build chords using notes from within a key. Firstly, what’s a chord?Ī chord is a combination of three of more notes. Well, the key to chords, is, err, “keys”.

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Download my free “EDM Chord Bible” by clicking here.Ī friend asked me recently: “How do you make chords, and how do you know which ones sound good together?”.