Logic Pro 11 // Chord Track (FULL TUTORIAL)

The Chord Track new to Logic Pro 11 is an incredible tool for music composition and arrangement; and it's also a super helpful educational tool to learn about music theory and building chord progressions. The session bass player and keyboard player tracks work in tandem with the chord track to give you immediate results! In this video I give a tutorial on all of the main chord track features in Logic Pro 11. Enjoy!

#logicpro #logicprox #logicpro11

Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:37 Boombox Sponsor Segment
1:34 Default Progression + Key
3:09 Create Chords
5:36 Custom Key Command
7:50 Edit Chords
9:58 Keyboard Player
11:10 Extended Harmonies
14:22 Bass + Drummer
16:34 MIDI Input
18:04 Generative Progressions
19:44 Key Change
21:02 Colorize + Copy/Paste
22:08 Wrap-up

[MusicTechHelpGuy]

The Chord Track new to Logic Pro 11 is an incredible tool for music composition and arrangement; and it's also a super helpful educational tool to learn about music theory and building chord progressions. The session bass player and keyboard player tracks work in tandem with the chord track to give you immediate results! In this video I give a tutorial on all of the main chord track features in Logic Pro 11. Enjoy!



#logicpro #logicprox #logicpro11

Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:37 Boombox Sponsor Segment
1:34 Default Progression + Key
3:09 Create Chords
5:36 Custom Key Command
7:50 Edit Chords
9:58 Keyboard Player
11:10 Extended Harmonies
14:22 Bass + Drummer
16:34 MIDI Input
18:04 Generative Progressions
19:44 Key Change
21:02 Colorize + Copy/Paste
22:08 Wrap-up

[philipmarsh]

This is likely the most innovative songwriting tool I’ve ever seen. As a guitarist I’ve always found my rudimentary keyboard skills (and non-existent percussion skills) to be a massive hindrance but this opens up a lot of possibilities. It’s so intuitive and easy to experiment.

[ErrkaPetti]

This man is an incredible Logic teacher!!

[gavmurray]

just casualy throws in the best ever explanation of suspended, diminished and augmented chords while talking about logic 🤣 awesome vid

[nbkje]

This music tech helpguy produces all of his videos without hiding anything & unconditionally training us Logic. Now I only rely on him. He also knows all the music theories 😊 thanks to him

[filiphosko]

The biggest bummer for me is that it doesn't seem to allow you to just import a chord progression to the Chord Track via dragging & dropping a MIDI region or via MIDI input. Logic can recognize the chords, it shows them in Control Bar but so far I wasn't able to route the MIDI into the Chord Track.

[wokecults]

I'm amazed at what you can do with Logic Pro now. I dreamed of having these tools decades ago. Thanks for the tutorials. I'm building my home studio these days and your videos are exactly what I needed 🙂

[dongaudreau]

As a lifelong teacher, i want to give you kudos for your clear and concise teaching video. Bravo👍🏼

[abulka]

You can hit TAB whilst in the chord dialog to create a successive chord in the next bar. So keep hitting TAB and keep entering chords.

[Darkest_of_Winter]

Dude, I can't wait to give this a try. I really think this will help with compositions for me.

[lonewolf_wayne]

@MusicTechHelpGuy Just wanted to point out the using the Chord track and the Session players, you can create parts for more instruments than just the session players. For example you need a guitar part. You can use the piano session player set to simple, left root only, right to full chord, getting the simple playable guitar chords. convert region to midi move region to a new guitar track.
Can also use with only the updated Apple Loops to pinpoint what is played in any of the loops, giving you a point that can split and move to are you want.
I'm sure the is even more that can bee done but all I've been able to do so far as am un the intel m1 mac and not everything is available to me.

Edit: the Bass player also can work in a similar manner to create solo parts ad then transpose it

[Snailmale]

This channel is awesome, I subscribed twice.... Once in my dreams, and once just now.

[peterg]

So amazingly helpful mate. Thank you so much for all your hard work in publishing these brilliant videos!

[burkeingraffia]

Can you use the MIDI from another track as the input to your chord track?

[alfrugo]

what a great tutorial. thanks for sharing!

[mikenewman]

This update is great and a great video from Music Tech Guy! BUT....I play piano/keyboards and absolutely don't want to enter my chords in to the chord track after I just played them to do things like use the Bass Session Player. I can't believe the ability for Logic to analyze your piano midi track was left out of this update (Toontrack Piano and Bass plugins do this great...). Wish Music Tech Guy had addressed this issue and if there was a work around to having to enter the chords into the Chord Track you just played in....

[FatHeadMovie]

Hey, MusicTechHelpGuy -- It occurred to me while watching this that I've watched a ton of your videos before running off to Logic to do some work using the techniques you demonstrated ... but I've never come back to say thanks. So THANKS! And again, THANKS! You're an excellent teacher, and you've helped me a great deal with getting my project done.

[stevenparkerstudio]

Great video but my chord progessions keep changing, skipping to a bar ahead of the position marker, and generally dropping just dropping out. Is anyone else having issues with Global Chord tracks? Am I doing something wrong?

[Intenzity]

Some of the best logic instructional content on the YouTubes for sure, great overview with the info that matters. Aweseome!

[didieraubert]

Been following you for a long time now... man are you good at making things look so simple and easy to understand!!! Congrats on that skill, not everybody has it!