Logic Pro 11 // Chord Track (FULL TUTORIAL)
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- Опубліковано 10 чер 2024
- 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!
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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
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!
Support the sponsor of this video! Boombox ➛ bit.ly/boomboxsponsor
Download my 35-part Logic Course here! ➛ www.logicproguide.com
For mixing/mastering work, contact me at my website ➛ carneymediagroup.com
Follow MusicTechHelpGuy on Instagram ➛ instagram.com/musictechhelpguy
Support the channel on Patreon ➛ patreon.com/musictechhelpguy
#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
just casualy throws in the best ever explanation of suspended, diminished and augmented chords while talking about logic 🤣 awesome vid
This man is an incredible Logic teacher!!
Yes. Rapid Teacher
he even got listed as a qualified resource on apple website.. I wonder how many succesful artist this made
As a lifelong teacher, i want to give you kudos for your clear and concise teaching video. Bravo👍🏼
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
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.
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.
Right with ya!
This channel is awesome, I subscribed twice.... Once in my dreams, and once just now.
Some of the best logic instructional content on the UA-cams for sure, great overview with the info that matters. Aweseome!
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!
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.
Thanks for the lecture! This is an amazing feature and you explained it so well! 👏👏👏
Thanks so much for another great tutorial.
Thanks for putting this up so quickly!
Amazing game changer, thank you so much! Had to like and subscribe :) Big blessings!
Awesome video, thank you
Rock on Josh! Thanks so much for the tips!
Great tutorial thank you!
Very useful, thank you!
Excellent tutorial. Thank you!
You Sir are an excellent teacher!
Awesome video, great job! Thank you so much!
Thank you so much for the tutorial! Big fan of yours!
Great tutorial! Thank you sir!
Thank you for making the efforts to educate me. Love your videos
This was great - thanks, Josh! 🙂👍
Thanks Bro Great tutorial
Great teaching. Thank You!
thanks Bro, great stuff. Nice and clear!
Thanks for this, very good!
you are on point like always!
Thanks for sharing your thoughts and ideas !!
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....
Strange . In the Groove3 training you can see that a session can be transferred to midi with option to have the chords displayed under the midi. So midi info to chord track must be simple. Cubase 13 will give you a chord track from an audio file. That is a more complex job .
This is crazy. Great video.
Dude, I can't wait to give this a try. I really think this will help with compositions for me.
Super helpful. Subscribing!
Wow! Excellent demonstration of a powerful tool for song writing and arrangement. Thanks Josh. Looking forward to your deep-dive on the new AI Session Players, in particular the manual input feature.
It helps a lot!
Thank you so much!
This much needed option for logic users. Thanks dear for deep explanation.
Amazing thanks for video appreciated
Thx, this is the right way to introduce such a new tool!
sounds and works much better than i imagined, nice
This video will create a lot of new Logic Pro users. Really cool stuff and great instruction.
Excellent video!!
Buenisimo !!!! Gracias
Love how you even got into some music theory too, with the chord types!
Man this is so powerful!
Thank you Josh for this
That was a great teaching!
Thanks a lot!
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.
In cubase u can drag a full audio track and convert to midi chord track and it analyzes the chords. I tested it with a Bruno mars songs that had some 7ths and 9th extensions and i would say its about 85% accurate
it recognised my midi input from scaler
Can other tracks (besides session players) be made aware of / follow the chord track?
@@issiewizzieplease tell how?
@@issiewizzie How??
Great Tut mate. My thoughts exactly, It's a learning tool.
Great content
Great tutorial! It really opens some doors.
Thanks for this extensive overview! I'm so happy that Logic (re)introduced the Chord track. I've been waiting for this... and now it's here! And with the bass and keyboard player I think Toontrack is in a bit of a panic now. I hope that Logic (or Toontrack) soon adds a Guitarist. Because I want what this amazing keyboard player does but on guitar. This Chord Track is gonna be so helpful for quickly trying new songwriting ideas.
THis was just what I needed. I have been fumbling all day with chords
So full of great info for creating new and working with old progressions...I have my work cut out to master all these new creative options but your giving us a great head start...Thank you Josh...Michael Philip Conn
You are my hero!!!
I use Chord Track in Cubase Pro and it's such a useful feature.. So I'm very happy Logic Pro 11 has finally got it back as I seem to recall years ago there was a chord track in LP. Great video 👍😃
I think in Cubase chord track is way more useful because it works with all tracks if you choose to. But in Logic 11 chord tracks works only on session players which is very limited
@@beku73 " it works with all tracks if you choose to" it's a different thing though. In Cubase it just allows you to have instruments in tracks play the chords (as simple block chords). In Logic it's used to have the bass/keyboard/piano players follow the chords and play tracks. So it's more like what EzKeys does
@@foljs5858 Yes EZkeys 2 is amazing. But you need the Groove3 Training to understand .
@@foljs5858 I didn’t upgrade to logic 11 yet. So chord tracks in Logic 11 works with all instruments and midi tracks if you choose to? Thanks
super cool. updating my logic today. thank you for this amazing video. i am going to test this with chatgpt. i am going to have gpt give me chords for a complicated folk/country song and then plug it into logic and see how it goes! i have never played an instrument in my life btw. i am a vocalist.
Oh Dear!! This is so awesome and I need it in my life. Can't ugrade to logic 11 on my 2 macs so gonna have to start saving my pennies to get a new one. Damn it LOL. Fantastic video as always.
This makes using the iPad and Logic Pro more useful when on the road without midi keyboard
Can other tracks (besides session players) be made aware of / follow the chord track?
Try it. I just pulled the chords from the chord track onto a MIDI track and it put down block chords. If you change the Chord track they follow! Not sure if the block chords are a default or there is something else. Also you can change the instrument on the Session Keyboards too!
Another great video! Will this new tool show you piano chords for already written songs in Logic? This would be incredibly useful for doing charts!
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DOPE AS..
Thanks for this video - your key command definitely makes this easier. I'm disappointed they didn't allow any kind of MIDI region to chord track functionality. Maybe this will come in a point update. It could definitely be faster. Also hoping they address chord change creation so it actually occurs at the playhead. Seems to want to snap to whole notes by default. Great video though. Subscribed. Thanks!
Thanks for the great video! Is it possible for Logic to analyze the chords of a recording (or MIDI region) and map the chord track based on that?
Hopefully in a future update it will auto detect the chords from a Midi Track, or even from an audio file. Would be a huge timesaver!
@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
Thanks for the great tutorial. Do you know if there is a quick way to export a chord chart with the names of the chords on a score from the chord track in Logic Pro 11?
Thanx for your Introduction. I would like to know if I can play the midi Piano while recording and Session Player can write the chords for me. Without stopping for each chord.
This is it. The beginning of the end of music.
Thank you very much for this amazing video...I have a question...Can Chord track recognise the chords played in Midi Track and write the chord progression for the entire Midi region as it used to before?
I wonder if it can follow the chords you play in 🤔
Is it possible to save a custom chord progression as a preset available in the chord progression submenu?
Can the Global Chord Track chords appear in the Score Editor?
this thing is just amazing, guess if i want to pass a chord progression to a midi instruments i need just to drag and move on the region where the vst is loaded right?
Great Video again. But I have one question: as far I can see Logic does not have a method that it shows only the applicable chords and based on the key/scale you are working in. Or am I missing some thing? IN abbleton (for instance) in the piano roll there is a scal mode you can turn on, so you know you ate always hitting the right notes.
Edit: Ok I found it (partly): Scale Quantize in the Piano Roll in combination with the brush tool.
Bruh, I have NO CLUE why Apple has not SNATCHED YOU UP! As is shown below, you are INDEED an incredible Logic Teacher! I have to say, you have OUTDONE yourself in this video. Dude - Dude - Dude! Logic Pro's take on the Chord Track is better than EZKeys, Studio One, Scaler 2, and Cubase....The power of this may be overseen by many, but it ALLOWS US to go in and tinker and do "creative" choices of our own instead of being IMPOSED in a certain workflow. This is the AWESOME Key to using the Chord Track. Instead of thinking of it as a GLOBAL Track, think of it as a Creative Conductor to add more "Spice" to our Songs. You have outdone yourself again....Thanks Big Timer!!!!!
I bet they've tried, and that Josh prefers being master of his domain. And that's good for all of us, right? And good for Josh, too.
Assigning a keyboard shortcut makes the chord track editing a lot less annoying, but as a pianist I really wish I could just record it live and have it figure out the chords based on what I'm playing, rather than having to set up the chord track a chord at a time for the purpose of the bass player or whatever.
Also, the chord track isn't technically new to Logic 11 - it was also in Logic versions 7-9, but they removed it from 10 for some reason (although the version that showed up in 7 wasn't nearly as powerful).
Can you set the pitch correction plugin to follow the chord track?
I’d rather just use Scalar2 and see if Logic engineers made AU midi handling smart enough to interpret incoming MIDI
Can you use the MIDI from another track as the input to your chord track?
Is there a way to choose from a list of stock chord progressions or saved progressions instead of Logic just dropping a random one into your project?
Curious if there is any way to copy midi chords into the chord track? Like if I already have a session done up but just wanted to copy the overall midi file over to the chord track, is there not a way to do that or work around from having to go one by one in adding the chords?
Is there a way to “exctract” a whole chord progression from a midi file piano track?
If you sing something that has not musical accompaniment will you be able to use session player to add ithat?
Hi help needed, in the sessions players drums, keyboards etc, under the manual tab, I tried to copy and paste the 1st pattern into the empty second pattern and it won't copy/paste over... Is there a work around or is this a bug... Any help would be greatly appreciated
What about voicing and voice leading?
Can it do that or do I have to do it manually?
How to change the midi region notes with the chord track??
Why would Apple leave out the guitar for chord progressions? If anything, wouldn't it make more sense for them to leave out the Bass? Aren't chords done more on the guitar, than on the bass? I usually start my music tracks off with a software (or whatever it's called) instruments guitar, and then build up the chords and progression. It would have been great, if I could do what you show in the video, with a guitar track. Also, if I start with a guitar track, will the drummer or bass or keyboard session players use the midi information from the guitar track?
Band in a Box 1
haha I've been thinking the same thing. In DOS no less
Also Chord Track 1.0 -- I bet some updates come later based on feedback.
Right on the ball! How stable is it for you?
Answer: not very.
Is there a way to generate Chord Progressions Internal to Logic Pro 11 instead of using Scaler 2 or EZKeys 2?
If I start with the global arrangement, say, Intro, verse, bridge chorus, will the global chords follow a format like the drums do?
Is there a way to use a midi file with a chord progression to built the chord track.
Your song has more chords than 99% of all modern popular music. ;-)
Thanks for the video tutorial. That's cool features ... I just do not understand, why I seem not to be able to use (or at least see) the chord information in "normal" MIDI tracks in the Piano Roll editor. Or am I missing something?
yes i dont get this part either. there is absolutely no way to utilize piano roll midi regions. cant convert them to project chords (even though chords are automatically detected when notes are selected in the piano roll), cant use midi regions as an alternative chord input for session players either. EVEN using the "convert to session player region" creates a drum pattern played with a piano 😂 its awful and so unintuitive to use - hopefully not forever... which is a shame because the new instruments sound really amazing especially the studio pianos
Small rant.
Just got 11.
Got it before I start a new project (a childerns musical) so I'm working on the first song. The process is that I get a "raw" song (usually just a voice track, recorded on a phone) and do a piano demo with maybe a bit of a rhythm section. In these cases I sometimed use the Drummer track just to flesh out the demo a bit. So today, I figured, "let's see what this AI bass player can do.
Go back to Logic 9.x and you could get a chord track fron a MIDI piano track. Sometimes too much info, but it analised your track and you could even export it to the score editor. Not any more. Now in Logic 11, the much touted "Chord Track" has to be typed in or you can select from some generic patterns. You can't just set it to "follow" the piano track and expect it to know what's going on and apparently you can't export a "chord track" fron your piano MIDI.
REALLY? At this point it will be much easier to just play in a bass part.
It’s got the “A” but not much “I”.
Is there any integration of the chord track with the score? Does it add chord symbols to the score?