How to create the Phrygian mode and harmonize it with the correct chords in Ableton Live

How to quickly create chords from any scale or mode. In this example I've entered the notes of the phrygiam mode and then very quickly extracted all the harmonic chords using Ableton's folding technique. I could have used any scale or mode and generated the harmonic chords.
Usuage:
Lets say you have a melody in a particular key/scale/mode and you want to harmonize it with the correct chords...well once you understand the basic technique presented here it can be applied to all known scales and modes with very little music theory knowledge.
My website www.chordengine.com has a full written tutorial as well as links for free useful utilties for improving your songwriting skills including the FREE nutchords utility which I've used in this tutorial for generating the Phrygian mode itself.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Ableton chords and scales
• how
• to
• build
• chords
• chord progression
• phrygian mode
• ableton scales
• ableton tricks and tips
• understanding modes

[KoolaidDRINKER94]

This should be illegal...LOL

Is it only for ableton? Very sexy!!

[chordengine]

@KoolaidDRINKER94

yeah just for Ableton atm due the folding feature that makes it easy to filter the scales and modes.

cheers

[nicoljcraig]

Hey, nice tutorial. Do you know of software like nutchords for mac?

[gloverelaxis]

surely it'd be better to just learn the phryggian mode so you could add accidentals

[Musiclogist]

is there a nutchords for mac?

[terry513]

everything means nothing to me

[dtp5150]

@M4XM4RT1N lol yeah but, i think maybe he did this as an example. I'm sure it gets more useful using other scales

[GV1UK]

I wish there was a function in logic for this! Would be awesome. The fold to scale thing I mean. Would make my life a whole lot easier when initially creating a track and finding a nice scale/mode to create it in.

[weicj]

Nice video,creative thinking :)

pro +1

[emekajji]

u must try the instrument called kalimba :)

u gonna love it

nice video

[fatalist6o9]

This an awesome tutorial. Just what I've been looking for, thank you so much!

[LeviWhalenMusic]

I like this, however I would have liked a different lead sound, as the harmonics of the patch itself interfere with the exercise. Love what you are doing here besides that!