How do you do chords in FL studio

 Melody FL studio chords easy

How do you make melody chords?

Piano chords tunelyrica
Piano chord 

 
    CHORDS are Groups of notes (two or more ), that sound together harmonically.
Usually, they are played together at the same time.

    What are the chords on the piano FL studio:-

The following are basic chords you will encounter while making beats especially  hip-hop or trap music  as well as Afro-beats

 Basic chord type:
1. Major chord
2. Minor chord 
3. augmented chord 
4. diminished chord 
5. transpose chord 

     In this section, we will be exploring 3 main chords which are common

Starting with:
Major chords and minor chords, the difference between these two chords is the position of the middle note in the piano roll as follows:


C major 

Photo to show c major chord in fl  in fl studio
FL studio piano roll to show the c major chords


As you can see the position of  middle note is in F note versus c minor  chord below 


C minor chord 

C minor 

Photo to show c minor chord in fl studio
FL  studio to show  C minor  Chord 



As you can see the position of  middle note is in D#   note 

Kindly note that  the above are c5 chord  but it can be applied as you go up or down the piano roll . For example the chord is named after the root note of the down chord the same apply to D major and minor F major and minor and so on.


     How do you make melody chords?


To make melody chord start by try to find the bass note .Forexample from the above piano roll the bass note is C 

 Or 
Transpose chord
Try to transpose the melody to a scale you know know 
This can be archived by shifting one or two notes of the chord to a second octave either below or down the chord.


Photo to show transpose chord in fl studio
Fl studio to show transposed C minor Chord



 

        How do you make melody chords?

Therefore building melody is achieved by building repetitive notes around around chords in a scale that makes melody easy to make.



 



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