Logic Pro 11 // Chord Track (FULL TUTORIAL)

[@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! 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

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[@gavmurray7398]

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

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[@FatHeadMovie]

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[@peterg5440]

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

[@LABlukas]

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!

[@MyOwnWayMusic]

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 👍😃

[@beku73]

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

[@foljs5858]

​@@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

[@NickFromNetherlands]

@@foljs5858 Yes EZkeys 2 is amazing. But you need the Groove3 Training to understand .

[@beku73]

@@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

[@makkvofficial1742]

This much needed option for logic users. Thanks dear for deep explanation.

[@DigiMixAudio]

Rock on Josh! Thanks so much for the tips!

[@lonewolf_wayne8248]

@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

[@Darkest_of_Winter]

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

[@Intenzity]

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

[@MyOwnWayMusic]

very good and helpful tutorial.. thank you 😀

[@aldenhill]

Love how you even got into some music theory too, with the chord types!

[@scottbronder]

THis was just what I needed. I have been fumbling all day with chords

[@Valsi876]

You Sir are an excellent teacher!

[@agentxxvii]

Thanks for putting this up so quickly!

[@nealemuldowney7455]

Great Tut mate. My thoughts exactly, It's a learning tool.

[@chicagobob]

This makes using the iPad and Logic Pro more useful when on the road without midi keyboard

[@eecorr]

Thanks for sharing your thoughts and ideas !!

[@freakpower4430]

Thanks for this, very good!

[@nicebluejay]

sounds and works much better than i imagined, nice

[@gesslr]

Can other tracks (besides session players) be made aware of / follow the chord track?

[@pentachronic]

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!

[@PaulOrtiz]

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!

[@emmalo109]

Thanks for the lecture! This is an amazing feature and you explained it so well! 👏👏👏

[@beku73]

Band in a Box 1

[@andyk5495]

haha I've been thinking the same thing. In DOS no less

[@jfbmusic]

Also Chord Track 1.0 -- I bet some updates come later based on feedback.

[@papuundderbaer]

Thx, this is the right way to introduce such a new tool!

[@kevindoriannorris3946]

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”.

[@dopocc]

Amazing game changer, thank you so much! Had to like and subscribe :) Big blessings!

[@tranquilitybase6417]

I’d rather just use Scalar2 and see if Logic engineers made AU midi handling smart enough to interpret incoming MIDI

[@bonarhya25146]

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.

[@fluffycritter]

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).

[@liriosanz]

Buenisimo !!!! Gracias

[@Bashanvibe]

I wonder if it can follow the chords you play in 🤔

[@DanBires]

Great teaching. Thank You!

[@InactiveNode]

Excellent tutorial. Thank you!

[@ralphfokkema2316]

This is crazy. Great video.

[@OliKember]

Man this is so powerful!

[@davidp7834]

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?

[@SonnyGreenwichJr]

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! 🔥🧨💪🏽🤠👍🏽🧨🔥

[@filbertneon3813]

thanks Bro, great stuff. Nice and clear!

[@macschomo]

Your song has more chords than 99% of all modern popular music. ;-)

[@Resare_Vocaloid]

It helps a lot! Thank you so much!

[@issiewizzie]

The biggest for me is the midi routing feature from one instrument to another

[@guymars4789]

How do you transpose the key of a project in Logic Pro 11? The global drop down no longer shows "TRANSPOSE" as an option.. Apple support did not have an answer.

[@mistermusicenterprise3148]

That was a great teaching!

[@FrancescoPinetti]

Is there a way to “exctract” a whole chord progression from a midi file piano track?

[@galefraney]

Excellent video!!

[@amd5471]

Thanks for another excellent tutorial! Can anyone explain what happens with the transposition at the beginning? The I-ii-vi-vi progression in C major, is transposed to D minor, but what pops out is a I-ii-vi-vi chord progression in F major, which MHTG says is a III-iv-i-i in Dm. I'm confused.

[@Hurtfelder]

I do exactly as you are doing and it doesn't change the chord. Click Plus, click root note, click min, maj, etc. It doesn't change the chord.

[@Hurtfelder]

Somehow...it healed.

[@rawu-music]

You are my hero!!!

[@1masterfader]

I thought logic could look at the chords I play in the track and put them up on the chord track and tell me what they are. I guess we aren't there yet. Right now I play then go in the piano roll and highlight the chords and it tells me on the left the names of the chords. Be nice to have that in the chord track so I can write charts faster.

[@ken92592]

Is it possible to save a custom chord progression as a preset available in the chord progression submenu?

[@laskholt]

Thanks a lot!

[@maximeblais2032]

So interesting…just a problem with the quality of the video image here. Unable to adjust resolution, very hard time to read the text in your screen 🙁

[@diegosur]

This is it. The beginning of the end of music.

[@officeofdemonology]

I'm curious how session players and chords works with arrangements.

[@Hello_Im_Dev]

seems as if logic aded scaler 2 as a feature.. and kontakt does a lot of this now too as plugins...if u dont have logic 11 ..but its still cool this stuff is in house now..gonna take a lot for me to leave studio one 6 and go back to Logic BUT...this is a good step

[@burkeingraffia]

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

[@leefoster4171]

Great content

[@joramponi249]

oh my god

[@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?

[@ronieaz8114]

Yes, StevenParker I am having the same result. True the TechGuy is a good instructor, BUT I've been following the tutorial step by step as he goes along and my version of Logic does not seem to match his. I'm getting grey shading when he gets black and like you say the chord does not show up at the marker position. I'm still playing with it because I think I can use this new feature, but so far it is frustratingly worthless to me. The way he explains it and shows it makes perfect sense, but my system does not perform like his.

[@stevenparkerstudio]

@@ronieaz8114Took a while but my system is now matching his. Seems to have caught up…

[@joelh.marcus7558]

I've lost the cut and paste functions and it is quitting then reopens losing data. How can i fix this? Are others having this trouble?

[@aanstadt]

Help! When I want to duplicate a progression you show it being as simple as holding option and dragging. When I hold option and drag it doesn’t duplicate the progression but it moves the actual original progression. How do I duplicate a whole progression so i can easily drag it where needed while keeping the original where it’s at?

[@PabloCaputto]

Whats the shortcut to go to next chord? tab? didnt work for me.. someone?

[@claudestylee1]

what good is a session AI keyboard and bass player, when it cant simply follow my playing? you mean to tell me you have to manually type in each individual chord progression?

[@chaplunatic]

is there any way to just get the Piano and Bass tracks to just follow a rhythm guitar track ?

[@jaylatman6369]

Can I just play the chords and have LP recreate it in the Chord track?

[@claudestylee1]

i feel it is absolutly bogus to leave that option not avaiable

[@Hauteclaire16]

For the life of me I cannot figure out what the "scale" setting means when creating a chord on the chord track. If I am writing in G phrygian, what do I put in the key signature? Do I put G minor (for the tonal center) and then select phrygian scale when creating chords?

[@philipmarsh3522]

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?

[@krioso]

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?

[@AriaStone]

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?

[@DJVasC]

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.

[@pratikpanchal2492]

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?

Love this new feature, tho I can't find a way to enter a F#min/D, cause Logic change it to Dmaj7. I know it's the same note but it's not the same thing >:( someone knows a fix ?

[@ldifalco2010]

A two note chord is a dyad (2 notes).

[@ContentScientist]

Is there a way to generate Chord Progressions Internal to Logic Pro 11 instead of using Scaler 2 or EZKeys 2?

[@ChasMusic]

Is there any integration of the chord track with the score? Does it add chord symbols to the score?

[@eyeque7]

Why didn’t they use a chord wheel to display the chords?

[@ericgcastile]

DOPE AS..

[@helmuthlindlar3654]

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.

[@jamminwithpops]

Tried stem splitter and it seems to work very well. It mutes the original audio. How do I unmute that original audio track? What am I missing? Thanks for all you do btw.

[@MusicTechHelpGuy]

It mutes the region itself. Just select the original region and press Control M.

[@Singerville]

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?

[@nyambe]

Is this crazy or what? I have to try it

[@JustinThibodeaux-v3n]

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?

[@michaelmcgregor1776]

If I start with the global arrangement, say, Intro, verse, bridge chorus, will the global chords follow a format like the drums do?

[@fiddlestyles]

Can the Global Chord Track chords appear in the Score Editor?

[@vacaphobia]

Glorified Band in a Box.

[@PreacherAtArrakeen]

Right on the ball! How stable is it for you?

[@PreacherAtArrakeen]

Answer: not very.

[@subhashchanderdhaka4056]

How to change the midi region notes with the chord track??

[@timpano1785]

is anyone having a LOT of problems with chord input? I have problems navigating, triming, selecting. it is so painfully slow to simply input those chords

[@MixedByDotRob]

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?

[@juliana.2120]

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

[@djerikfox]

..I spend 30min on piano chord track and I still cant compile a song😵‍💫....everything is so confusing, or it's just me...🙁

[@cesarbarbosa4109]

Is there a way to use that for VST’s?

[@Shayzar1]

you just change the instrument player to any you want

[@cesarbarbosa4109]

@@Shayzar1 thanks!

[@traumadiffuser3705]

You cannot use Chord Track with other VSTs. It’s just for the Session Players.

[@lforumuserl]

you can convert to midi any track played by session player and then feed midi to any software instrument

[@cesarbarbosa4109]

@@lforumuserl yes, that’s what i was thinking after i commented

[@kaitlynmika4418]

what is "tab over"?

[@MusicTechHelpGuy]

Click on a chord, press the TAB button on your keyboard, and it jumps over to the next bar and creates a new chord.

[@chris5375]

Cubase has this for years 🥳

[@RobbDizzl]

Smart asses have been writing comments like this for years.

[@jarueparr]

You also been paying for upgrades for years 😂

[@ErrkaPetti]

And? If you love Cubase, stick to Cubase meanwhile we Logic-lovers continue sees it develop… Session Players in Cubase, how many are they? Do they functions like Logic Drummer, Keyboarder or Bassist? Has Cubase had free updates for 11 long years??

[@Bittamin]

Why are you watching this 😅 just to tell us what Cubase has? Feel free to purchase the DAW and all the updates for me. I don’t want that sh🎉t

[@marcuswerker]

Good for Cubase!