How to program emotional progressive house.

How to program emotional progressive house music. 

Learning to program is one thing. Programming beats for your daw is another thing. Remember you want to produce with no time to learn. You want to produce on your own terms. Maybe you want to learn as you go. Emotion This is where the fun begins. Lets say you want to produce happy trance or happy hardcore. Most of that music will have an happy progression always but most of the time up! Up in a upward promotion.Most likely it will have mostly Major chords. Why because when you go up on the scale it turns  sounds (the emotion) into a whole new world. It makes them sound happy. Try it yourself make a riff of 8 bars and make it go up and loop it and you will feel happy!

Emotion is the key

 When you are programming progressive house or progressive trance make sure you produce with emotion. How to start with and create your own emotions. Simply put we all deal with issues from time to time. The real key here is to. Get emotional  with your programming it is easy.

Mix in some minor chords

The number one thing you want to do is mix melodic minor with a natural major and come up with a memorable melody to hook your listeners. The best way to do this is use chords like f minor , e minor and so forth and create a chord progression and mix in and shift to some major melodies to create tension. I have spoke about tension in some of my earlier blog posts so if you need some inspiration check out those earlier blog posts. When producing music the goal is to hook the listener to something that is memorable..When you mix major with minor you will get emotional results. Why because you are mixing consonant with dissonant chords so once people here them they will be amazed. Have a look at this video to show you what you can achieve and use in your progressive house tracks.

 

Want to create emotional fist pumping progressive trance like Cosmic Gate then get this template for Ableton.