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!!

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

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.

As a lifelong teacher, i want to give you kudos for your clear and concise teaching video. Bravo👍🏼

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 channel is awesome, I subscribed twice.... Once in my dreams, and once just now.

Fantastic job. My purposes are almost never using the Session Players, but this chord organization tool is priceless and long overdue. Especially the ability to enter a chord by playing it. I've been doing this for years using empty MIDI regions and naming them the chords. Great tutorial, sir!

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.

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

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

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.

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 👍😃

Rock on Josh! Thanks so much for the tips!

Thanks so much for another great tutorial.

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!

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....

You Sir are an excellent teacher!

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

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

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.

Great tutorial thank you!

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

Thanks for putting this up so quickly!

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 video will create a lot of new Logic Pro users. Really cool stuff and great instruction.

Thanks for this, very good!

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!

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

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

Great tutorial! It really opens some doors.

Super helpful. Subscribing!

Amazing thanks for video appreciated

Thanks for sharing your thoughts and ideas !!

sounds and works much better than i imagined, nice

Buenisimo !!!! Gracias

Thank you for making the efforts to educate me. Love your videos

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

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

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

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

Awesome video, great job! Thank you so much!

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!

@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

Great teaching. Thank You!

Excellent tutorial. Thank you!

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

Thank you so much for the tutorial! Big fan of yours!

Very useful, thank you!

Awesome video, thank you

Great tutorial! Thank you sir!

thanks Bro, great stuff. Nice and clear!

This was great - thanks, Josh! 🙂👍

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

This is crazy. Great video.

Thanks Bro Great tutorial

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?

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.

you are on point like always!

Man this is so powerful!

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).

It helps a lot! Thank you so much!

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”.

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

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!!!!!

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.

Excellent video!!

Thank you Josh for this

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

That was a great teaching!

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

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

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

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! 🔥🧨💪🏽🤠👍🏽🧨🔥

I think they have missed an important feature (at least, I can't see it anywhere) - Play in a tune of your own on a keyboard and get logic to create a chord track from THAT. It seems like that would be such an obvious extension. I know what the structure of my song is, and I really don't want to peck around with a mouse to get it into the chord track (Hey, I'm a musician!) But I'm not a bass player, so having the bass AI and drummer play along to my song structure, would be far in a way more useful.

Thanks a lot!

You are my hero!!!

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

I’m just getting ready to watch this. For God sake I hope there’s a faster way to enter the chords than what I have been doing. It is so monotonous,

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

Great content

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

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 🙁

I think it would be cool of them to add a feature in the midi editor allowing you to quantize note pitches to the chord progression track making everything you play fall into the chord progression eaasier.

It’s technology like this that’s destroying music. I’ll be using it a lot.

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

@ 12:52 I noticed as well that Logic doesn't create the chord exactly where you put the cursor, has anyone found a fix for this? Trimming it back constantly seems a little tedious.

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?

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?

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.

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?

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?

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?

But it dosen’t work with regular midi tracks? & what about dragging midi from the arrangement to the chord track like in studio one and cubase?

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.

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

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?

Is there a way to use a midi file with a chord progression to built the chord track.