

If you want to pencil in your own drum patterns or edit the existing ones, you can just click on “Add Drums” and then “Edit to Midi” to do this. There are also a handful of patterns for the Drums track, which you can add in to quickly fill out the rhythm portion of your musical sketch (lots of “four to the floor” options here too for different dance music styles). You can choose myriad chord progressions, bass rhythms, and dance-oriented drum patterns from Odesi’s library. For a DJ/producer, this alone is worth the price of admission because it can save you hours, days, weeks, months, even years of trail and error searching for the right melodic fit for your tunes. The cool thing about Odesi is that it presents a variety of “usable” (ie ear-friendly) ones to you, minimising guesswork while teaching you how basslines can sound in the process by exposing you to different bass patterns. Plotting bass parts, for instance, can be a challenge for both novice and intermediate producers just because there are so many ways to do it, depending on the style of music that you’re producing and the type of sound you’re going for. This is especially handy if you aren’t familiar with arranging drum parts and bass lines, because there are just so many different methods to go about creating them.

Same with the Bass and Drums layers, you can choose from different popular patterns for both instruments. You can also adjust the tempo or BPM of your project to suit the music you’d want to produce. You can choose a chord progression from Odesi’s list (85 progressions in total) based on the musical key that you’re working in, which you can select at the top of the screen. A chord progression is made up of chords based on the chosen scale (eg I V vi IV, which you’ll hear in my demo video).Most popular music follows a sequence of chords, known as a chord progression. Chords are two or more notes within a scale that are played together.Musical keys in the minor scale are popular in dance music, and many big room / mainstage tracks are made using this scale.
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