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Layering loops in Seed:Loops

14 July 2022 by Brian Hearn music, app

Introduction Music is made up of many “layers”. You have melodies, basslines, chord progressions etc. Together these compliment each other to make your music sound nice. If too many layers are playing at the same time in the same space it can sound crowded or “muddy”. The principle behind my free music making app Seed:Loops is that it generates these layers for you in the form of loops. You can then adjust these loops to separate them if you think it’s too busy.

Deep dive into chords in Seed:Loops

07 July 2022 by Brian Hearn music, app

Introduction If you listen to your favourite pop songs you’ll hear a repeating chord pattern throughout them. The comedy sketch Four Chords by Axis of Awesome demonstrates it perfectly, and is very entertaining! Chords Chords are the first thing generated when you start a new track in my free app Seed:Loops . The “Chords” screen shows you the progression detailing the chord name and number. The first chord is always the tonic (first note in the scale) chord or an inversion (notes stacked in a different order) of it.