#songwriting

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Hey hey

In today’s video, I’m going to show you how I put together a piano based, singer songwriter ballad using Toontrack’s Ez Keys starting with the chorus.

So just to give some context, I received a custom song order from a customer last Monday which is in essence, a personalized song that tells the recipient’s story. These types of songs make for gifts for all kinds of occasions like weddings, anniversaries, birthdays, graduations, etc, etc.

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What’s your experience with writing from voice recordings? Any struggles? Let me know in the comments.

Thanks for watching.

Aaron

Time stamps:

00:00 - Intro & overview

00:59 - Song details (my songwriting prompt)

03:53 - In the session - Setting your tempo

04:53 - Writing the chorus with voice recordings

05:44 - Aligning the voice recordings to the song’s tempo

08:50 - Creating a chord progression from the chorus melody voice recording (1st half of Chorus)

15:05 - Creating a chord progression from the chorus melody voice recording (2nd half of Chorus)

19:09 - Changing the performance with Ez Keys