BACK TO BASICS, PART 6: ADDING MELODY AND HARMONY IN ABLETON LIVE
bleton Live is a fantastic beat-maker, especially when paired with Ableton’s Push instrument and Simpler sampler. But once you’ve created your ideal rhythmic components and laid down that just-so percussion line, what comes next? Do you bring in somebody else to write a melody and spin some chords? Do you dig in to a sample library? These are options, sure, but it’s nice to have some creative independence. Even if you’re a numbskull when it comes to musical theory (this writer admits as much), shaping
