How To Use Pad Perform Mpc

in today's video we're going to be talking about pad perform and those that are new to the MPC pad performance just where you're going to find functions that help you out with your skills so that you can stay in key also a couple chord progression functions where you are able to just even use different progressions so you don't have to have any kind of music theory knowledge and you can have custom chord progressions let's just get right into it so I got a piano pulled up so first thing to know that pad performance only for certain functions as far as your plug-in your key groups your midi and your CV the way you would get to pad perform you can either click the third icon where your programs are set right here or you can just do shift and 16 levels so chromatic is going to be your first option now when you're going out the piano note by note this is what it means to be chromatic so a a sharp b c c sharp D D sharp E F F sharp G G sharp a and as you can see we have two Reds and then the rest is yellow the red represents octaves if I hit the bottom one a zero and then I hit A1 it's a bit higher and let me just make it more present I'm gonna hit a different bank hitting the banks while you're in pad perform is another way to go up the octaves so now you can hear the difference a bit more clear if you use the octave button right here and just keep going up it goes all the way to eight octaves and then you can also go further down if you want it like very low but you probably won't go that low because as you can hear that sounds very muddy even a minus one actually that sounds a bit decent that's because it's an a if it was another key then it probably won't sound that good and when you look at the notes that are highlighted in yellow look at where you have your scale so if you have this on a measure it's going to show that a major scale and it's going to be highlighted and anything else that is not highlighted is not part of the scale that you're in you can still hit that note but this is just the way that MPC makes it easy for you to understand in this play along with your beat and the right key and then we go on to notes since we're in a major is going to have all the notes that are in a measure and then it's going to just repeat itself and like I said anything that's highlighted in red are the different octaves in short you're probably going to be on notes it's going to be a lot easier you won't really hit a wrong note foreign without having it being on chromatic and then you're accidentally hitting the wrong note now we go over the chords so right now we're on a major let's just actually make this easy and go to C major C major is all the white notes so this is where C is c d e f g a b c and that's what it's showing right here now since we're in chords they're going to show you one three five now if you're new you're going to be like what is one three five and if you don't know what chorus is chorus is just a combination of three or more notes played together at the same time and the basic scale of major and minor you're going to have eight notes and the eighth note is really just the first note just the octave up so it's really seven notes one two three four five six seven so when they say one three five what they're talking about is the first note and then the third note and then the fifth note and then when you play together you get to C major chord [Music] now if I hit the pad it's going to play that same chord [Music] now you can hear how loud it sounds so this is just a quick side note you could actually hit the full level button when it's not on red then you can play with the Dynamics so I could hit this off I'll get hit it hard I can hit a medium now if you're a beginner controlling your Dynamics is quite a challenge even on a piano another thing you can do so that your Dynamics is not just super up or super low hold down shift and hit full level and this is called half level even if I hit it like slightly it's going to be at a half level and then I can mess around with it [Music] now that is more controllable and it's going to sound a lot better and even so if we continue with the 135 formula so the next chord is going to be your D Minor so this is going to be one and then this is your two but we're going to skip that hit the three skip the four hit the five D minor and just to confirm on the pads and then we just go up again to e so now your e is your one and then remember we're still in scale so we're not counting the black notes because when C measures only white notes at this two so we skip that and then G is the three and then a is the four so we skip that and B is the five so this is E minor so when you have it on one three five all it's pretty much doing is playing the basic Triad Triad is just three notes so when you're going up each starting point and you're creating a Triad this is what they call diatonic chords and diatonic just means all the chords that belong to that scale C major D Minor E minor F major G major a minor B diminished and then you can just switch it up you could go to one four five now one four or five is just going to be called a sus chord now we don't have to get too crazy with the names but just understand how I did a C major which is the one three five instead of the three just play the fourth note of that now let's confirm that and then so on and so forth one two five is your suspended second one three five seven is your seven chords and then your flat sevens and those are all the options you have a seventh chord you have one two three four five six seven so we have our regular one three five we're just gonna move over and add our seven let's confirm it [Music] and then you have the starting on root note or continuous right here option starting on root note just applies to right here so anytime you go up an octave or go to the next set so you see how it says C4 if I want to go to the next set up it's always going to start at the root note but if I hit continuous and I'll go to the next set of notes hitting the banks you see how it went from G it went from E it went from C2 is just continuing off from the last note so after d in the major scale of C is going to be e so hit Bank two e and then after f is going to be G so hit Bank C G if you're a beginner just leave it on the root note so anytime you switch Banks you still can see it in the correct format because it could probably get a bit confusing if you're new and you just going up to different banks and the notes are switching around at least when you keep it at the root note all the notes will still be in the same spots so if I go to bank two G is still where it's at a is still where it's at and they're just going up the octave so that's a lot easier so chromatic chords is a bit different especially if you have it on major up here and major at the bottom what this is saying is that it's going to change every diatonic chord to a major chord so if you remember what diatonic choruses each note playing a Triad but instead of this being a minor is going to be a major all your miners in that c major scale is going to turn into a major so instead of E minor it's going to be E major the number B is a diminished chord and C major scale but when you're playing in chromatic Chords it's going to turn it into a major [Music] double check so it just depends on the scale that you have it on if you have it on natural minor it's going to have your natural minor notes laid out but then it's only going to play the major or it's only going to play the miners or it's only going to play the sus twos or the sus 4S or the major sevens or the minor sevens but next we're going to get into the option if I was to play cores on the pads I would go to progressions now progression is just a preset of chords this is what I would actually tell beginners to start with and instead of going to Classic major we can actually get out of that and we could go to all these different ones Gospel Guitar hip-hop House jazz keys and all these different ones you experiment with it let's go to trap trap one let's hear how these sounds [Music] that is just a better workflow for me in my opinion because right off the bat they're giving you all these sets of chords that this sounds good or another thing I like to use is just go to chat gbt and type in hey give me the chords that they use in The Avengers movie and they'll give you those chords and then I'll just play it on the piano now I know all of you may not have a midi controller but I promise you add in a midi controller with your MPC live too is this going to set you to the next level and let's go to this last option so then we have custom there is a way to put custom chords and load them into your pad perform you will first have to go into your software and then you will have to this play the chords out and then assign the chorus put it on a SD card and make a folder called progressions it can be called anything else but progressions with a S and then load them on to that this couple videos out there that you can watch if that's something that you're interested and I just didn't want to add that because like I said as a friend I would encourage you to just learn how to play chorus and get yourself a midi controller or just find the course on Google and then just play it in the notes let's just go back to our major and go up octave we can hit c e and G this is a lot faster and it's a lot better for you as a musician because now you are practicing what you just learned and we all know that's good for our brain once we learn something and we practice it let's say we wanted to play the C Major seven so that's c e g b so together now I just thought about this right now the trick is if you could understand the shape like this if I go to the major then I know that if D major chord is d f sharp a it will always be in the same spot now if you wanted to create a seven chord if you could start to remember the shapes this is the seven chord [Music] for F major in that E Major seven E Major seven e g sharp B D sharp let's see that on the keyboard e g sharp B D sharp higher octave another thing too instead of adding custom chord progressions because the way custom chord progression works is just one chord by itself on one pad now that's going to take forever I will rather just load up a midi chord progression and the way you would do that is just go to your folder of midi progressions so what this is going to do when it comes to low to MIDI for some reason it loads in sequence especially if you're on the new updates which could be a problem if you want to load more than one midi it's going to be on separate sequence and then you go to the grid view there it goes and then if you're on Q Link four and you remember my video on grid view you will realize you could extend the loop out with the last knob and you also add in more bars like this with the second knob so now if I go in and get a sound and then I play it foreign that's the end of this video I was just really trying to show you like there's a better path of doing things rather than just the normal path what everybody's doing until next time remember watch this chord video if you want to understand more about chords and leave a comment below on what you would like to learn next thanks peace

Channel: Jae Freshmen

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Length: 13min 7sec (787 seconds)

Published: Wed Jul 05 2023