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I'm having my chords really follow the base. Normally the base of all the chords
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but here with cyberpunk, I found I want to build the chords around the base as the base is really the
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foundation of a song and with cyberpunk chords, you're really looking for something more glitchy and ethereal
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And so that's what I found here with this angelic ghosts preset here inside of
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alchemy, which is just a stock plugin here inside of logic. So you can see with this bass here, the kind of the root note here is G and I've got some
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other notes bouncing around it, but it's basically G all the way through and that's good for
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building tension. And so with the chords, I kind of just, again, had that going on here
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So I have the root note here is G for all of these chords and I'm just building these
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chords around the G and that's how I end up with these chords
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And then I just took the top two notes in all these chords and just moved them up an octave to make a bigger thicker sounding chord And then I also layered in some plucks here using the Andromeda Star Cruise preset from Synth Control Cyberpunk pack
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And it sounds like this. And so I panning those left and right
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and get that really ethereal sound and you add in that bass and the drums and it sounds pretty cool
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And then one last thing I did here is as I'm going, really going into that buildup
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I am automating the pitch here on these chords. So the pitch is going up and then it drops
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So this kind of adds to that unsettling glitchy style effect of cyberpunk. Then during the drop
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Again, I have the chords following the bass. You can see these root notes here are the exact same pattern that the bass is playing
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And then I just took these, moved them up an octave, and then built triad chords out
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of them using a lot of suspended chords This is common in synthwave and also cyberpunk is you want to use suspended chords That means you just take the middle note If you using a typical triad if it a major or minor it doesn matter And you just want to move that middle note around
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either up or down inside of here. And I've tried to keep a lot of the notes similar throughout
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So you can see this note is the same across basically four different chords, same thing up
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here, same thing up here. So the chords don't move around very much. You want to keep them kind
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of close together all the different notes inside of these chords. And as far as the patch I'm using, I'm using Strong Contender, another preset from Synth
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Control's Cyberpunk pack. Really awesome pack. Definitely check it out. Again, that's linked in the description below, and it sounds like this
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And then in the second chorus here, I layer it up doing the exact same pattern, only I
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pan these left and right using the Dawn of Man preset from Synth Control's Cyberpunk Pack
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Pretty cool and that the same all the way through And then we have the bridge here though where I just using that Dawn of Man here
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And I'm using more traditional chords. Again, just trying to keep the similar notes running all the way through
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If you want a fuller tutorial on how to create synthwave and cyberpunk style chords, I have
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a full video tutorial on this. I'll link to that in the description below. So here's what those sound like. And then I am automating the drive, I believe
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and the cutoff. So this is increasing an energy over time. That's better. It makes that for much larger bridge section there. If you found this video
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helpful be sure to use whatever special powers you have to hit that like button like your et
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trying to phone home and if you want more help creating synthwave music then be sure to click
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the video playing in a box on the screen right now as that is my full in-depth tutorial on
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creating a synthwave song from start to finish with that have an awesome day and keep creating
