Adding an additional chord track is a really effective way of developing the texture and adding musical interest. I'm gonna start by creating a new track, and what I'm gonna want to do for this chord track is to use some broken chords to add a little bit of a different spin on my chord sequence. So I'm gonna be trying to choose, again, a timbre that sounds electronic and futuristic, but one that's gonna sound quite good playing broken chords. I've already been through a few and I've chosen this one that I'm gonna use, but you can choose one that suits the timbres of your composition. This is what this one sounds like. (upbeat electronic music) Sounds quite futuristic, quite electronic, but it's quite nice and percussive as well. Each note has a bit of a punch to it, so that'll add some excitement and energy. Now, a broken chord, it's when we take the notes of a chord, but don't play them all together. So whereas a block chord would be all three notes played together, (piano chords playing) a broken chord would be them not all together. So it could be one after another, (piano chords playing) or it could be two and then one (piano chords playing) or it could be any other combination that you can think of. There's really an infinite variety of ways you can play broken chords. Now, what I'm gonna try to do here is to create a really rhythmic broken chord pattern that adds some energy and excitement that is based on my four chords. So I know my first chord here was an A minor chord, which is E, C, sorry, A, C and E. (piano chords playing) Those three notes there. So there's lots of different ways I could create a pattern. I could do a pattern that just ascends and repeats. (piano chords playing) I could do one that ascends, then descends. (piano chords playing) I could do one that jumps around a bit. (piano chords playing) Or. (piano chords playing) Or I could do one that just descends. (piano chords playing) There's lots of different ways I can play that chord. And what I'm gonna do is I'm just gonna loop that first chord in my other tracks. Just try out some of these patterns. (upbeat futuristic music) So I've got one that I quite like there, this one. (upbeat chord music) It's kind of jumping around, it starts on the top note of the chord, then the bottom one, then the middle one, then the bottom one. (piano chords playing) And if I play that fast, it sounds quite effective. Now, one thing you could do here if you're finding it difficult to record your patterns at the speed that you want is slow the tempo right down and record them in a slower tempo. So if I was to play it now, (upbeat futuristic music) that's much easier to play. So it's a strategy you can use if you want to. I'm just gonna record mine at my full tempo, and I'm gonna record in that first bar. Here we go. (metronome ticking) (upbeat futuristic music) So I'm playing semiquaver patterns there. (piano chords playing) Let's quickly quantize that. And now I'm gonna use the same pattern on each of my other chords. So whatever pattern you use for your first chord, use the same ones using the notes of your other chord. So my second chord is a G chord, (piano chords playing) those three notes, G, B and D. So if I do the same pattern (futuristic music) just using the notes of the G chord, I can record that in. Here we go. (upbeat futuristic music) And then I can repeat that for each of my chords. I'll do one at a time, but for the purposes of today, I'm just gonna record my third and fourth chord in together, which are D minor (upbeat futuristic music) and then F. (upbeat futuristic music) Here we go. (upbeat futuristic music) I'm just gonna join those regions together to one big old region, (piano chords playing) and then I can quantize them and loop them. Let's hear what that all sounds like then. (upbeat electronic music) So to summarize, I've used broken chords, I've used a futuristic synthesizer timbre. I've experimented with different broken chord patterns to find one that I like, and it's based on repeating notes, quite fast rhythms, and then I've recorded that in to fit with the notes of each chord in my original chord sequence.