No Minor Chords in Electric Mint?

Billy86

Can a NI staff member or community guru please help? I have a song in Ab minor. Using Electric Mint. The drag/drop Phrase generator does not appear to have ANY minor key progressions you can use, based on the song patterns. Am I missing something? Or do I have to go into every progression I drag/drop into my DAW and individually manipulate the major 3rds down to minor 3rds. Please, say it ain't so. If this is the way it's intended to work (no options for for minor chords), Other Session Guitarist instruments provide the ability to indicate the key, and whether it's major or minor. This seems like a huge oversight in Electric Mint. Yes, I can go with a voicing that's just the root and fifth, but it's the third that gives a minor chord it's character.

Simon A. Billington

Depending on the "quality" of the minor key/scale you can always draw from the relative major.

For example, if you've used notes/chords from the Ab Natural Minor, then the key of B will be the relative major and will have the same notes and chords. If, on the other hand you used notes from an Ab Dorian (minor), then Gb Major will have all the same notes/chords.

You can also use a scale a third or a fifth up, as long as it has most of the right notes and chords. You just need to watch out for any conflicting notes that sound bad. Noe of this is exactly intuitive, but it can lead to some new ideas and innovative moments you otherwise never would have thought of.