Deconstructing: Hot Natured - Benediction (Logic Pro X)

The majority of my deconstructions have been made using Ableton Live, so with the recent release of Logic Pro X, I was excited to see how I could use its new features to help break down this track by Hot Natured and Ali Love. I particularly love the new iPad control app which amongst other things, allowed me to shoot to the different sections of the arrangement once I had set up region markers. I'm also enjoying the new Retro Synth which I used to recreate the main Synth Chord stab sound.

'Benediction' uses the easiest of scales, A Natural Minor, and is made up of three main sections, each with a different chord sequence. Interestingly the Chorus starts on the 'iv' chord (D Minor) and features a rising progression which really reminded me of another track. I eventually realised it was 'Spirits In The Material World' by The Police, which is also in A Minor and starts on the same Dm chord in the Chorus.

This song demonstrates really well the use triads in a diatonic scale which allow us to define chords built on each degree of the scale using roman numerals (ie. i , ii , III , iv , v etc). From this we can write out any chord progression. See if you can work these out with all three sections of this Hot Natured track.