Advice On Best Approach on How to Emulate a Classical Piece into Ableton

Hello,

Im completely a hobbyist, beginner and no interest in releasing music - unfortunately i don't get tons of time for this hobby!

I was listening to some of the Bridgerton classical music by Kris Bowers and there are some really beautiful melodies i'd like to effectively "copy"/Remix into Ableton and experiment playing them through different electronic instruments - just thought it would be fun and challenging.

I cant read sheet music but have got some basic music theory having watched lots of YT videos on the subject.

My goal is to create a basic facsimilie of the melody using a Grand Piano instrument and underlying "pad chords" (currently violins in the song) as "my starting point" which i can then experiment with different synths etc and add a bassline, percussion etc to make it into a track

What is the fastest, best approach to get my baseline setup - here is what i was thinking:

1) play the song into a music file using Audigy

2) Import that audio into Abelton as my reference track so i can understand the baseline for speed etc

3) Wondered if i could use Scaler 3 to midi listen and output some midi - never used this feature in scaler - thoughts?

3.1) use various websites with the sheet music to get the notes / chords and the notes per bar to get that then sounding right

Thanks for any and all input

DAW: Ableton Suite 12.2

Synths: Vital, Polymax, SoftTube Model 82, Massive, Massive X

Hi Athena,

Yes, that technique would work okay. You could just play any instrument in Live though to get the MIDI notes or audio into Live directly. Then, Scaler 3 would definitely be a really good option for working from those notes - by detecting that audio or MIDI and then helping you with the key, harmony/chords and basslines. 

We could maybe do a tutorial or livestream on this workflow, as it could be good inspiration for people.... did you have a link to any music we could use as a starting point?

Rob