Songwriting formulas while tempting, can stunt your creativity. Suddenly all your songs start to sound the same and the predictability of your chord progressions can play its part in this. Predictability can be ok, a sense of resolution and repetition is the basis of all modern music, but most listeners will fail to notice formulaic progressions if the underlying rhythms, instrumentation, and accompanying melody differ.

There are times when you want your progressions to become more exciting and sophisticated, and if you’re like most songwriters and you experience fear in playing around with chord progressions, then we've found a fantastic video tutorial from Dom Sigalas and our friends over at Steinberg which will help.

In this video, Dom shows us how to create and work with enhanced chords and progressions when composing music using Cubase, and more specifically how he using a chord track to trigger chord progressions from the e-instruments Vibrant E Piano VST.

Vibrant is an extraordinary piano toolbox, with detailed control options and inspiring effects to fire your creativity. Dom shows us the user-friendly, non-fussy interface that lets you get up and running and creating more sophisticated chord progressions in a matter of minutes.