Make Dark and Spooky Music for Games and Films

Explore dark chord progressions with suspended chords sus2 and sus4 and minor chords. Experiment with order, octave, and instrument textures in natural minor to shape mood for games and films.

Explore an a minor progression with tonic a minor, d minor, and e major; include dominant seventh and diminished substitutions, inversions, and harmonic minor melodies for a dark mood.

Develop dark chord progressions by combining nonrelated minor chords, starting from a minor root. Create melodies with arpeggios or scale-based notes, and explore tritone separation or chords a third apart.

Explore how Locrian, Super Locrian, and Ultra Locrian scales shape dark, creepy music by experimenting with arpeggios, drones, and unsettling chord progressions, while embracing instability and diminished chords.

Explore modes of melodic minor and harmonic minor, including superlocrian and ultralocrian, to craft creepy, dark scales and expressive melodies with arpeggios and varied chords.

Explore the phrygian scale and its color by crafting an e phrygian melody on a single chord with arpeggios, using e minor to d minor progressions, sevenths and non-chord tones.

Create an ambient souls-like track using harp and choir, with optional strings, centered on a simple a minor progression (tonic, subdominant, dominant 7th) to evoke refuge amid darkness.

Create a dark organ track using the Hungarian minor scale, starting with an A minor progression and a diminished chord, then expand with arpeggios and melody in FL Studio.