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Posted by Psionic on Mar-21-2005 21:18:

Learning to key

For those of you who organize your vinyls by harmonic key, what do you use (aside from the internet) to find the key of your tune? I wanted to see if maybe I can tackle it on my own since it's very hard to find the harmonic keys of progressive house tunes.

Posted by Jeremy H on Mar-21-2005 21:27:

Re: Learning to key

quote:
Originally posted by TruffleShuffle
For those of you who organize your vinyls by harmonic key, what do you use (aside from the internet) to find the key of your tune? I wanted to see if maybe I can tackle it on my own since it's very hard to find the harmonic keys of progressive house tunes.

Use your ear Thats all people are going to answer you..

Posted by Dj Thy on Mar-21-2005 21:32:

Actually, there's a very cool little program I stumbled on some time ago, specifically made to find the key of tunes. PC only though.

www.zonamix.com

Posted by Derivative on Mar-21-2005 21:42:

christ its the easiest thing in the world to find the key of a tune. especially if you own a musical instrument.

if you dont just download the fl studio demo (for free). or any standalone plugin that has a piano roll and can generate a sound. add an FL keys plugin or any instrument plugin with a nice clean sound and keep pressing notes until it rings out with the root bass note of a song (this is always the first bass note). it has to be one of 7 full notes or 5 half notes in between. that means really you just need to press 12 keys and it will be one of those 12 keys. easy. you now know the key, and if you have said instrument you can play a scale from that key and whatever you play will always sound right - live jam over your sets!

Posted by skip on Mar-21-2005 22:55:

quote:
Originally posted by Derivative
christ its the easiest thing in the world to find the key of a tune. especially if you own a musical instrument.

if you dont just download the fl studio demo (for free). or any standalone plugin that has a piano roll and can generate a sound. add an FL keys plugin or any instrument plugin with a nice clean sound and keep pressing notes until it rings out with the root bass note of a song (this is always the first bass note). it has to be one of 7 full notes or 5 half notes in between. that means really you just need to press 12 keys and it will be one of those 12 keys. easy. you now know the key, and if you have said instrument you can play a scale from that key and whatever you play will always sound right - live jam over your sets!

jammin'
i should really look into this if it really is that easy. dunno where i'd start though as i've got more than 850 CDs (all legal mind you!) to key. finding the motivation and TIME for it is somewhat hard as i know it's gonna take fucking ages. but when and if i get better at it i could maybe do it faster to all tunes i buy so it'd go easily from there. i will definitely have to look into this as the databases i've seen don't really seem to have the tunes i'm playing.

Posted by Zild on Mar-22-2005 01:42:

I almost always use a guitar. Sometimes I'll do it the way Derivitive said to except I'll use Cubase.