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.
Mar-21-2005 21:18
Jeremy H
Ja hallå?
Registered: Jan 2003
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
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.
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Mar-21-2005 21:27
Dj Thy
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Registered: May 2001
Location: Belgium, Earth
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.
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!
Mar-21-2005 21:42
skip
a.k.a. skip2
Registered: Sep 2002
Location: home or somewhere else
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.
Registered: Jun 2004
Location: San Antonio, US : TXTA #156
I almost always use a guitar. Sometimes I'll do it the way Derivitive said to except I'll use Cubase.
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