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| quote: | Originally posted by Stu Cox
I just scanned through my latest purchases and was surprised to find Beatport's guesses at the keys were pretty spot on. The only one I corrected was a Cm -> Gm... |
Maybe this is because I have the musical knowledge of a rabid chimp, but it seems to be contradicting the Circle Of Fifths and my own ear in many cases. A few things I've noticed that seem very suspicious:
1. It will put remixes in different keys to the original tracks, sometimes completely different keys that are miles away on the circle. For example, it thinks Bedrock's remix of Chilling Moments is in Dmaj, even though it tells you the original is in Dmin and both versions use the exact same vocal samples.
2. It's telling me a lot of tracks are in major keys, even ethereal moody prog records, and I was under the impression that very few dance records are in major keys.
3. According to Beatport, some of my most harmonically successful transitions from old sets are impossible.
4. Some transitions I've tried based on Beatport's key information just don't work harmonically.
Again, I don't know enough about music theory to really work out what it might be getting wrong, or where I'm going wrong, but I definitely don't trust it 100%, mainly for points 3 and 4.
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