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| quote: | Originally posted by Lephaid
Don't trust mixmeister (which nemesis is using to key the songs) to give you the right scales either...I see a lot up there that are major but are listed as the conjugate minor ones.
A scale is a bunch of musical notes that go together by interval (interval being, the distance between notes). There is a different scale for every key, but they all have the same intervals (thus, sounding the same, just modulated up or down a few notes).
The key of a song is usually, but not necessarily, the first note of the song. The exception is when someone uses all the notes of a scale for a given key, but does not start it with that note.
Mixing by a standard chord progression will make things nice if you can work it well enough, but this is impossible to do live, and you need more theory yet to understand that, which I won't get into. 
And by the way...going from C minor to C# minor or E minor to F minor will sound like *ass*. If you want to know what notes with function best together, learn your musical scales. What's the best way to learn the scales? Buy a keyboard, go to a website that explains the notes for all of them, and then practice a lot on your keyboard, going up and down the entire thing for each scale. Tedious work, but it really helps you memorize them (plus helps a lot with your ability to play piano, too!)
Remember: +6 is roughly equal to one semitone, so modify accordingly when mixing. Going beyond +/- 1% of a semitone will start to make the mix sound very bad harmonically, so try to avoid that. |
noted. .. but stupid question ....
Cm (5A) ... what does the 5A mean? .... Cm means the C major scale right ? ... but which C ?
i bought a Casio CTK-230. link They dont teach about the keys.. i dont have any music knowledge. so hoping you might help me out here ... anyone?
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