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In general, I agree completely. More often than not I'll know as soon as I try to mix a record that it's in the wrong key, and when that happens, I'll key it with a guitar or some VST keyboard - but finding the time to key up to a couple hundred tracks each month or so by hand is just not going to happen.

I actually key all my tracks "by hand". The primary reason for this is because it forces me to listen carefully to each and every track, which is essential for me before I try to mix them. Something can be said for winging it, and I have done that even right before gigs, but generally I like to know what I'm working with. Two birds with one stone

also i can't afford more than a hundred tracks per month so it's not such a hassle.


At work I would go to a website with a little flash piano and just play along with my computer keyboard while listening to my new tracks. this made my offtask timewasting somewhat productive and freed up time for me to waste time at home

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Originally posted by nefardec I actually key all my tracks "by hand". The primary reason for this is because it forces me to listen carefully to each and every track, which is essential for me before I try to mix them. Something can be said for winging it, and I have done that even right before gigs, but generally I like to know what I'm working with. Two birds with one stone also i can't afford more than a hundred tracks per month so it's not such a hassle.

that's how i do it as well.

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At work I would go to a website with a little flash piano and just play along with my computer keyboard while listening to my new tracks. this made my offtask timewasting somewhat productive and freed up time for me to waste time at home

i'd be forever grateful if you could post the link for that. i use my keyboard at home to key stuff out but i'd like to be able to do it during downtime at work, since that's when i tend to burn CDs and print up tracklists as well.

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Originally posted by nefardec I actually key all my tracks "by hand". The primary reason for this is because it forces me to listen carefully to each and every track, which is essential for me before I try to mix them. Something can be said for winging it, and I have done that even right before gigs, but generally I like to know what I'm working with. Two birds with one stone also i can't afford more than a hundred tracks per month so it's not such a hassle. At work I would go to a website with a little flash piano and just play along with my computer keyboard while listening to my new tracks. this made my offtask timewasting somewhat productive and freed up time for me to waste time at home

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here you go

it's a little homely

http://numbera.com/musictheory/piano.aspx#

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Originally posted by nefardec I actually key all my tracks "by hand". The primary reason for this is because it forces me to listen carefully to each and every track, which is essential for me before I try to mix them. Something can be said for winging it, and I have done that even right before gigs, but generally I like to know what I'm working with. Two birds with one stone also i can't afford more than a hundred tracks per month so it's not such a hassle.

I'm almost always a combination of ultra prepared and completely winging it - for almost every gig I play I have at least one or two discs worth of tunes I found that day, or the day before that I haven't really had the time to give a proper listen to - sometimes it works, and sometimes I get fucked by it, but it's just the way I do things.

And I don't buy a couple hundred tracks each and every month, but there have been more than a few months where I look at my bank statement and consider committing myself for the amount of money I spend on music.

From the beginning of May to about the middle of June I think I had a problem...

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Originally posted by nefardec here you go it's a little homely http://numbera.com/musictheory/piano.aspx#

thanks! function is more important than aesthetics in this case.

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This has piqued my interest. I'm going to start paying more attention to what key my favorite songs are in. Maybe I'll find a pattern.

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