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Favorite key to produce in?

Post by bubblypatrick » Mon Jan 03, 2011 9:08 pm

I like d minor, I heard it's the saddest of keys
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Re: Favorite key to produce in?

Post by 3za » Mon Jan 03, 2011 9:15 pm

C Major you just hit the white keys :6:


I ain't really got a favourite, but if you put a keyboard in front of me, and I can't think of anything to play their is a good chance I will just jam in F minor.
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Re: Favorite key to produce in?

Post by jaimelee » Mon Jan 03, 2011 9:25 pm

Usually C, E, G, and D.
No idea why just always end up in those choices. -q-

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Re: Favorite key to produce in?

Post by EDN » Mon Jan 03, 2011 9:31 pm

F# minor, E minor and of course D minor which as we all know is the saddest of all keys.
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Re: Favorite key to produce in?

Post by paravrais » Mon Jan 03, 2011 9:32 pm

Gm

A

F#m

That kind of thing, when I used to play guitar it was always stuff in Dm or Em but I prefer writing a bit higher now, for some reason between F and A sounds really warm and full to me.

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Re: Favorite key to produce in?

Post by the dub lemon » Mon Jan 03, 2011 9:34 pm

E, F, F# or G...bass sounds nice :)

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Re: Favorite key to produce in?

Post by amphibian » Mon Jan 03, 2011 10:17 pm

I seem to have a soft spot for A and it's derivatives. I dunno, seems to be rather melancholic and thought-provoking to me.
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Re: Favorite key to produce in?

Post by WingWeaver » Mon Jan 03, 2011 10:19 pm

Usually C or A flat from composing stuff on the pianom

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Post by filthy_ » Mon Jan 03, 2011 10:25 pm

Bb :D:
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Re: Favorite key to produce in?

Post by mta7388 » Mon Jan 03, 2011 10:36 pm

E


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Re: Favorite key to produce in?

Post by EDN » Mon Jan 03, 2011 10:39 pm

I like the fact that people are actually posting up the keys they write in, that means that not everyone in electronic music thinks that music theory is for n00bs who just can't make Datsik bass yet.
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Re: Favorite key to produce in?

Post by paravrais » Mon Jan 03, 2011 10:40 pm

WingWeaver wrote:Usually C or A flat from composing stuff on the pianom
C is for gays XD

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Re: Favorite key to produce in?

Post by Rmut » Mon Jan 03, 2011 10:59 pm

BLUES SCALE and C7 DOMINANT SEVENTH

like to sequence scales by listening scales as big chords or arpegios.

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Re: Favorite key to produce in?

Post by samkablaam » Mon Jan 03, 2011 11:02 pm

neither of those are keys
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Re: Favorite key to produce in?

Post by decklyn » Mon Jan 03, 2011 11:14 pm

I roll two dice and transpose up or down to the number that I roll from a minor.
Then I pick keys that are close in the circle of fifths and layer up lines on those.
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Re: Favorite key to produce in?

Post by Rmut » Mon Jan 03, 2011 11:51 pm

samkablaam wrote:neither of those are keys
Scale refers to the basic order of the group of notes in a key

Ab :D

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Re: Favorite key to produce in?

Post by dj nation » Tue Jan 04, 2011 12:33 am

i always seem to end up in A, dunno y, oh and also Gm i think...not sure
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Re: Favorite key to produce in?

Post by samkablaam » Tue Jan 04, 2011 12:39 am

Rmut wrote:
samkablaam wrote:neither of those are keys
Scale refers to the basic order of the group of notes in a key

Ab :D
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a scale is still a scale and a key is still a key.
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Re: Favorite key to produce in?

Post by 2nd chance » Tue Jan 04, 2011 2:51 am

I'm a fan of F and Fminor. Some stuff in E and D too.
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Re: Favorite key to produce in?

Post by back2onett » Tue Jan 04, 2011 9:59 am

F minor but I usually use F minor blues scale.
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