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I don't have a favourite key as such but I find myself making a lot of stuff in F minor.

C minor

Gotta be G minor.

Jhonny2x4 wrote:What's you favorite key you tend to produce most of you tunes in?

Mine would have to be C# minor.

And yours?

no idea.

I find one that sounds nice and then try and keep other noises near that key

serox wrote:

Jhonny2x4 wrote:What's you favorite key you tend to produce most of you tunes in?

Mine would have to be C# minor.

And yours?

no idea.

I find one that sounds nice and then try and keep other noises near that key

Thats suprises me tbh. I havent noticed a great deal of dissonance in your tunes Serox........

I have no clue about keys or scales at all!

Any good websites or books on music theory? I'm talking a 'Music Theory For Dummies' kinda vibe...

jam1 wrote:I have no clue about keys or scales at all!

THIS!!!!!

JFK wrote:

serox wrote:

Jhonny2x4 wrote:What's you favorite key you tend to produce most of you tunes in?

Mine would have to be C# minor.

And yours?

no idea.

I find one that sounds nice and then try and keep other noises near that key

Thats suprises me tbh. I havent noticed a great deal of dissonance in your tunes Serox........

Dissonance is when two or more notes are played that don’t sound right? Right?

really... as long as it's in minor.
i like that melancholy that swings with it....

serox wrote:
Dissonance is when two or more notes are played that don’t sound right? Right?

In a very simple term yes, just unpleasant sounding notes played in a scale. like using the wrong black notes in a D minor scale, while your song is in D minor.

JFK wrote:

serox wrote:

Jhonny2x4 wrote:What's you favorite key you tend to produce most of you tunes in?

Mine would have to be C# minor.

And yours?

no idea.

I find one that sounds nice and then try and keep other noises near that key

Thats suprises me tbh. I havent noticed a great deal of dissonance in your tunes Serox........

why would there be dissonance?

serox wrote:why would there be dissonance?

Because:

serox wrote: I find one that sounds nice and then try and keep other noises near that key

I took that to mean that you chose a key for the tune. Then made the bassline or whatever out of notes that were close to, but not necessarily in, the same key.....

JFK wrote:

serox wrote:why would there be dissonance?

Because:

serox wrote: I find one that sounds nice and then try and keep other noises near that key

I took that to mean that you chose a key for the tune. Then made the bassline or whatever out of notes that were close to, but not necessarily in, the same key.....

Yep thats right. I just do what sounds good to me. I couldnt not point out any key on a keyboard and know what it is

serox wrote:

JFK wrote:

serox wrote:why would there be dissonance?

Because:

serox wrote: I find one that sounds nice and then try and keep other noises near that key

I took that to mean that you chose a key for the tune. Then made the bassline or whatever out of notes that were close to, but not necessarily in, the same key.....

Yep thats right. I just do what sounds good to me. I couldnt not point out any key on a keyboard and know what it is

Its not a bad thing man Loads of quality producers do it (Kode9 and Burial being the two examples I can think of straight away).

But scales etc are easy to learn if you wanted to try something more rooted in music theory. But just do what you think sounds good. Fuck the rules.

jam1 wrote:I have no clue about keys or scales at all!

Any good websites or books on music theory? I'm talking a 'Music Theory For Dummies' kinda vibe...

I also know nothing about keys, yet I find using my midi keyboard really helps putting down melodies etc even though I can't play properly

Gbminor or Bb harmonic minor. I like all the minor keys lol

therapist wrote:Are any of you actually serious? You actually think one key sounds different to another? Certain registers of an instrument sound better, not often a big deal with synthesised instruments, aside from that it doesn't fucking matter.

This. I hate that "d minor is the statistically saddest key" crap. Anyone with a brain knows minor keys just sound that way to the modern collective human consciousness, and that whatever root note they start in really doesn't matter, except for what registers better on an instrument. Whatever is most common round these parts probably has to do with which note can hit the lowest frequency without being inaudible/feelable, which could further have to do with what you're listening through.

CMACD wrote:

therapist wrote:Are any of you actually serious? You actually think one key sounds different to another? Certain registers of an instrument sound better, not often a big deal with synthesised instruments, aside from that it doesn't fucking matter.

This. I hate that "d minor is the statistically saddest key" crap. Anyone with a brain knows minor keys just sound that way to the modern collective human consciousness, and that whatever root note they start in really doesn't matter, except for what registers better on an instrument. Whatever is most common round these parts probably has to do with which note can hit the lowest frequency without being inaudible/feelable, which could further have to do with what you're listening through.

I'm not going to argue but I strongly disagree with you.

lowpass wrote:

CMACD wrote:

therapist wrote:Are any of you actually serious? You actually think one key sounds different to another? Certain registers of an instrument sound better, not often a big deal with synthesised instruments, aside from that it doesn't fucking matter.

This. I hate that "d minor is the statistically saddest key" crap. Anyone with a brain knows minor keys just sound that way to the modern collective human consciousness, and that whatever root note they start in really doesn't matter, except for what registers better on an instrument. Whatever is most common round these parts probably has to do with which note can hit the lowest frequency without being inaudible/feelable, which could further have to do with what you're listening through.

I'm not going to argue but I strongly disagree with you.

What lowpass said.

to therapist - Keys are everything man, you're telling me a song written in a major scale sounds the same as a song in the minor ? No. It's not just about Major = Happy Minor = Sad, different keys make different songs sound completely different and give totally different feelings.

Gombles wrote:

lowpass wrote:

CMACD wrote:

therapist wrote:Are any of you actually serious? You actually think one key sounds different to another? Certain registers of an instrument sound better, not often a big deal with synthesised instruments, aside from that it doesn't fucking matter.

This. I hate that "d minor is the statistically saddest key" crap. Anyone with a brain knows minor keys just sound that way to the modern collective human consciousness, and that whatever root note they start in really doesn't matter, except for what registers better on an instrument. Whatever is most common round these parts probably has to do with which note can hit the lowest frequency without being inaudible/feelable, which could further have to do with what you're listening through.

I'm not going to argue but I strongly disagree with you.

What lowpass said.

to therapist - Keys are everything man, you're telling me a song written in a major scale sounds the same as a song in the minor ? No. It's not just about Major = Happy Minor = Sad, different keys make different songs sound completely different and give totally different feelings.

I kinda agree with you ^ well apart from , "Major = happy, Minor = sad" - we ain't primary school kids, theres more interesting ways and actually factual ways to describe em hehehe. Just because its minor it doesn't means its sad and just because its major it isn't happy.