How To DJ » mixed in key http://howto-dj.com/blog Learn To DJ with How To DJ Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:05:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Mixed In Key : Keyed DJ Mixing Video Tutorial http://howto-dj.com/blog/mixed-in-key-keyed-dj-mixing-video-tutorial/ http://howto-dj.com/blog/mixed-in-key-keyed-dj-mixing-video-tutorial/#comments Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:45:21 +0000 How To DJ http://howto-dj.com/blog/?p=180 steve and dev djingHere’s a 5-part video tutorial series on how to mix in key in your DJ sets.

The total running length of this series is approximately 40 minutes, full of in-depth details on “mixed in key” dj sets and how you can learn to dj in key without the aid of any expensive and uneccessary software. Andy Touchfingers explains the best ways to pick tracks, plan a dj set, determine the key of each track, and mix the tracks together to create the perfect, harmonically “mixed in key” dj set.

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Andy Touchfingers shows us some great tools that will help you with musical notation in your quest to create perfectly keyed dj mixes. In this final vid, he goes over how to scale notes and use notation tools to quickly and efficiently ensure that your songs are in the correct key.

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Here’s the third video in Andy Touchfingers’ Mixed in Key video tutorial series for djs. Andy demonstrates in this video how to listen to tracks for differen sections, many of which have different keys (much like an entirely different song within the main song). He also continues to show us how to match keys of tracks using software.

“Some kinds of music are very logged in to  one tonal center” explains Andy. Many different genres have different song structures, and some have more movement in tone. He also tells us how music with a lot of effects and strange noise are difficult to key, simply because of the strange nature of the sounds!

Andy also explains how the Circle of Fifths works, which is very valuable to know in order to understand how different keys go with each other.

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Thanks to Andy Touch Fingers from www.learnhowtodj.com for this video.

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In the second video of our 5-part video series, Andy demonstrates how to listen for the melody, hum the key / tonal center. He shows how to match the key of a track by comparing the tonal center with a note played on a computer piano (for reference). Andy also recommends writing down every track in your playlist down so that you know which key they are all in … so your entire set is planned appropriately.
The second part of this video is an explanation that a track can have more than one tonal center, and how to find the best key for tracks like that.

Andy demonstrates that using the bassline is the best thing to listen for as a starting point in finding a key.

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Thanks to Andy Touch Fingers from www.learnhowtodj.com for the great tutorial series.

Summary

This 2nd video in our 5 part djing tutorial video series is an overview of what keyed mixing is and how you can begin starting to create sets that are mixed in key.

Andy goes over why keyed mixing sounds good, why it is important, the different keys and structures of songs that make them easier or harder to mix together in a musically sound, keyed dj blend. Different genres and different tracks mixed together will compliment each other more when mixed in key. When you match the tonal centers of two tracks, their individual parts may combine within a mix to create more energy and a greater listening experience: the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

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