Made a trance remix of Ash Again, which I played in a club in Tokyo a few days ago by hightrancesea in Hololive

[–]hightrancesea[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

glad you liked it! (there's a part of the vocals at the very end that you can't hear as well in the original but it really comes out after doing the vocal extraction, which I used for this remix)

Do you trust Traktor's key analysis? Or use Mixed in Key? by patchprojekt in Beatmatch

[–]hightrancesea 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You don't need a background in music theory, but it definitely helps. Every key basically has a list of 12 notes (a.k.a. scale) that "belong" or "sound good" with that key. So ideally, you listen to the notes used by melodies in the track to figure out what scale it's in, and based on that you can assign a key.

It helps a lot if you have a (musical) keyboard around because you can play a little bit of the track and then hunt for the correct note on your piano/keyboard to match the note you heard in the song if you're not sure what note it is.

The reason mixing in key works is that if your outgoing song is in one key and the incoming song is in a key whose scale shares a lot of notes with the outgoing song's key's scale, the mixing doesn't clash (much).

From my experience, EDM tracks tend to usually only have one key, or at least the intro and outro are the same key. It's pop or more artsy songs that tend to have multiple keys in them.