ok, so does the pattern continue?
i.e.
your in 11A; add 7, and your back to 6A?
ok, so does the pattern continue?
i.e.
your in 11A; add 7, and your back to 6A?
All the pretty colours!!!! :eek:
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Here's what I did with harmonic mixing.
I downloaded the free app called "rapid evolution 2" (mixshare.com) this app can detect the song's key. Install that, and import all your tracks, set your 'key' options to show the camelot codes (11A/3B/5A ...etc)
Export that as a traktor playlist. Now when you are in traktor your playlist has a new column called key!
This is great because if you click on the column header for KEY, it arranges all your songs in order, so all your '1A's' will be all together, all your '3B's' will be all together.
Now all you basically do is just go up and down the list, its pretty much 'up one number' or 'down one number'.
So, if you start with a song that has a key of '5a' your set could pretty much look like this
5a-5a-6b-7a-8a-7b-7b-8a-8a-8a-8a-9b-9b-10a-11b-12b etc.
Hmmm - i'm not convinced that would sound good at all overlayed over the top of each other. If i had one track in Cm and modulated to Db Minor it would sound really unpleasant - unless the tracks go from one key to another with no overlapping music or a quick cut - which kind of defies the point of harmonic "mixing" IMHO. I'm pretty sensitive to key clashes and that would definitely clash.
Having said that - modulating up a semitone is a well known trick in Motown and 60's music for giving it that lift - so quick cuts might well get the same "lift" effect. Just don't overlap the musical parts!
ive mixed d minor to e minor (7a-9a) as well as d minor and e flat minor (7a-2a) and both sound fine.
OK, i see the relationship of the keys when u jump 1 or 2 semitones (2 or 7 on the camelot chart). Now, what i don't get is the relationships on the camelot chart (1a-2a, etc)
What does A-flat(1a) have to do with E-flat(2a)?
Well, the real reason is because it's up a fifth. Circle of fifths, baby.
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