This is true for any genre of music, but with most subgenres of Electronic Dance Music EDM you want your song to be mixable with existing songs. To make sure your can easily mix your song, or use it for mashups you want the Key of your song to be the same or one Camelot key away as the song you want to mix with. To create this list we did an analysis on popular progressive house songs half of this list can be found here.
The way we determine a Key is by playing the piano while listening to the track and looking what notes are in every key. This can be done with a poster like this: Notes in Keys Poster. When playing the piano while listening to a song all notes that are not in the key of the song will sound off. The most common key in this genre that we found is the G Minor scale, because this is a minor scale this key sounds more emotional.
The second most common is the D Major key. Because this is a Major key this makes the song sound more energetic. Besides looking at the individual keys that are most common in this genre, we analyzed what percentage of songs are written in Major and Minor scales. As you can see in the image above, Major keys are more common than Minor keys in progressive house.
We think this has to do with the fact that Progressive House is a very energetic type of dance music. The final analysis we did for this genre was on Camelot Keys. I want my bridge and or chorus to be highlighted, in that sweet spot. My second consideration is regarding chord voicings. I can sometimes negate that by using a capo, but not always.
Third, do I want a minor or major key. Recently realized that the majority of my songs are in the key of G; written on acoustic.
Because I will be singing the same basic notes in each song, they start to sound drony and boring. Now using a capo and discovering F etc. If there are any. I tried different keys, but it did not sound better. Then I went back to the original key due to idiomatic stuff and it simply sounded the least bad. Tempo is every bit as important to me, as the key.
Feel to me is what connects to the listener, sometimes even more so than the lyrics. If you look at the Names of the Scale you will find that each Name Give to these Notes tells of their personality. In know this you can create different effects.
What helps much of the time is to have songs within a Range that people can sing along. This actually makes a song more popular when it is in a range that people can take part in the song.
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Join as often as you'd like to build discipline, range, improve tone, and more! All levels welcome. You're too busy being creative! If it's a song going through your head, it's either major or minor. Establish that first, then play a chord. Any chord, and go from there. When you have the whole thing done, look at the chord pool you've used, and relate that to the key. For example, if there's mostly G, D and A, it'll probably be in D major. You might or might not have a key in mind when you start to write a song.
Reasons you might have a key in mind when you start to write:. As Tim says , it's probably more common, though, to write a piece first and only later, possibly need to think about what key it's in and even then, as he also says, only if you need to notate it in standard notation or analyse it for some other reason. In this answer , I said " The way music theory is commonly taught tends to mix up genuine music fundamentals, culture-specific terminology and notation, and style-specific musical advice into one big pot".
This is one of those cases, I think! You might think that "some part of the piece" and "corresponds somewhat" sounds very uncertain and wishy-washy. And you'd be right! The reality is that although a piece called say Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor seems very proud of its key, prominently declaring it in the title, 'key' is not a fundamental musical concept - it simply relates to a particular practicality of writing down or describing a piece in a certain way.
The primary concern for key selection is matching the range and tessitura of your vocalist or soloist. Typically this depends both on the overall range, and the ranges where the heaviest or most difficult passages lie. Most passages should lie solidly within chest voice or head voice and not ride the passagio in between. Professional singers will be more comfortable with using both registers; casual singers may only know how to use chest voice.
This will affect both the key and overall range of your melodies. There are similar concerns, but different ranges, for solo instruments like guitar, violin, or clarinet. The secondary concern is making the music readable and comfortable for your accompanists. String ensembles lean toward sharp keys G, D, A major.
Guitarists prefer a few specific keys depending on exactly how they tune mostly sharp keys but not D major unless you tune down. In addition to the great answers here, I did want to point out one time where key does matter. Not every key sounds the same, so composers will often gravitate towards a particular key to get a particular feel.
For nearly every modern instrument, the pitches are chosen according to what is called " equal temperament. Some keys will naturally have ever so slightly different harmonics than others.
These different harmonics add colors to the music that a skilled composer can take advantage of. The most evident of these appears in any music with a piano. One of the things you want when you tune any instrument is for each note to be twice the frequency of the note one octave below it.
However, in practice, real pianos have a slightly inharmonic behavior. The first overtone of a piano is not quite exactly double its fundamental frequency. Accordingly, one tends to stretch the octaves to get them to sound right. This stretching effect causes pianos to have slightly different sounds in different keys, because the ratios between the notes are not quite a perfect logarithmic scale.
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