Message 4/19
Date: 06-Jul-00 @ 01:36 AM -
RE: How to Key Records?
Dude, I hate to say it, but you're trying to get all musically theoretical as a DJ and it's pointless, cuz what you're talking about is bullshit. Nice idea, though. See you're trying to select pieces to buy on the basis of key, having little or no idea of note progression, and then to top it, you're doing it on the basis of bpm, cuz if you're not, then you'll have to change pitch, thereby changing the tuning and key of a piece on the deck it self, and if you're just playing DAT's, then you can't match beats, and progressions get out of sync and make no musical sense, just a sort of mess, in key. Fine, you get all wierded out by things being out of tune with each other. You want to change that? Get some gear, and play your own stuff in tune. This is a perfect example as to why DJs for the most part are not REALLY musicians. Don't take that personally. Folks here can offer all the theory they want to you about cadence, which is quite important to a piece musically, however unless you learn how it works for yourself, the words we say here will be useless. To understand cadence, you must learn music, because simply knowing what cadence is without the rest of it is like being able to check if a car's air filter is dirty, without knowing how to open the hood, put gas in, or start the car, let alone drive it. Sad to say this, but unfotunately to do what you want to do as a DJ is for all intents and purposes impossible, and as a musician....you must learn to 'use your ears, peabrain'. That's just the breaks. Anybody telling you that you can learn cadence without learning note theory, harmony, rythm, tension and resolve, and lots of other wonderful stuff, is filling you full of shit. You want the knowledge? You must follow the path, my dear boy. Either that, or stick to being a fuckin DJ, and do it well as a DJ, using DJ techniques and DJ theory, and just keep rockin parties with other peoples' music. That's it. You will never find enough records that 'fit together' rythmicly, harmonically, and at the same tempo to EVER make a set. You can take this as a challenge if you want, but you're gonna find it a lot easier to just learn music, get the gear, and get dubplates cut for yourself if you want it all to fit together harmonically. I'll bet you like melodic trance, don't you?
Ape