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Stage 5 Musical Craft Course 1 of 4

Mixing in Key

Intermediate 12 lessons · 2 h 2 min

Two tracks can be perfectly in time and still sound wrong, because their keys disagree. His numbered harmonic mixing series runs first, then the later lessons that revisit it with software - finishing with a fifty-minute walkthrough of building a whole mix in key.

By the end of this course you will be able to

  • Say what harmonic mixing is and why a clash is audible
  • Find a track's key and the keys that work next to it
  • Use the key reading in rekordbox or Mixed In Key without obeying it blindly
  • Build a sequence of tracks that holds a key relationship across a set

Lessons

  1. Why a key clash sounds as bad as a beat clash

    3:42

  2. Beats and key: why 120 is not always 120

    2:37

  3. Reading the wheel: major and minor by feel

    5:11

  4. Planning a set in key, before you play a note

    9:45

  5. The jump: skipping a step to lift the room

    7:26

  6. Why two unloved records can beat ten good ones

    6:09

  7. Help with mixing in key

    9:27

  8. Mixing in key, demonstrated

    9:34

  9. Using key to keep a set flowing

    5:21

  10. Key and vibe together, using rekordbox

    7:18

  11. The harmonic button on a club mixer

    Optional 5:14

  12. Constructing a whole mix in key, step by step

    Optional 49:59

    Fifty minutes, and the best single lesson here if you only watch one.

The stages are the way through

Below this line is the back catalogue, newest first. Useful for browsing, but it is not a course - the videos are in the order they were filmed, not the order to learn them in. Work the stages instead: each one assumes the one before it.

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