Big DJ Debate WHY Are There More Tunes in the Minor Keys?

0:00 Your nightclub and play some funky

Alright ladies and gentlemen, my name is Jonathan, also known as The DJ Tutor. I give online video lessons for DJs, as well as one-to-one Skype lessons, and if you want to, I can go to your nightclub and play some funky house music wherever you are around the world. Just go down in the description. But this video isn't about that, it's about this. Something completely different, but to do with DJing. Now I have a question, and I want this question to be answered. Music. Keys. The Camelot wheel, mixed in key. But let's look at the Camelot wheel. If you're not familiar with that I will put a link in the description also to mixed in key. The Camelot wheel is not dissimilar to a clock, 12, 6, 3 and 9 but of course it depends which way you're looking at this video. Now the Camelot wheel is split into

1:27 Check it out with your music

Two different circles, an outer one and an inner one. The outer one are known as the minor keys. The inner one is known as the major keys. Now this also could be a little bit of an insight for a few people. So hopefully it's a tutorial, it's an explanation, but I also want some answers from someone, from you maybe. So if you do have an answer, put a comment underneath this video. Also... Check it out with your music. You may be overwhelmed, you may all of a sudden think, what on earth is going on here? You may be very surprised at the outcome. So, the keys of tracks, major and minor. Now, first of all, A1 goes into A1, A1 will go into A2, A1 will go into A3, but there's a bit of a jump. A1 will go into B1.

A1 will not go into B2 because you may get a bit of a clash. There's other ways of mixing in key, but that's not what this video is about. This video is about something very simple. Why is it that there are more or there seems to be more tracks out there in the minor key than there are in the major key? Why? If it's 50-50, there are If you look at the Camelot wheel, you have from 1 to 12. It's known as 1A, 2A, 3A and so on on the outside. This is the way they've made the Camelot wheel look. And on the inside it's B1, B2, B3 and so on. It's not like A13, A14, A15 and just B10 and that's it and there's loads more As. There's like the same amount. Yet why is it that there seems to be... More minor keys or tracks in the minor key than the major key. Now I do have a theory on this. This is my theory, what's yours? Minor keys...

3:37 You probably do anyway, so I don't care

Make you feel down, deep, low and full on and it's got that chuggy kind of hard edge sort of feel. Whereas the major keys are very uplifting and vibrant and soulful and energetic. Yeah, you may say that a lot of minor keys are energetic as well. I agree with you, but the major keys do seem to have give you a gut feeling of warmth. Now my theory is very simple. You may think I'm a bit... You may think I'm a bit silly. You probably do anyway, so I don't care. But I have this theory that the only reason that we listen to or there are, I'll start again, there are so many more tracks in the minor key is because everyone out there, certain people want you to feel down. They want you to feel low. They want you to just feel deep and pushed down. Just exactly the same.

As when you go to newsagents and you look at all the newspapers, nine times out of ten the front page is bad news. The radio, bad news. Go on the television, it's all bad news. Yet the word news is information. Yet most of the news we're given is bad news. Why is that? So why is it the question? Very simple. If the Camelot wheel has 12 blocks Go and check them out and let me know what you think. Practice and enjoy. Thank you.

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