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Songs in the wrong key
March 17, 2016 at 5:18 am
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Have you ever tried to sing or play a song that is actually in a major scale in minor or vice versa by shifting the coupla semitones that differ? It's pretty amusing to e.g. make highly tragic sounding versions of children's songs about little ducklings playing, or "happy" funeral marches.
Why do minor scales sound more ominous and threatening. Who knows.
Well, now, there's tech to shift frequencies in actual recordings a bit to change their scales.
Here's an interesting example, Losing My Religion shifted to A major:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6KmiIq2-m8
Here's a subtle one changed in the opposite direction:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JyFrIH2-ns
Not so subtle:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7FzLX0Ql8M
NEM is harmonically so intricate that it's not just a straight major scale after the switch, and still sounds very interesting and actually pretty pretty.
I'd actually be interested in the technical details how this is accomplished. Do they simply choose a root note and divide the frequencies into semitone bins which they then shift around? What about notes that would get mapped to the same new note? With songs that use more complicated harmonizations it's not completely obvious to me. Or do they manually decide for each phrase what the appropriate substitutions are?
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RE: Songs in the wrong key
March 17, 2016 at 5:33 am
This is a new arrangement, but also veeery toe-tappingly funky happy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOE9fE72QLg
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RE: Songs in the wrong key
March 17, 2016 at 5:57 am
These are really cool. Keep em coming!
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RE: Songs in the wrong key
March 17, 2016 at 6:03 am
They're certainly not offensive in any way...
Is that Metallica singing a real modified version?
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RE: Songs in the wrong key
March 17, 2016 at 6:12 am
I'm wondering how well it works with Death Metal as some of those power chords don't even use the third note.
Can you try 5 mins alone - Pantera?
I'm interested to hear if that changes much.
I always found it amusing the way medieval music would play a minor song but make you feel better by ending with a major. :-)
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RE: Songs in the wrong key
March 17, 2016 at 6:14 am
I can't imagine it working well with instrumental blues. A blues scale would sound a bit wierd, wouldn't it?
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RE: Songs in the wrong key
March 17, 2016 at 6:42 am
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(March 17, 2016 at 6:12 am)Little lunch Wrote: I'm wondering how well it works with Death Metal as some of those power chords don't even use the third note.
Can you try 5 mins alone - Pantera?
I'm interested to hear if that changes much.
I always found it amusing the way medieval music would play a minor song but make you feel better by ending with a major. :-)
I don't know about Death Metal, but there's this hilarious Black Metal Experiment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vq8ODuozdIo
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RE: Songs in the wrong key
March 17, 2016 at 6:47 am
(March 17, 2016 at 6:03 am)ignoramus Wrote: They're certainly not offensive in any way...
Is that Metallica singing a real modified version?
No, it's digitally detuned. I think there's a giveaway in train horn sound near the beginning, which is broken up instead of continuous.
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RE: Songs in the wrong key
March 17, 2016 at 6:59 am
very clever and creative!
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RE: Songs in the wrong key
March 17, 2016 at 7:13 am
(March 17, 2016 at 5:57 am)Nymphadora Wrote: These are really cool. Keep em coming!
Youtube is full of it. Just search for <song title> major or minor or so.
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