Quadruple your Harmonic Mixing Abilities

So what is harmonic mixing to those that have no idea? In simple terms, it is blending your song with another song that fits the "Key" that it is in. A blend that sounds natural and doesn't sound like your mashing in two songs that don't work with plenty of dissonance. A harmonic mix is tasteful and pleasureful to the ear.

Here is short bit from an article specifically written to help you increase your harmonic mixing abilities.

Harmonic mixing – Mixing in Key – is one of the greatest things about digital DJing. While it’s possible to harmonic mix on all DJ gear (it’s about finding music that matches harmonically, it’s actually nothing to do with digital per se), digital has made it easier – so much so, in fact, that anyone with an ear for what sounds good can now produce great harmonic DJ mixes without any musical theory knowledge whatsoever.

But despite the fact that that digital music can now be harmonically analysed by software to work out the underlying musical key, and that digital DJ systems can “lock” the key of a track so the pitch doesn’t change when the tempo does, one of the limitations when you’re looking to play a DJ set that’s harmonically matched is that only a small number of tunes in your collection are going to match with the tune you’re currently playing. There are 24 possible musical keys, and only 4 are wholly compatible with any tune you may happen to be playing, hence only 1/6th of your collection is in contention for a potential keymix at any one time.

There is a light at the end of the tunnel as far as opening up more music in your collection to potential key mixes, though, and that is the key change knob on certain DJ software , such as Traktor and Virtual DJ . As it is possible to alter the musical key of a tune up or down one or two notes (technically, one or two “semitones”), without the sound quality getting affected too much (any more and artefacts tend to get introduced into the sound making the results undesirable), you can instantly multiply the number of potential mixing options with other tunes in your collection just by turning a knob on your software screen.

Shout outs to Ferdinand Van Wijnen for the great harmonic mixing tools!

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