![]() ![]() When your building the mood of the night, tempting people onto the floor.Īnd when you’re keeping hold of that mood, bringing the floor up to the boil, creating an atmosphere of anticipation. So when the floor is buzzing and you absolutely know that you have the perfect track to drop next, don’t disregard it if it’s not perfectly in-key.Ĭhances are that 99% of the time, the tune that jumps into your head as the perfect next track to play, will be in-key anyway. And we’ve all seen DJ’s who’s skills weren’t quite as sharp as they could be, but they took the roof off.ĭJ’s who go with their gut-feeling and connect with the dancefloor will always get my vote over techies. We’ve all been to clubs and seen DJ’s with flawless technical skills, but the night was still flat. Not slavishly sticking to a bunch of DJ rules. When all is said and done, reading and understanding the mood and energy of a crowd is the number one most important job of a DJ. To go up by two semitones, add two to your current Camelot Wheel coding number. If you want to go up by one semitone using the Camelot Wheel coding, simply add seven to the number of your current track. Or do you just want to add a big burst of extra excitement to an already energetic floor?Īn energy boost mix could be just the thing you’re looking for.Īll you need to do to pull this off, is mix into a key that is one or two semitones higher than your current track. Energy Boost Mixingĭancefloor looking a bit worse for ware? Think they could do with t a bit of a pick-me-up? There are plenty of other online key detection services, as there are quite a few other DJ software packages that have key finder functionality, such as the popular Ableton Live for example. It searches your music library, identifies the key and tempo of your playlist and identifies compatible tunes. This is an online, standalone track key finder. If you want to keep your key detection nice and simple, this might be for you. It’s also comes with quite a few advanced key mixing features, such as the ‘energy boost’ mix function. Within Serato you can use any one of three different key notation systems, including the Camelot Wheel system. Serato is one the top software brands for digital vinyl DJing, and it also lends itself well to mixing in key.įor quite a while now the Serato DJ software has been able to analyse your music files for track key information. If you’re a DJ and you need a bit of software to tell you the energy level of your tunes, seriously, and I really mean this, sell all your DJ kit today, every last bit of it, and go and take up snooker or something…whatever, just never go near a set of decks again. Yeah it will rank every song in your playlist from 1-10 based on how danceable it is. Mixed In Key will show you the key of your tracks, and, using Camelot EasyMix (so using the Camelot Wheel coding system), identify the tracks in your playlist that will blend well together.īut what I hate it for is it’s ‘Energy Level’ function. I love how brilliantly it does what it says it does, I mean it really is pretty flawless. Kind of becoming the daddy of harmonic mixing software.Īnd I’ve got to say I both love it and hate it. Here’s a very small selection of a few different options: Mixed In Key You can go right from a simple bit of online software that will simply tell you the key of a track, to a whole DJ software package that’ll barely stop short of driving you to your gig. There is a whole bunch of software out there that can get the job done for you, some better than others obviously. Well luckily for you, this is the space-age and you don’t have to put any work in if you don’t want to. Tools And DJ Softwareĭon’t want to find the keys of your tracks by ear?ĭon’t want to think too hard about which of your tunes will blend well together in the mix? The key either above or below the key you are already inīecause the Camelot Wheel is colour-coded, you’ll find that you start to remember tracks by their colour-code as well as their numerical key, which is fine because tracks with the same colour code, or close match will be compatible for mixing.The key immediately to the right of the key you are already in.The key immediately to the left of the key you are already in.
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