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Picking the ideal key

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Picking the ideal key

- [Producer] So your tempo is locked, it's now time to pick the best key. Well, us producers don't really love to think of it this way, it's all about the vocal. People love to focus on the singing and sometimes that's all they hear when they hear a track. Which makes it even more important to get to the right key and pick the right key for the singer. Keep in mind, let's say a singer comes to you and they bring you their song and they say, "Okay, I'm ready to record". Do not accept the key that they've brought the song to you in as they key that you're going to do it in. It might end up being the right one but it also might not. Here's an example. Let's say someone, who you're working with, plays piano but they only play only the white notes and basically every song is in C because that's the easiest way for them to play the song when people are watching them play. So you can see how this could create problems because you're sitting there and that's the only key that they play it in.…

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