Hey everyone,
I got a super weird problem in a project and i seem to cannot find any theoretical solution for it. This might come together as a pretty long post as i need to start from the beginning. So i wrote a drop in Fminor (actually F phrygian, as i‘m using F as root and then variate with F#, pretty common standard technique) and wanted to make a break for it. I managed to get an interesting base layer out of a piece of audio that i knew it was in Fminor but figured out later that it‘s root note was D#. I based every other element around this so basically my bass always starts at D#. The weird thing is that the melody on top starts with an F and then goes to an F# and never really comes back to the F at all, but it fits almost perfectly to the bass notes. Then when the build up comes i couldn‘t really fit any elements from the drop in because the build up starts with D# and the drop elements are all based on F. then when drop comes in you can kind of „feel“ that it‘s a not perfectly the same key with the same root. I don‘t want to rewrite my drop though, as the sub sounds powerless on D#. So know my question is, what the heck is the key of my break and how can i fix that the key of my break is not different from my drop key anymore?
What i tried doing was to let the bass play different notes and start on F (which should determine that the root is F, i guess?) and then my melody starts on F# and is immediately followed by two F notes. So which key would this be then? In the whole melody and bass other notes i use are all from the Fminor scale. (I remember i used G#, A#, F, F#, D#).
I hope any of this makes sense to a music theorie guru here. I‘m really tired and hope i explained this in a way people can understand it.
Best regards & thanks in advance.
Submitted March 08, 2018 at 06:26PM by Saftstein https://www.reddit.com/r/edmproduction/comments/8315jl/changing_the_root_key_over_time/?utm_source=ifttt