Comments on: HOWTO shift any song into a major key

By: Adam Yeargin

Adam Yeargin — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 22:43:00 +0000

I think that REM song transposes it to the relative major key, keeping the same key signature. It’s different than just changing it from A minor to A major.

By: Donald Petersen

Donald Petersen — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 22:35:00 +0000

Personally, I prefer having flesh & blood musicians do it. (Check out the weirdness that A Perfect Circle visited upon their cover of Lennon's Imagine.) Having machines transpose songs into unorthodox keys and modes? That there's the devil's work.

By: Incipient Madness

Incipient Madness — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 21:13:00 +0000

Yeah, if you’re playing piano of guitar that’s easier as fingerings will be the same to an extent, just shifted. Easier from a mechanical point of view if you are playing an instrument, but would require changing every single pitch in a digital file.

By: Steve Rowell

Steve Rowell — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 19:47:00 +0000

I dunno… Making an app to shift pop songs into minor keys would be much more interesting.

By: Douglas Smith

Douglas Smith — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 18:53:00 +0000

It sounds like a hack. The chords don’t fit together as such. You can’t just transpose chords from minor to major and have the melody make sense

By: Bushbaby

Bushbaby — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 18:52:00 +0000

You’ll need the polyphonic version (“Singletrack”) — quite a bit more than the $99 version (which only handles monophonic material).

By: Paper Kosmonaut

Paper Kosmonaut — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 18:49:00 +0000

It sounds bad. And weirder than the more elaborate note-for-note version, if you ask me.

By: philmillman

philmillman — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 18:29:00 +0000

Wouldn’t it make more sense in C Major?

By: Alexander Janssen

Alexander Janssen — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 17:58:00 +0000

The funny thing is, this might circumvent these nasty “The video is not available”-GEMA-fails in the Germanys.

By: William Joseph Dunn

William Joseph Dunn — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 17:46:00 +0000

Eeew.