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Key change mid-song? #musicrelated #sensible


SteveStrummerUK

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LOL! You've been following me around on other forums haven't you Steve? 

I recently bought BiaB on hard drive because my internet connection was so slow and unreliable I couldn't download it. It was freaking expensive! 3 weeks later my internet provider went to a new 5G type network and upped it from 3Mb Download/1.5Mb Upload to 30Mb/20Mb at no extra cost . . . I was happy and pissed all at the same time.

My very first tune in BiaB I tried to do a simple Christmas song. Get my feet wet with something I was familiar with. Starting on the last verse it changes key. The whole song is just in straight chords, no 7th's, 9th's, nothing fancy. I just wanted a simple basic straight open chord strumming with a simple drum/bass arrangement. Nope. Can't do it. After the key change BiaB adds in 7th's turning the song in to some warped sounding blues tune. Imagine the song Silver Bells done in a blues style. That's what it sounded like.

I got attacked by the fanboy's when I asked how to make it stop doing that. Apparently that's how it's supposed to be. If you change key in a song 'technically' you are supposed to follow the original key and add in 7th's when the key changes. That was their excuse. BiaB has settings to force the program not to embellish key changes and chords that way. It doesn't work/it's broken. But tech support won't admit it and just says that's how it's supposed to be.

So there you have it. If you change key in a song, you have to add 7th's. No if's and's or butt's. According to PG Music the creators of Band In A Box. BTW, it doesn't do it if you use their crappy midi files. Only when you try to use their Realtracks which are samples of real musicians. But still, that's the way it's supposed to be . . .

BTW, I didn't realize Imagine changed key? Did we just get snookered? ?

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1 hour ago, SteveStrummerUK said:

Are there any 'rules' or guidelines to changing key in a song?

Why does it always seem to sound so good?

For proper accuracy, I believe you should specify intended key changes Steve! ?

(Either that or you definitely never heard a singer we had back in school! ? ?)

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17 minutes ago, Shane_B. said:

I got attacked by the fanboy's when I asked how to make it stop doing that. Apparently that's how it's supposed to be. If you change key in a song 'technically' you are supposed to follow the original key and add in 7th's when the key changes. That was their excuse. BiaB has settings to force the program not to embellish key changes and chords that way. It doesn't work/it's broken. But tech support won't admit it and just says that's how it's supposed to be.

So there you have it. If you change key in a song, you have to add 7th's. No if's and's or butt's. According to PG Music the creators of Band In A Box. BTW, it doesn't do it if you use their crappy midi files. Only when you try to use their Realtracks which are samples of real musicians. But still, that's the way it's supposed to be . . .

No, you didn't get attacked.

You can't unbake a cake. If the musician on the Real Track played a 7th chord when he recorded his track, then you get a 7th chord. Simple as that.  The only way to get rid of the 7tb would be to re-record the track.

For some reason you seem to be either unable or unwilling to understand that.

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Just now, bdickens said:

No, you didn't get attacked.

You can't unbake a cake. If the musician on the Real Track played a 7th chord when he recorded his track, then you get a 7th chord. Simple as that.  The only way to get rid of the 7tb would be to re-record the track.

For some reason you seem to be either unable or unwilling to understand that.

Sorry Steve. ?

@bdickens ... If I have a song that starts in A and I change the key to B and it adds 7th's to everything after the key change, and according to you it's because of the way the samples were recorded, then why can I start the song in B and change the key to C and it plays the B's normal and adds 7th' to everything after the C?

If what you are saying is true then every time I would have BiaB play a B it would be in 7th, no? Why can't it simply play the B after the key change the way it would if I had started the song in B if it's using pre-made samples?

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1 minute ago, craigb said:

Steve just got completely into the song and imagined a key change.  Simples!  ?

:)

I really liked his later music. It almost felt like he was going back to his roots. Woman, Watching The Wheels, and a few others were great songs. I can only imagine what he'd be doing now. I'm sure he would have gotten back together with Paul. Too much money to be made not to.

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Just now, Bapu said:

What's a key (other than Am) and why would I want to change it?

 

I'll (definitely) get me coat.

Why do you need a coat living in CA?

 Being 9° outside I have to get my coat.   Now if you want to get a sweater or a wind breaker Ed I can live with that ?

Back to the subject at hand "Am is the way" 

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3 hours ago, Shane_B. said:

:)

I really liked his later music. It almost felt like he was going back to his roots. Woman, Watching The Wheels, and a few others were great songs. I can only imagine what he'd be doing now. I'm sure he would have gotten back together with Paul. Too much money to be made not to.

On the plus side he wasn't around long enough to get desperate and feel the need to release the kind of musical drivel his former cohort resorted to.

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