https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlJAiwwGHMg

a lot of people probably have already heard it, but love the vocals on this.

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How does it work?

I know it's only available to read online, but why? Can it be converted to pdf? Does it include videos? How is the book organized?

It isn't available in a PDF presumably so that it can't be stolen, its only available online through the website or through an android app,iOS, etc etc. The majority of it is based on song layout clips from the website, they analyze popular songs and their chord progressions, the clips are all videos of songs that people put on the website (the normal free version of the site where u can look up a song and see it's melody and chord progression). It walks you through those and analyzes the melody and progression. The "book" is primarily about this, it doesn't really introduce any complex theory or go deeply into the modes. After teaching you how to construct major and minor scales It teaches you popular chord tendencies such as how the root acts as home base, ending on V or IV (cadence), and how notes in the melody can create dissonance or consonance with the underlying chords. It does a great job of explaining everything they teach you with a clip example right after, I just wish it taught more material.

Meh, this is supposed to be a serious forum with people sharing good information.

I usually always use a multiband compressor on my master, but that's about it

Case by case is best imo

Music theory 101 is that the song ends on the tonic. A vast majority of songs in electronic music/pop/EDM are going to give away the key based solely off of the last chord.

Not every melody ends on the tonic, and not every progression ends with the tonic chord. I just looked up 5 at random and none ended on the I or V chord.

Hi guys, I didn't grow up playing any instrument or learning any music theory. A method to finding the key a song is in, for me at least, is opening up your DAW with a basic piano synth. Then while you are playing the song, during a melodic part, if you simply play each of the keys in the musical scale one by one, there will be a key (the tonic key) that sounds good anytime you play it, The other keys wont sound as well, besides the exception of 2 that will fit ok, but not as strong as the tonic note. You can check how you did by looking up the key of the track on a website such as beatport after.

If anyone has a method to identify these things by ear to share that would be cool, the only way I can do it is by trying notes on an instrument simultaneously while the song is playing.