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Caine123 · Post by **Caine123** » Sat Mar 02, 2019 8:16 pm

hey guys, i got some questions about checking ot the key and producing in the same key.

e.g. i got this song

i looped the melody at the beginning and used Hornet Song Key MK2 and it shows me this

it doesnt shows 3 key estimations but mostly it is G Min, so does it mean i can set my DAW to G Min and should have the same harmony as the song?

thankS

jancivil · Post by **jancivil** » Sat Mar 02, 2019 8:18 pm

No because key is merely key, it guarantees nothing past that fact. 'Harmony' involves actually doing stuff.

SoundPorn · Post by **SoundPorn** » Sat Mar 02, 2019 8:27 pm

For what you wanna do, basically yes Gminor is the key set and make music.

jancivil · Post by **jancivil** » Sat Mar 02, 2019 10:23 pm

"so does it mean i can set my DAW to G Min and should have the same harmony as the song"
No.

In case nobody so far knows the word 'harmony': G minor as a key may have harmonies, eg., G minor triad. Not even this is provided just by setting key = G minor. Even if you have the DAW set to disallow everything not in key, you could bang away and not have anything more than the 7 notes in the natural default form of G minor randomly.

It may have other harmonies: Bb major; Eb major; C minor etc.
You might have something in the song which is dyads, or simply harmonizes a melody with one other voice. I don't know what's in the song, but if it has any actual harmonies by a working definition of that term, it is not automatically provided by the determination of a key.

It may be that in the DAW there is a chord builder or something to form the chords, or harmonies for you. That isn't stated in the question. The actual answer to the question is no.

Set Key/Harmony to a Song