Welcome back to another edition of
Producer Ultra Super Tips!
Let's get right into it!
Even simple music theory can be hard to understand,
so I'm going to show you a few tricks to
make any Major or Minor scale in any key
using the piano roll. Let's start off
with the C Major scale because it has
all white keys. In the piano roll, start
with the C key, put a note on every
single white key ascending upward. You'll
see me do that right here.
It's up to you whether or not you want
to place the final C key up top, but it's
the same key as the one on the bottom!
This note is known as the 'Root Note'.
After this is complete, you can select
all the notes and move them up or down
to put them in whatever key you want!
Here, we move it to the F key. Now, we're in the
F Major scale.
If you notice, all of the confusing black
keys are in the right place... you didn't
have to memorize anything.
One important thing to 'note' is to put your bass on the same key as your root note.
That way, the listener perceives the
music as being in that key.
Now I'm gonna make a random melody using only
the keys that I put down already
on the left side
Even though the melody was random, since
we stayed in the bounds of the keys that
we already specified, it all sounds in
key. You can't do any wrong there. you can
You can even move all of the notes anywhere you
want and put them in a brand new key.
This process is called 'Transposition'.
"Well, what about minor keys?" you say? "Here,
C Minor has all of these weird black
keys and I just can't remember where
they go." Well, we're gonna use something
called the 'Relative Minor' to find all of
the minor keys in any key.
Let me show you how.
We'll repeat the exact same
process but instead of starting on C,
we're gonna start two keys down on A, but
still use all the white keys.
Let's put them all down right now.
Now let's transpose all of these notes
up to the C key.
And now these notes can be transposed to any key that you like
Now let's make another melody and let's
transpose it to F# which will give
us F# Minor, a popular key.
As long as you stay within the bounds of those keys, 
you can't go wrong. Let's hear it!
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