CHAPTER 4 Mashup Theory
I promised you we weren’t going to get into ridiculous amounts of musical theory, as there’s so much theory that won’t apply to creating mashups. So, I’ll share with you just what you need to make sure yours sound great. The main areas we’ll cover are key and tempo.
KEY
The two (or more) tracks you’re mashing need to be musically cohesive. Nothing worse than an out of key mashup in my honest opinion.
(Ivan Gough, DJ/Producer)
Key is an incredibly important aspect in mashups; nine times out of ten, when a DJ tries their hand at mashups, the greatest problem they struggle with is firstly figuring out what key their elements are in, and then figuring out how far and in which direction to move one of their elements ...
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