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(Song) In a Major/Minor Key

(Song) In a Major/Minor Key

Updated Jan 29, 2025 at 07:13PM EST by LiterallyAustin.

Added Oct 12, 2016 at 03:03PM EDT by Adam.

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In a Major/Minor Key is a sub-genre of audio remixes in which the key of a popular song is digitally altered to produce a song that sounds significantly different from the original track.

Origin

On October 23rd, 2010, Youtube user M'siou Rigolitch uploaded his rework of Metallica's "Nothing Else Matters," called "Nothing Else Majeur,"[1] in which he says he used the Rockband Multitrack and Melodyne_ to put the song in a major key.



Precursor

On November 24th, 2007, YouTuber Gallas created the earliest known instance of the G Major video series, which features a remix of the intro song to Hotel Mario that has been digitally edited in the key of G major (G, A, B, C, D, E, and F♯). The video launched a series of "In G Major" remix videos, as users exploited how creepy the manipulation sounded.



Spread

On June 10th, 2011, a Vimeo account "major scaled"[2] launched with "Nothing Else Majeur" as their first video. On January 18th, 2013, they uploaded a mix of R.E.M.'s "Losing My Religion" in a major key (shown below). The video garnered media attention from Vice[3] and Nerdist,[4] among others.



Major Scaled #2 : REM – "Recovering My Religion" from major scaled on Vimeo.


On January 29th, 2013, Youtube user Oleg Berg launched a channel devoted to reworking songs into their opposite key when he uploaded a reworked version of Queen's "The Show Must Go On."[5] The second video he uploaded that same day was of Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit," and it became one of his most popular works, garnering over 500,000 views as of October 12th, 2016 (below, top left). Some of his other popular reworks include Michael Jackson's "Beat It" (below, top right), the theme from Tetris (below, bottom left), and the Red Hot Chili Peppers' "Californication" (below, bottom right).





On May 2nd, 2015, Youtube user Muted Vocal uploaded a video called "5 Horror and Movie Themes in a Major Key," which took the themes of X-Files, Halloween, Saw, The Exorcist, and A Nightmare on Elm Street and reworked them into a major mode. The video, shown below, was covered by The AV Club.[6]



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Ryik
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In a sense. Songs based off of the minor key tend to have a serious or melancholic tone, simply because the "happy-sounding" notes usually aren't available to them without sounding off-key.The opposite is true of major scale songs, which can end up sounding happy even if it wasn't intended.

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