i am very interesting in taking this course. Maybe they tell us
which software is best to remix and all the prospects. Thanks.
The way i remix is i listen to the parts I have preferably without having heard the original before hand. I’ll load the parts into my DAW then work out the key then i’ll get thinking in my head about how i think i’d like to take the track.
Then just start making the track as if you were making an original track, the only real difference is that you have the main lead parts already (sometimes). Think about what parts you’d like to use and what you don’t, then delete the ones you don’t want if you’re 100% you definitely won’t decide to use them later on.
Roben,
Quick question that i think we have covered in the forums previously. How do you work out the key of the remix stems?
P.S Just interested as i consider your re-mixes ive heard as being very good along with Robbie styles and Tommy t off course. 
Simple method really, i use my midi keyboard and load up a piano vst onto a midi channel on my DAW, I then play the parts I have on the DAW in a loop and whilst that is playing I’ll hit the keys on my keyboard till i find my root note. The root note is the key that you can pretty much press continiously throughout the audio that’s playing and it doesn’t sound out of key.
I then work out whether it’s in a minor or major chord, firstly i use ears to hear the parts playing and see whether it sounds quite happy (major) or sad (minor).
If i think it’s a minor i’ll play the root note’s minor scale on top of the parts i have, if they seem to fit, then i know what scale i’m in.
If they don’t then i try the major scale.
Note this doesn’t always work, for example a remix i’m working on at the moment confused me for a while because i found out it was in a minor but couldn’t work out why it had a C in it (when there was no C in it’s minor scale)… Only soon realising it was an accidental.
Tip: If you find out your parts are in a major, how about doing your remix in it’s relative minor? Or vise versa.
mejaques thankyou by the way
Roben,
Thanks for the explaining that one.
Now theres a challenge relative minor and relative major?
in one of the old topics here, it was also suggested that if you have a hard time finding the root, to use a program called rapid evolution (its free). and it will tell you the root and bpm
The Circle of Fiths
Basically the relative minor is 3 semitones down from it’s major, but the graph above is a quick reference chart.
The outside notes are the major and the inside circle is it’s relative minor.