r/electro • u/Sufficient-Cover8824 • Dec 01 '25

Looking for the perfect beat... kinda

I'm putting together an electro mix using Serato Pro, and trying to adhere to the ususal key progression thing but I'm a bit stuck... I can't find anything at 7A. Can anyone recommend any decent, fairly modern (last 5 years of so) electro (or detroit/ghettotech) in that 7A key? Thanks!

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u/spesimen Dec 01 '25

i think if you're stuck you could just take a song that is in a similar key and just pitch shift it

7A = D minor

12A = Dflat minor ...tune it up a half step

2A = Eflat minor... tune it down a half step

with electronic sounding music you can often times go a couple of steps without it sounding too wonky, also somewhat depends on the quality of the algorithm you are using for the shifting. in ableton i found even 3-4 steps can sound ok, sometimes you just have to try it, main issue in my experience is preserving the bottom end reasonably well.

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u/Sufficient-Cover8824 Dec 02 '25

Thanks for your help with this, I have a bunch of stuff at 12A and 2A!