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Hello,

I've never tried chillhop before but wanted to give something new a shot. Am I on the right track with this one? I'm considering replacing the key change at the 2:05 mark as I'm pretty sure modulation is not desired in film/tv. Do you agree that there should be no key change? Thanks for listening!

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*** UPDATE***

After some feedback, I did a version with no key change (Version 3) to be "safe" and one where the key change is longer and comes in sooner (Version 2). Which do you think sounds best/ would be best to submit for film/tv purposes?


Thanks for your help everyone!

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Thanks for the feedback Tom! I appreciate you taking the time to listen. Yeah I originally put it in to break it up and give the listener something a little different but I don't want it to be "distracting" in a bad way.

Man I dunno - I read your post and was prepared to get jarred and I thought the modulation sounded great. Super tasteful, really made me feel good, lifted my ears, made the return to the home key satisfying. Maybe even that is too much of an "arc" for TV though, I couldn't say. I didn't find it distracting at all. On the flip side, and I'm not a TV producer so take this with a grain of salt, but I can imagine a situation where that "lift" would be timed with something in the scene and support it nicely.

Also, is that a real piano?

Cheers,
Mike

Hey Mike,

It's not a real piano but its the best plugin I've ever heard. I just got it from native instruments. It's the Noire Felt piano. It's all sampled from Nils Frahm's piano.

Thanks for the feedback! I like it too as I felt it was a nice change but I'm going to work out a version today that will avoid the key change just to be safe. Maybe I'll submit both. I'll upload it to this playlist so you can compare if you want.

Thanks!

***UPDATE***

So to be safe, I did a version with no key change (Version 3) and one where the key change is longer and comes in sooner (Version 2). Which do you think sounds best/ would be best to submit for film/tv purposes? Thanks for listening!