Iconic Tracks - Holzhaus/mixxx GitHub Wiki
Iconic Tracks
This is a collection of iconic like tracks, that are useful for discussing Mixxx features along. They have been either used in community discussions, pushing one musical property to the max or are just well known for a particular feature.
Dave Brubeck - Take Five
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmDDOFXSgAs
This 1959 Cool Jazz tracks, is the icon for a 5/4 tracks.
The Wikipedia contains a detailed description of the section and phrases structure of the track. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Take_Five
Key: E♭ minor Tempo: 174 bpm
Kashmir - Led Zeppelin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfR_HWMzgyc
This 1975 Classic Rock track, is an icon for a polymetre track where two metrics are played simultaneously. In this case, the drummer plays a 4/4 measure while the rest of the band is at 3/4.
Michael Jackson - Man In The Mirror
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PivWY9wn5ps
This 1987 Electronic Pop track has on of the most famous key change. It comes along with a "CHANGE" in the lyrics at ~2:45. The key changes from G Major to A♭ Major.
Green Day - Holiday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1OqtIqzScI
This 2004 Punk track is one of the loudest recorded tracks. A mp3 version of this track is clipping after decoding due to the additional noise added by the compression algorithm. The calculated replay gain is -12 dB where a typical values are around -6 dB.
ABBA - Dancing Queen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFrGuyw1V8s
This 1976 Disco track is a typical manually played 100 bpm track at that time. It is interesting, because we Mixxx 2.3 beat detector can handle it well. The non const beat mode cycles around 100 bpm makes it useless for auto sync and the a const beat grid is heavily off at many places of the track.
Atenna - Zorba The Greek
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrCu94kpE1Q
This is a 1995 Club Mix of Sirtaki, taken from the 1965 movie with the same name. It starts with gentle 105 bpm and speeds up to 180 bpm. It has clear sections, some with constant bpm and some with increasing tempo.
External Sources
Key changes:
https://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/music-theory/best-key-changes-pop-song/
Skipped or added beats: