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On The Beat - Part 18

Feature Series | Topic: Drum Programming | Music Technology, Mar 1991

Further explorations into the elusive feel of jazz are the subject of this month's drum programming column. Nigel Lord dons his bebop beret and gets hep with technology.

Postcards From The Edge

Show Report | Music Technology, Apr 1991

Within hours of the '91 Frankfurt Musik-Messe closing its doors, this preliminary report was on its way to be printed. Tim Goodyer is the exhausted messenger.

On the beat - Part 7

Group: Sound Advice

Feature Series Audio | Topic: Drum Programming | The Mix, Apr 1995
the next generation

Nigel 'Groove Master' Lord goes jazzy on the patterns

On The Beat - Part 25

Feature Series | Topic: Drum Programming | Music Technology, Nov 1991

Leaving convenient music labels behind, Nigel Lord approaches his beatbox in a fresh way in this month's drum programming column. Off the Beaten track?

On The Beat - Part 1

Group: Sound Advice

Feature Series Audio | Topic: Drum Programming | The Mix, Oct 1994
the next generation

How to funk up your drum patterns

On The Beat - Part 8

Group: Sound Advice

Feature Series Audio | Topic: Drum Programming | The Mix, May 1995

Nigel Lord applies the principles of drum programming to other sounds

On The Beat - Part 9

Group: Sound Advice

Feature Series Audio | Topic: Drum Programming | The Mix, Jun 1995

On The Beat - Part 31

Feature Series | Topic: Drum Programming | Music Technology, Jun 1992

After some 30 months, Nigel Lord's seminal On The Beat series draws to a close. Over the months, it has covered programming skills and a wide range of drumming and percussion styles, and proved popular with amateurs and pros alike - it will be copied but never bettered.

On The Beat - Part 20

Feature Series | Music Technology, Jun 1991

The beat goes on: this month Nigel Lord's essential drum programming series takes him into the deep south of the African continent, and into deep rhythm.

On the beat - Part 6

Group: Sound Advice

Feature Series Audio | Topic: Drum Programming | The Mix, Mar 1995

Nigel 'Sticks' Lord's drum programming series goes offbeat

On The Beat - Part 3

Feature Series | Topic: Drum Programming | Music Technology, Oct 1989

Building on the patterns explored earlier in this series, adding expression is the theme of this month's drum programming column. Nigel "Reet" Lord changes his accent.

On The Beat - Part 27

Feature Series | Topic: Drum Programming | Music Technology, Feb 1992

"Build a better mousetrap", they said, "and the world will beat a path to your door". Nobody warned Nigel Lord that writing a drum programming column for MT has the same effect.

On The Beat - Part 21

Feature Series | Music Technology, Jul 1991

Previous episodes of MT's definitive drum programming series have covered rhythms from around the globe. Nigel Lord takes stock and considers some patterns that belong only to the beatbox.

On The Beat - Part 3

Group: Sound Advice

Feature Series Audio | Topic: Drum Programming | The Mix, Dec 1994
the next generation

Part three of our guide to grooves

In the first place

Editorial | Music Technology, Dec 1993

On The Beat - Part 6

Feature Series | Topic: Drum Programming | Music Technology, Jan 1990

The funk is everywhere - and MT's regular drum programming column is no exception. This month Nigel Lord examines funk grooves and gives plenty of example patterns to assist your programming.

On The Beat - Part 15

Feature Series | Topic: Drum Programming | Music Technology, Oct 1990
House

Who's in the house? On the Beat is in the house - with a close look at what makes house beats and loops kick. Nigel Lord gets wicked in MT's popular drum programming series.

Casio SK-200 sampling keyboard

Review | Making Music, Feb 1987

On The Beat - Part 5

Feature Series | Topic: Drum Programming | Music Technology, Dec 1989

The basis of this month's article on drum programming is swing - the rhythmic basis for music as diverse as jazz and hip hop. Nigel Lord swings out.

On The Beat - Part 14

Feature Series | Topic: Drum Programming | Music Technology, Sep 1990
Hip-Hop

Once an underrated underground movement, hip hop has turned out to be one of the most influential musical developments of the last decade. Nigel Lord takes the rap in MT's regular drum programming series.

On The Beat - Part 16

Feature Series | Topic: Drum Programming | Music Technology, Dec 1990

Slow, slow, quick, quick, slow - getting away from the 120bpm machine gun, Nigel Lord concentrates on those downtempo numbers in MT's regular drum programming series.

Octapad II

Review | Sound On Sound, Oct 1988
The Perfect Beat

Is this the ideal way to programme rhythm patterns into your drum machine? Paul Ireson gives Roland's updated drum-to-MIDI convertor a good bashing!

PC Notes

Feature | Topic: Computing | Sound On Sound, Sep 1992

Brian Heywood reports on the latest PC developments.

E-mu Drumulator

Review | Electronics & Music Maker, Jun 1983

Welcome

Editorial | Sound On Sound, May 1992
Time For A Change

 

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