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Article from Music Technology, November 1989 |
More experiments with accents form the basis of this episode of Ml's rhythmic soap opera. Nigel Lord beats a path for your drum machine.
THIS MONTH'S EPISODE OF OUR RHYTHMIC SOAP OPERA CONCENTRATES ON FURTHER DEVELOPMENTS OF BASIC GROOVES.
IN PREPARATION FOR this month's rhythmic infusion, I recently spent a happy couple of hours with an Atari drawing package and a hyperactive mouse putting together a few standard beat box grids onto which could be written the patterns for each of the examples. Of course, I am prepared to concede that using dot matrix printouts isn't exactly state of the art in terms of graphic reproduction, but as a means of cutting down the opportunities for mistakes to creep in, the advantages of reprinting the grids as originally written more than outweighs this. And as the patterns grow in sophistication, the likelihood of mistakes occurring becomes a very real problem indeed.
This month, we're again going to be looking at the embellishing of basic grooves, but with the introduction of a third dynamic level and some fairly complex rhythmic figures, we should hopefully be starting to broaden the appeal of this series to include those with an existing knowledge of beat box programming techniques. The three dynamic levels - low, medium and high are indicated by open, dotted and solid diamonds (rhomboids for the tech-heads amongst us), though these will probably be reproduced as varying shades of grey. Now I know there's a danger here of leaving behind those readers equipped with only the most basic machines (particularly those in which dynamics cannot be adjusted for individual instruments), but with certain modifications, there should still be plenty of ideas contained within these examples, which will prove useful on more modest equipment.
As in the last couple of articles, we're again going to be using standard single bar pop/rock patterns as the basis for each example, but we'll be developing these into something more interesting rhythmically, as well as highlighting techniques which may be applied to many 8-,16- & 32-beat patterns.
Read the next part in this series:
On The Beat (Part 5)
(MT Dec 89)
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