Message 4/19
Date: 15-Jan-05 @ 06:29 AM -
RE: newbie needs 2-step beat help
disclaimer: I claim complete ignorance on the genre.
But from what I think I know about it, it's fast innit. That would be called double time.
The basic backbeat with a snare on 2 and 4 is normal time. A backbeat with a snare on every 3 would be halftime. Doubletime would put the snare on the "ands". See the diagram.
(at least, these are the terms I use with studio drummers with relatively universal agreement)
So wouldn't a doubltimed basic backbeat give you a basic two-step beat?