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Date: 21-Jul-01 @ 04:19 AM -
RE: new sector movement(broken beats)
there ya go - New Sector Movement - well... it's jazz to me done on drumbox's/samplers so it's trimmed down etc. Sorta like they are coming from old (especialy) George Duke, early Quincy Jones and stuff like that, (no pun intended, but 'Stuff Like That' by Quincy Jones is an excellent album for this sort of thing to get tips IF you can find it), Chick Corea, Wayne Shorter etc - also checkout Stevie Wonder in his 70's period & anything with Hiram Bullock playing on it also checkout Airto Moreira, and if you like this you'll LOVE that shit. The track 'The Sun' is PURE Stevie Wonder moves from an album like 'Music of my Mind' ..... also there is touches on latin beats in there.... 'Mek Movements' is pure latin guitar riff in 3 time...
But to tell you 'how' to programme beats like that?... that's tough because you cant realy TELL someone... you could copy them, but really you need to really know drums and preferably be a drummer... cos it's what I call 'Freeform'... not in the truest sense, cos there is still a beat in terms of regular bars, but in that there isnt a set repeating beat fixed so much, rather the drum programming is created by someone who has a good drum feel, and as I say, probably IS a drummer with cross skills... Alot of the patterns are resolving at 5/5/2 - 12345, 12345, 12 - or you could count it at 123,123,123,123,12 - count that in fast 16th's...
Not bad stuff, in fact i really like it... the key to all thse more complexed styles of programming is to learn about 3's and 5's & 7's... i always bang on and on and on and on about 3 time, but people always are so used to count in straight 4's...
IF you REALLY want to learn about this style od drums... i know it sounds crazy but trust me on this.. listen to Zappa too...
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