If you are new to programming drums, much hip hop style beats (also in this video) are played with a 16th shuffle. Don't expect your loops to be as groovy without being aware of it. A 16th shuffle means that every second 16th note is played a little bit "too late". In the grid he is showing that is every note with a "+". If you count the 16th notes in a 4/4 bar it is every 16th with an even number. Select all these notes in your DAW and drag them just a little bit to the right until the shuffle feels right.
Actually it's a bit confusing because he's representing the patterns as 2 measures with 8th note denominations when it's really what you're saying with 1 measure with 16th note denominations
Here are the timestamps for the patterns :) 1:35 Four on the floor 3:06 Basic Rock 4:50 The Levee Break 5:48 Impeach the president 7:14 The Funky Drummer 9:13 Son Clave 10:46 Bossa Nova 12:11 Mardi Grass
swing and slide are the most important for getting a good feel to a beat. Sometimes delaying the high hats by about 5-15 ms can make a big difference. Another trick is to just slide the kicks a bit early. When compared to a square beat where everything is exactly on time you will notice a nice difference.
As a musician who has never had a drum session longer than 10 minutes, this is going to be incredibly useful for my solo 'career'. Thank you so much for this. You deserve a Nobel prize, you saint.
For a decade now i really had no idea where to start with electronic music creation.. till l learned about drum machines. Patterns. Rhythm. Thank you for this video for explaining the concepts behind these patterns. I especially love the circle to illustrate them. It reminds me of a color wheel
really like the circular diagram. visualizing patterns in this way makes much more sense than the drum machine grid. would be interested in seeing patterns outside of 4/4 and attempting to find visual symmetry
It's more of a western thing to view music in a more linear fashion from my understanding. A lot of more rhythmic percussion based music particularly from South America & the Caribbean if i recall correct has the cycle-based way of viewing music as more common both in how it's often written/read and in just how they mentally visualise/think of/explain the music. Also if anyone's interested in seeing any more examples of the circle based diagram way of learning drum rhythms, then the channel 'Drumset Fundamentals' is good for me with their series of drum grooves with just the drums paired with the diagram and a light that moves with the music across the circle so you know which part of the diagram is playing at which point. I'm not a drummer but as someone who programs drums usually in a DAW, it does give me a more intrinsic understanding of the rhythms and the constructions of rhythms like Four to the Floor, the Bossa Nova rhythm, Bo Diddley beat, etc.
I don't hate the circular visualization to just look at it, but playing music to it would be so much harder than linear tabs or sheet music. I rely on the height of an element so much for fast recognition and processing, while with the circle, my eyes zip back and forth and up and down in all the directions all the time. (I play drums)
I don't like the circular way of looking at it. As a musician, I see that as constrictive. It suggests that your music is locked into a repetitive loop. I try to avoid repetition in my music.
Very helpful! I'm familiar with programming some of these beats, and this helped me get my head straight on some of my approaches. Also opened my mind to some other cool options when looking at your pattern graphics. Thanks for your efforts!
Thanks. Though it seems to me you are confusing 8th notes with 16th notes. You suggest counting to 4 twice (1+2+3+4+1+2+3+4+). But with the drum patterns that really is one single measure in 4/4 => 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
Agreed, especially when calling that first beat four on the floor ( it’s actually boots and cats, four on the floor is a reggae beat to my mind at least) and counting it as two measures such that there are, in fact, not four on the floor.
It is a superb idea of presenting it in a circular form which made it so easy to understand. Hats of to you. And thanks for those spreadsheet. So much helpful in learning those patterns
My son is learning to play drums. I play guitar. Thanks for making these videos. It's helping him understand the different drum patterns. He and I are both visual. These videos are great! Thank You
Just in case anyone is confused by the numbering,,, the whole circle is one bar with 16th note subdivisions. The numbers are on the 1/8th notes not the 1/4 notes. he explained this in a video preceding this one.. Hope that helps!
Why do you assume the numbers represent quarter notes or 8th notes or have anything to do with musical notation? They're just numbers representing parts of the rhythm. It seems pretty logical to me. What I don't understand is the point of the video.
One important thing i wish he mentioned is that the the realization that a snare in the 3rd beat is what grounds the feel for all of those rythms and is what trully opens space for displacement in the kick, hats, claves and whatever else you may have.
Interesting to see these classic breaks visualized. However what makes 'levee breaks' and 'funky drummer' so compelling is the additional micro information (swing, timing and volume variations) that are not represented in the diagrams.
Just started watching this and a, typing while I watch. Thanks for doing this! This is by far the best tutorial I’ve found on drums EVER. I’ve done Udemy courses, Groove 3 and others, and while they all have some amazing stuff, you are the man when it comes to context and demos. I am enjoying all the background on each.
YT algorithm working for once! Discovered this gem of a video from 10 years ago. For a non drummer, this explains stuff really simply and very well especially with the spreadsheet. Thank you for sharing this with the world. Lessons from back then are still better than the overproduced hyped up ads garbage of today.
I also created circular rhythm pattern charts, for describing song forms and arragements, similar idea to these drum diagrams. I called mine 'form wheels' and used for compositional analysis. Published at a conference and everyone (non musicians) enjoyed it as a way of better understanding their favorite music. Academics scoffed at the diagrams saying they had no purpose, which figures (academics are soooo out of touch with reality). The diagrams are very helpful for visually presenting music in an immediately digestible way.
It will take me a bit of study to 'see' the circular representation but I think it will be very useful to see how the pattern elements relate to each other. Thanks very much for this. A very clear communication of the idea with super examples. I subscribed.
I just started working with Beat Scholor and this notation fits perfectly. Thank you. I would love a similar break down on classic afrobeat as exemplified by Tony Allen.
incredibly useful and informing, I was iffy about the circle diagram at first but I really like it actually. Thank you for the tutorial and spreadsheet!
I am interested in the subject because I would love to learn to program drumbeats better, but I’m halfway through the second example (“rock”) and it is breaking my brain how profoundly wrong these counts are. I appreciate the time that went into creating this video, but it goes against everything I have ever learned, felt, and known about playing, listening to, and counting music. The back beat ALWAYS falls on 2 and 4, never on 3 as this video claims. It’s foundational: 1 e & a TWO e & a 3 e & a FOUR e & a. Do other people count the back beat on 3? Is that a thing? Or is this finally exposing why some people can’t seem to ever learn to clap along to rock and soul and why so many programmed beats sound square?
You’re a bloody genius mate! Great visualisation. If you were to put a rotating hand like on a clock/watch following the beat on this psychedelic pie chart you’d have it nailed 😎
I don't get it. Why is he a genius and what is the point of this video? He's just listing a few popular rhythms and putting them up as diagrams. I mean no disrespect, but what is the point?
Your videos are so well done. Thanks for the knowledge. As others have said, you make it what can be difficult to understand digestible. Thanks for the leap forward Ethan!
So good! I find it interesting that Sinead O'Connor used Brown's Funky Drummer on her rendition of the traditional Irish tune "I am stretched on your grave", to great effect. She starts the singing a bit earlier than the first beat, landing "streched" and "grave" right on the strong beats.
Ethan, thanks so much for this in 2022. I was able to download your linear diagram Google Doc. Awesome reference! Such a time saver. Can you please update the above link to the radial visualization from your thesis as it no longer works. In the meantime, I'll search around your website to find its possible new home.
Please come back with new and improved videos! These are dope. Would be dope to have some new videos where the visuals of the beats are highlighted as the beat plays
I should be sleeping now, but here I am, laying in bed, watching this and somehow getting a fresh view on rhythm and beat making. Super helpful! Thank you so very much!
Just wanted to let you know that this video was the tipping point that dropped me into the wonderful world of music creation. Once I realized you could create music by pattern and relationship and didn't have to master the mechanics of playing an instrument, the door was opened for me. Thank you!
The radial visualization scheme is GENIUS! The drum machine step-sequencer view is more familiar to me, but composing loops with the radial view would be way more intuitive.
@@AlexRuthmann That’s cool :) Haven’t tried anything like that on my iPad browser before.. It’s kind of like a very limited version of patterning app, but still fun.
probably because Amen Break is like 4 bars long IIRC and is chopped up and re-arranged quite often so isn't strictly known for a specific one bar section of the break that could be represented on one circle on here. It'd take them 4 circles, lol.
To visualize further, the softer hits should have been shown with a lighter colour to indicate that it's played softer/at a lower volume. The beat at 5:50 is missing a few kick markers... :P
If anyone likes this circle based design, the videos from the channel Drumset Fundamentals are helpful for me with having the diagram paired with image and then a visual that circles around the diagram in time with the music to indicate which beat is being played with the music and diagram together.
There’s a brilliant iOS drum app called Patterning that uses the exact circular graph as this here. Well worth checking out as one can alter the number of beats per bar, per instrument for some very interesting polyrhythms.
The "basic rock" beat at 2:17 (3:06 for the audio) is in fact the "motorik" beat from krautrock music (Neu!, Can, Kraftwerk, etc.) and it was a seminal inspiration to a lot of indie rock bands like Stereolab or Yo La Tengo.
A recent midi DAW trick I tried, was to split off the 2nd half, of the last of 4 equal bars, then shift that one step forward (or back) and reformat it all, so that everything shifts to the off-beat for just that fraction, then back to the regular beat for 3.5 bars.
Hi icarusi, I do not get my head around it, but this sounds very interessting! Do you have any example or further explanation (maybe a midi file) please? Thanks in advance!!
If you are new to programming drums, much hip hop style beats (also in this video) are played with a 16th shuffle. Don't expect your loops to be as groovy without being aware of it. A 16th shuffle means that every second 16th note is played a little bit "too late". In the grid he is showing that is every note with a "+". If you count the 16th notes in a 4/4 bar it is every 16th with an even number. Select all these notes in your DAW and drag them just a little bit to the right until the shuffle feels right.
thank you for this
My lord, thank you for you observation
The "+" indicates an eighth note
Actually it's a bit confusing because he's representing the patterns as 2 measures with 8th note denominations when it's really what you're saying with 1 measure with 16th note denominations
16th notes grouped in 3s
On 'The Levee break', the 'dissonant' kicks are 'delay returns', rather than actual kicks.
good to know thanks for sharing
Kollusion Transistor Funk facts bro facts
@@nanoloopbandit Gotta have it right hey. It sounds a bit technically over the top, but technically it's correct !! Poet time !
Exactly - spot on. No second kick beat, just a heavy delay effect. The famous "Headley Grange stairwell" effect (but actually a Binson echo)
I never knew that and i’ve sampled it many times, I can actually hear it on my iphone now that you’ve mentioned it lol
Here are the timestamps for the patterns :)
1:35 Four on the floor
3:06 Basic Rock
4:50 The Levee Break
5:48 Impeach the president
7:14 The Funky Drummer
9:13 Son Clave
10:46 Bossa Nova
12:11 Mardi Grass
Thanks
This is gold for a beginner drummer
seriously I wish I found this when I started
swing and slide are the most important for getting a good feel to a beat. Sometimes delaying the high hats by about 5-15 ms can make a big difference. Another trick is to just slide the kicks a bit early. When compared to a square beat where everything is exactly on time you will notice a nice difference.
even slide de snare it can give a good flavor
Slide anything !!! Quintolet life
yes, and changing the velocity on your hats
Delay works also great on hihats.
@@negushak the snare delay or early?
As a musician who has never had a drum session longer than 10 minutes, this is going to be incredibly useful for my solo 'career'. Thank you so much for this. You deserve a Nobel prize, you saint.
For a decade now i really had no idea where to start with electronic music creation.. till l learned about drum machines. Patterns. Rhythm.
Thank you for this video for explaining the concepts behind these patterns. I especially love the circle to illustrate them. It reminds me of a color wheel
really like the circular diagram. visualizing patterns in this way makes much more sense than the drum machine grid. would be interested in seeing patterns outside of 4/4 and attempting to find visual symmetry
Then Xenormorph is the leading keyword.
XLN Audio XO will give you that and much more ;)
It's more of a western thing to view music in a more linear fashion from my understanding. A lot of more rhythmic percussion based music particularly from South America & the Caribbean if i recall correct has the cycle-based way of viewing music as more common both in how it's often written/read and in just how they mentally visualise/think of/explain the music.
Also if anyone's interested in seeing any more examples of the circle based diagram way of learning drum rhythms, then the channel 'Drumset Fundamentals' is good for me with their series of drum grooves with just the drums paired with the diagram and a light that moves with the music across the circle so you know which part of the diagram is playing at which point. I'm not a drummer but as someone who programs drums usually in a DAW, it does give me a more intrinsic understanding of the rhythms and the constructions of rhythms like Four to the Floor, the Bossa Nova rhythm, Bo Diddley beat, etc.
I don't hate the circular visualization to just look at it, but playing music to it would be so much harder than linear tabs or sheet music. I rely on the height of an element so much for fast recognition and processing, while with the circle, my eyes zip back and forth and up and down in all the directions all the time. (I play drums)
I don't like the circular way of looking at it. As a musician, I see that as constrictive. It suggests that your music is locked into a repetitive loop. I try to avoid repetition in my music.
5 years later and this is still helping people including me, i could never get a bounce to my drums and this helped me alot thank you!😁✔
ITS HELPING ME TOO !!!
rewatched this after 2 years and it's still so inspiring, thanks!
Very helpful! I'm familiar with programming some of these beats, and this helped me get my head straight on some of my approaches. Also opened my mind to some other cool options when looking at your pattern graphics. Thanks for your efforts!
Such an awesome vid. I'm picturing a museum of beats where you can walk into rooms and hear each beat with an explanation and story. Awesome job
lol that's a cool idea
his explanation is excellent and I love the color pattern it helps me to understand the patterns better.
Thanks. Though it seems to me you are confusing 8th notes with 16th notes. You suggest counting to 4 twice (1+2+3+4+1+2+3+4+). But with the drum patterns that really is one single measure in 4/4 => 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
Exactly! Presented notation is rather a non-standard way of counting, that should be avoided IMO.
Agreed, especially when calling that first beat four on the floor ( it’s actually boots and cats, four on the floor is a reggae beat to my mind at least) and counting it as two measures such that there are, in fact, not four on the floor.
Thank you so much! I have struggled with drum programming in a big way. This spreadsheet is a Godsend!
It is a superb idea of presenting it in a circular form which made it so easy to understand. Hats of to you. And thanks for those spreadsheet. So much helpful in learning those patterns
My son is learning to play drums. I play guitar. Thanks for making these videos. It's helping him understand the different drum patterns. He and I are both visual. These videos are great! Thank You
Just in case anyone is confused by the numbering,,, the whole circle is one bar with 16th note subdivisions. The numbers are on the 1/8th notes not the 1/4 notes. he explained this in a video preceding this one.. Hope that helps!
BOSSA NOVA IS AMAZING!!! It's an incredible leap from the symmetry of son clave to the 5 measured beats of bossa nova with that tiny alteration
It looks like he’s feeling the 8th notes as quarter notes. Kick drums generally land on 1 and 3, snare on 2 and 4.
Agreed
His graphs are in double time...notice it goes from 1-4 twice
At one point in the video he says these are 2 measures.
He explains in th-cam.com/video/kpSudIoepgY/w-d-xo.html
At 6 mins 50 secs and following
Why do you assume the numbers represent quarter notes or 8th notes or have anything to do with musical notation? They're just numbers representing parts of the rhythm. It seems pretty logical to me. What I don't understand is the point of the video.
One important thing i wish he mentioned is that the the realization that a snare in the 3rd beat is what grounds the feel for all of those rythms and is what trully opens space for displacement in the kick, hats, claves and whatever else you may have.
Interesting to see these classic breaks visualized. However what makes 'levee breaks' and 'funky drummer' so compelling is the additional micro information (swing, timing and volume variations) that are not represented in the diagrams.
Super rare for someone to share this knowledge to this degree. Awesome!
Just started watching this and a, typing while I watch. Thanks for doing this! This is by far the best tutorial I’ve found on drums EVER. I’ve done Udemy courses, Groove 3 and others, and while they all have some amazing stuff, you are the man when it comes to context and demos. I am enjoying all the background on each.
Hes explained them so much better than any one else on youtube
This overview/lesson is pure gold!
YT algorithm working for once! Discovered this gem of a video from 10 years ago. For a non drummer, this explains stuff really simply and very well especially with the spreadsheet. Thank you for sharing this with the world. Lessons from back then are still better than the overproduced hyped up ads garbage of today.
I also created circular rhythm pattern charts, for describing song forms and arragements, similar idea to these drum diagrams. I called mine 'form wheels' and used for compositional analysis. Published at a conference and everyone (non musicians) enjoyed it as a way of better understanding their favorite music. Academics scoffed at the diagrams saying they had no purpose, which figures (academics are soooo out of touch with reality). The diagrams are very helpful for visually presenting music in an immediately digestible way.
Muchas gracias desde Argentina. Sigo Espiando tu material. Saludos
I never have seen rhythms expressed as a circle and it really helped!! Thanks
This is such a great lesson, that has given me a shit ton of ideas. A huge thanks.
It will take me a bit of study to 'see' the circular representation but I think it will be very useful to see how the pattern elements relate to each other. Thanks very much for this. A very clear communication of the idea with super examples. I subscribed.
Thanks! I've been using your spreadsheet and reading your text book for a couple years. I don't know how I missed this series of videos.
This video was just what I was looking for. Thanks for sharing. It was awesome.🎉🎉🎉
I just started working with Beat Scholor and this notation fits perfectly. Thank you. I would love a similar break down on classic afrobeat as exemplified by Tony Allen.
Thank you. This has advanced my understanding of rhythm and percussion immensely!
Your spreadsheet just saved me so much time! Thank you
Wow! Just found this channel today July 2021, wow! Great analyses of all of these different patterns.
Very informative for someone like me who at 62 is just learning to program a drum machine. Thanks for sharing!
similar situation, 10 years younger though.
incredibly useful and informing, I was iffy about the circle diagram at first but I really like it actually. Thank you for the tutorial and spreadsheet!
you've done an amazing job in explaining this subject, very professional.
I am interested in the subject because I would love to learn to program drumbeats better, but I’m halfway through the second example (“rock”) and it is breaking my brain how profoundly wrong these counts are. I appreciate the time that went into creating this video, but it goes against everything I have ever learned, felt, and known about playing, listening to, and counting music. The back beat ALWAYS falls on 2 and 4, never on 3 as this video claims. It’s foundational: 1 e & a TWO e & a 3 e & a FOUR e & a. Do other people count the back beat on 3? Is that a thing? Or is this finally exposing why some people can’t seem to ever learn to clap along to rock and soul and why so many programmed beats sound square?
This video is incredible. Amazing work, man. You’ve spread some real good in the world.
Love this video! Programmed all the beats. Fabulous. I love learning like this. Thank you Ethan!
Thanks for the spreadsheet, very much appreciated, great video!
Hi Ethan, (7 years on) great breakdown of these patterns. Thanks
You’re a bloody genius mate! Great visualisation. If you were to put a rotating hand like on a clock/watch following the beat on this psychedelic pie chart you’d have it nailed 😎
I don't get it. Why is he a genius and what is the point of this video? He's just listing a few popular rhythms and putting them up as diagrams. I mean no disrespect, but what is the point?
“Psychedelic pie-chart!” That’s a good one.
Your videos are so well done. Thanks for the knowledge. As others have said, you make it what can be difficult to understand digestible. Thanks for the leap forward Ethan!
So good! I find it interesting that Sinead O'Connor used Brown's Funky Drummer on her rendition of the traditional Irish tune "I am stretched on your grave", to great effect. She starts the singing a bit earlier than the first beat, landing "streched" and "grave" right on the strong beats.
great, now do AFX Twin
vecvan yeah
Hahahaha. There is no chart big enough
lmaooo.
Aphex twin
Right? Lol
I have when the levee breaks drum pattern, I’m in love with how loud and clear the wav file is
impeach the president sounds like there's a third beat on the bottom of the circle graph.
you are right
The kick on the Second down beat that also has the open hat is missing
What does this comment mean? I'm curious.
I think it's an illusion caused by the closed highhat on the first of four
Paige Gulley i also thought so but there’s another mistakes so it’s not. It’s just lover velocity
Big big thanks for this drum's theory, it's definitly the kind of thing's that i've been looking for.
Ethan, thanks so much for this in 2022. I was able to download your linear diagram Google Doc. Awesome reference! Such a time saver. Can you please update the above link to the radial visualization from your thesis as it no longer works. In the meantime, I'll search around your website to find its possible new home.
Simply brilliant for a non drummer. Clear and concise. Many thanks
Please come back with new and improved videos! These are dope. Would be dope to have some new videos where the visuals of the beats are highlighted as the beat plays
I should be sleeping now, but here I am, laying in bed, watching this and somehow getting a fresh view on rhythm and beat making. Super helpful! Thank you so very much!
Just wanted to let you know that this video was the tipping point that dropped me into the wonderful world of music creation. Once I realized you could create music by pattern and relationship and didn't have to master the mechanics of playing an instrument, the door was opened for me. Thank you!
Great video, love the constant trivial facts and diagrams to put things into a more digestible context👍
It's called Four on the Floor because the kick happens on each quarter note of the bar.
great presentation, really simple yet effective!
Just ran into several of your videos. Awesome job on all. Learning like crazy from you. Thanks for sharing, much appreciated!
Really well presented thank you. I really need to go back to basics and study.
Incredibly inspiring, I can see the patterns much better with a circular design
the best rhythm lecture i've seen ever. thanks a lot.
The radial visualization scheme is GENIUS!
The drum machine step-sequencer view is more familiar to me, but composing loops with the radial view would be way more intuitive.
Eric Seastrand apps.musedlab.org/groovepizza/
Check out Patterning if you have an iPad. Uses the Radial style for programming. It really is a genius layout.
@@AlexRuthmann That’s cool :) Haven’t tried anything like that on my iPad browser before.. It’s kind of like a very limited version of patterning app, but still fun.
7/10, no amen break
bootie- I was thinking the same
probably because Amen Break is like 4 bars long IIRC and is chopped up and re-arranged quite often so isn't strictly known for a specific one bar section of the break that could be represented on one circle on here. It'd take them 4 circles, lol.
its in the google doc
@@Dubbsteppa21 the apache one is in it too :)
try reading the google doc
Very clear and useful. Muchas gracias
thank you very much for the video and for the spreadsheet.
This is a fantastic intro to basic beats.
This video is very very useful for beginners in music production to understand rhythm and drum programming. Thank you for this 💝
To visualize further, the softer hits should have been shown with a lighter colour to indicate that it's played softer/at a lower volume. The beat at 5:50 is missing a few kick markers... :P
Well presented video. I took a download of the speadsheet thanks.
This is so cool much easier to understand with both diagrams.
Man, this is pure gold for me! Thanks so much!!🙏❤️👍
You sir are the real MVP, this would have been great at the beginning of music journey but I guess things happen for a reason!
If anyone likes this circle based design, the videos from the channel Drumset Fundamentals are helpful for me with having the diagram paired with image and then a visual that circles around the diagram in time with the music to indicate which beat is being played with the music and diagram together.
Excellent tutorial, nice and simple and clearly showing how beats work. Loved the circular notation too.
Hip hop geek shoes true colors at 4:30 💪🏼
shoes
*Shows
I can't see his feet :/
Just got my first drum machine and this is just amazing!
at min 5.54 I can hear a kick playing with the open hh but it isn't written on the circle
thank you
Yep, I heard that third one as well
there must be a kick on second 2
Yes the Mardi Gras beat is very obviously missing a hi-hat denoted in the circle
5:54 and thank you
Good concept of graphing drum beats Thank You!
There’s a brilliant iOS drum app called Patterning that uses the exact circular graph as this here. Well worth checking out as one can alter the number of beats per bar, per instrument for some very interesting polyrhythms.
chitlun can’t find it
Can you tell me an android app for that?
Siddharth Pareek I’m not sure there’s anything like Patterning on Android.
@@chitlun okay.. well the link in the description is not working either
Siddharth Pareek The link is likely to be only for the UK.
Where did you go bro? This is great content. I love how you broke it down!
Awesome. Thanks so much for the presentation and all the notation!
Thanks for including the beat templates. Great stuff.
Thank you for sharing this video and the spread I greatly appreciate it I also learned a lot cheers!!
Thanks a lot ☺️😀.. excellent explained... very helpful.. 🙏
Great video! Thanks for sharing the awesome spreadsheet!
The last rythm is called Ijesha,, it is a traditional one from candomble rituals, the instrument is called agogo.
Your circular beat notation lends itself well to Casio's XW-PD1.
10:00 we can hear the symmetry within the rhythm. perfectly put
Amazing video, amazing tacher, thanks for the spreadsheet!
Good video! I need to build a circle step midi controller like that. :D
Excellent video, thanks so much
Muchas Graciass!!!!!!! Perfect videos for music's producers!!!!!Graciassss :D
The "basic rock" beat at 2:17 (3:06 for the audio) is in fact the "motorik" beat from krautrock music (Neu!, Can, Kraftwerk, etc.) and it was a seminal inspiration to a lot of indie rock bands like Stereolab or Yo La Tengo.
really great resources, thank you so much!
Explained so well. Bravo. Thanks for the sheet too.
I would love to see 777-9311 in this form! So dope!
A recent midi DAW trick I tried, was to split off the 2nd half, of the last of 4 equal bars, then shift that one step forward (or back) and reformat it all, so that everything shifts to the off-beat for just that fraction, then back to the regular beat for 3.5 bars.
Hi icarusi, I do not get my head around it, but this sounds very interessting! Do you have any example or further explanation (maybe a midi file) please? Thanks in advance!!