tempos

Favorite tempos/feels this week

1. 88 bpm. Perfect mid tempo. Swing at like 51,52. Mmmmmm, tasty.
2. 93 bpm. Swing 62 or 63%. The classic. If you can't make a head nodding beat at 93 then you should throw your mpc out the window.
3. 95 bpm. I used to be all about 96, until I discovered 95. Use 95, your beats will sneak up on people. It's like for the first minute they're brains need to adapt, then by minute two they're like, yeah. Course you need skills to execute this technique effectively. The dalai llama likes this tempo.
4. 83 bpm. Ah, what can I say about 83 bpm. It's a good tempo to use when it's raining. When it's sunny I gotta stick with 88 and above.

i can't believe I just used they're instead of their....

the two 'classic' logic swing settings tranlsate as thus:

16b swing- 56%
16c swing- 60%

as used by loads of underground house producers,

greg

what's the purpose guy's? the tempo depends of the song,no?

yup agreed.....for jontakiffs post anyhoo..i just thought i'd tack on that bit of info i recently found out onto the end....and the tempo matters not in that....yup i should have started a new post...

greg

oh and mpcvore- rereading jonta's post i reckon he's having a laugh.....damn cryptic business this email malarky...

greg

sorry guys, I wrote that real late last night in a goofy mood. I need more sleep

what do you mean when you say swing

i think he means those rides in the park which are seats attached to chains and which sway from side to side....

greg

Out of interest...R u swinging the whole drum pattern or just individual parts, ie: hats?

you can do it either way to alter the feel a little bit.

jontakiff wrote:Favorite tempos/feels this week

1. 88 bpm. Perfect mid tempo. Swing at like 51,52. Mmmmmm, tasty.
2. 93 bpm. Swing 62 or 63%. The classic. If you can't make a head nodding beat at 93 then you should throw your mpc out the window.
3. 95 bpm. I used to be all about 96, until I discovered 95. Use 95, your beats will sneak up on people. It's like for the first minute they're brains need to adapt, then by minute two they're like, yeah. Course you need skills to execute this technique effectively. The dalai llama likes this tempo.
4. 83 bpm. Ah, what can I say about 83 bpm. It's a good tempo to use when it's raining. When it's sunny I gotta stick with 88 and above.

Where do you put your notes???

since I rarely use those tempo's I tried it out.

88 was OK, a bit slow and the swing at that tempo feels very robotic.

93 good bpm, combines well with the swing, but still, swing is better at higher tempos.

95 I can't **** wit, I had to go to 98, too slo for me bro,

83 was fun, made a rainy day beat even tho it aint rainin.

I tend to use quantize sparingly, unquantized lets me get to my point quicker except when I need that precision and know what I'm after.

118.5 always keeps me happy

Oh yes, dubmunkey, thanks for the info on Logic swing settings. My swing setting for skippy house hats on the MPC is 57% & I never knew why I couldn't quite get them to sound the same in Logic.

Aurelius wrote:Out of interest...R u swinging the whole drum pattern or just individual parts, ie: hats?

im curious about this too, i usually apply different swing settings on all the different parts of my drumtrack.