my very OWN personal MONSTER mpc 1000 thread..

wattup yall ain't been on here in a mad minute... obviously NOT havin a computer wit internet access at the crib play a big part but uh.. yeah..

1. aight ova reason is this i went for it, I went out and signed up for some d*m piano classes the community center in my area was offering... sh*t is wilde n craze I mean I'm the only dude there and ha, ha buncha older white ladies n sh*t...picture me coming in rockin the ill gear headphone's rockin braids the whole 9 yardz.. these ladies got children my age n ish.....yo it took them 12 weeks n NOW they finally talkin to me.. the sh*T iz iLL tho learnin a lot i come to yall cuz i get a feel for u dudes that come on this forum u know the sparq'z lamps and n all that.... for OUR final class coming up in 3 weeks we have to do a recital. that means we gotta play song for the class n i want to hit em all off wit a hip hop joint... i tried the interent but i can't find nothing so i was wondering if yall can help me locate a hip hop song broken down in written music so i can play that? feel me? aight yallz my last hope.. so hope we can do this.. ova wise i'ma have to do saints come marchin in and lookin for roll roll your boat..


2. yo how the hizzy EXACTLy do the tap temp work on the mpc? i mean i read the manual u know the whole TWO sentence it got on it it jus say tap it..i figured out to change it to 4 taps? but say i got a loop that is 4 bars. at what rate do i tap it? yall feel me? cuz u know i'm sayin i tried tappin it out and came out wit like 106 i had this dude try it and he a drummer at that n he came out to like 76.. but the actual tempo of the song is 67.9 so i'm sayin its not as easy as jus tap it since its gonna be different for each person? so can yall school me DUMB man style on how exactly to do it?



aight yall i appreciate yall's time and patience...

be eazy

oNe

I would play a medley of "Clan in da front" (Wu-Tang), "Cream" (Wu-Tang), and then "Ice Cream" (Raekwon). You could also throw some "shimmy Shimmy ya" at the beginning (as an intro).........listen to some old Wu.
Rza was ill with the pianos

I like the fact u had the balls to go and sit at those piano lessons man

I dont know of much hip hop related written piano music but I think if you spent some time on it you might be able to make whatever music you DO find - have a hip hop feel. kinda adding your own style to it.

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hold down tap tempo - press a pad - it will repeat
as you hold it down you will see the different timings you can set it to on the screen from 1/8 to 1/32-3
just play around with it and u will see what I mean
+ hold shift and hit tap temp and it will keep it on without u having to hold it down

hope that was what u were looking for.

tap 4 times per bar, evenly spaced.

so during a 4bar loop u would tap 16 times total.

i think my sister has some book with 2pac sheet music but i think you can find most or all of that on the net. check this out and do a search for others: http://www.2pac2k.de/sheetmusic.html

tap tempo is on the 1st downbeat of every bar.

just like you bob your head, that is your tap tempo, the mpc tempo
will follow along with your taps as it plays.

yeah, thats big balls to go and sit in on the class like that and try to get the
knowledge of piano going, I got respect for that move right there..

big ups to you..

ummm, don't you mean the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th downbeat of the bar? if you tap on just the first downbeat you'd cut your tempo down to a quarter of what it should be.

You tap to the four beats in the bar, the same is the "click" sound you can get going.

TIP: I've found it VERY useful not to actually tap the tap tempo button like you would the pads. Just put your finger on it and click it down - its much more accurate and i'm pretty sure thats how the button was designed to be used.

yep, same as the click/metronome...

nice way to explain it.

Oi u with the gay haircut!!

piano lessons yuh nah!! boi thats u!! gay as fuk!
tap tempo speaks for it self "TAP TEMPO" damn cheef!

lank wrote:ummm, don't you mean the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th downbeat of the bar? if you tap on just the first downbeat you'd cut your tempo down to a quarter of what it should be.

Yeah I was thinking 2 different things at the same time. head bobbin is four times a bar. right. got it.

aight yall good looks wit the info n tips... this piano sh&t jus like production is no joke.... here i thought it'd be an eazy roll, hell nah, me I NOW give mad props and respect to any musician out there.... being as i can now read music its much iLLer now... n yeah u right going to class a young HIP hop MINDED cat at that... n being a man of color... ahhh sh*t waz not eazy i mean...ahh lets jus say the teach BARELY tolerates me.. quick to bust on a n*ggah, ha ha no crackin jokes in that joint...

but uh no luck on the hip hop sheet music finds been scouring the internet but nothing, that pac link was mad good but yall gotz to remember i'm far from playin DOPENESS i'm still at a wack when the saints come marchin in level of playin.. but i'ma still dig... so if any one finds sheet music for dope but simple hip hop let me know..

aight got yall on the tap tempo, thats what i need as the manual don't say all that n it seems more like you use the tap tempo to get the range and then dial it in via tempo to make it loop... cool, good lookin on that..

aight yall being that i got no pc.. and interent accesss at the library is bia.... i ahem acQuired a laptop.. feel me.. but d*m i mean aight basics its runnin win 2000 and stick on it says pen II and it got 64MB on it.. yo is this a keepr or should i scrap it on the streets? i mean to me sh*t is stupid slow.. let me know what yall think..

ayo circuit city got a crazy sale right now kingston mem 256mb $9.95 i'm lookin at ad right here.. it says 256mb PC3200/2700/2100... please tell me that'll work for our mpc 1000? i mean the locked thread on ram on this forum do say pc 133? but i figure as long as it not under 133 it should work right? let me know..


thanks again

i appreciate yall time and knowledge

be eazy

oNe

Find a hiphop song u like that is made entirely from samples of older songs (there are plenty). Find out what song they sampled. Find the sheet music for the original song. Rinse and repeat.

Setting tempo

You can set the tempo in the (Tempo) field of the
MAIN page. You can set the tempo for a sequence between
30.0 and 300.0. You can change the tempo after
you create the sequence. You can also change the tempo
in the sequence by inserting the tempo change event in
the STEP EDIT mode.

• Tap tempo feature

You can set the tempo using the [TAP TEMPO] key
as well as in the (Tempo) field. Tap the [TAP
TEMPO] key to the desired tempo. The MPC1000
will calculate the tempo starting with the timing
that you tap with the [TAP TEMPO] key, and set
the sequence’s tempo to that. The MPC1000 takes
the average interval of 4 taps of the [TAP TEMPO]
key. You can set the number of taps used to calculate
the tempo in the Tap average field in the MISC.
page in OTHER mode...... MPC OS2.1 manual

pretty self explanatory dont ya think?

Maybe Akai should put more pictures in the manual as to keep the interest of the MPC users with little or no attention span...lol

he just wanted to show his haircut