By bliprock
Sun Jun 10, 2012 5:44 pm
Listening today to a lot of modern styles of music you will no doubt hear a good progressive break. be it chill dubstep or mad jungle, the break reigns supreme. So whats it all about?
I want to make a thread dedicated to the art of the progressive break. This is above genre really and is for the body(dancing) and mind
Its been nearly 20 years to 30 years of sampling old drum breaks and bending them to our will. From this technique, which i am sure most of you are familiar with, that has lead to new styles of music that are far removed from the original, sometimes recognizable, sometimes not.
Ok where do we start. lets take it that you already spotted a break and have it ready. now sure its a great loop and goes great with that other beat you did, but something aint right. Yep, you have not chopped it yet. There more you listen to breaks the more you will hear chops of breaks being rearranged. Now the progressive part.
There are ground rules, that are a given, like try and keep it in tempo, key ect. but as a rule there are no rules. Its a balance between repetition and change.
For beats that are for dancing then you want that beat to be tight. So start by looping a small bit and make a beat that is good and drop the break over the top. If its chopped then of course the sequencer will just be playing pad 1 through to 8 or 16 of your chopped break. Sound good? if not go back and start again. Get this bit right and every thing else works.
So now your rocking that break right but it sounds a bit borring. Well this is when you have to really get in to the programming. The usual quick method is to make break and copy said break and make change every copy. So 2 bars into 4 bars then do same again to make 8, 16, or 32 bars. 32 bars progressions are a pain to program but worth it. There is computer programs to do it, but I program them out my self above method, then take this and rework again. Then, go all out of course and then resample your break and cut again. Knowing when to stop is important to.
I use call and response, and also live playing to can help you bang out a break thats different. There is the consideration of how you arrange the break to, is it a banger or is it chill? this will lend certain elements to the dynamics of your break progression to.
But generally I find that if you lay the groundwork first then you will be making great progressive break beats for what ever genre.
Personally I try to do variations on a copied sequence so that i can switch between the two and hear how the break progresses. If it progresses, sometimes i can get lost with a million variations. So this is when i go back and listen to my start beat. Add some rolls and a drop for the bass - sorted
I want to make a thread dedicated to the art of the progressive break. This is above genre really and is for the body(dancing) and mind
Its been nearly 20 years to 30 years of sampling old drum breaks and bending them to our will. From this technique, which i am sure most of you are familiar with, that has lead to new styles of music that are far removed from the original, sometimes recognizable, sometimes not.
Ok where do we start. lets take it that you already spotted a break and have it ready. now sure its a great loop and goes great with that other beat you did, but something aint right. Yep, you have not chopped it yet. There more you listen to breaks the more you will hear chops of breaks being rearranged. Now the progressive part.
There are ground rules, that are a given, like try and keep it in tempo, key ect. but as a rule there are no rules. Its a balance between repetition and change.
For beats that are for dancing then you want that beat to be tight. So start by looping a small bit and make a beat that is good and drop the break over the top. If its chopped then of course the sequencer will just be playing pad 1 through to 8 or 16 of your chopped break. Sound good? if not go back and start again. Get this bit right and every thing else works.
So now your rocking that break right but it sounds a bit borring. Well this is when you have to really get in to the programming. The usual quick method is to make break and copy said break and make change every copy. So 2 bars into 4 bars then do same again to make 8, 16, or 32 bars. 32 bars progressions are a pain to program but worth it. There is computer programs to do it, but I program them out my self above method, then take this and rework again. Then, go all out of course and then resample your break and cut again. Knowing when to stop is important to.
I use call and response, and also live playing to can help you bang out a break thats different. There is the consideration of how you arrange the break to, is it a banger or is it chill? this will lend certain elements to the dynamics of your break progression to.
But generally I find that if you lay the groundwork first then you will be making great progressive break beats for what ever genre.
Personally I try to do variations on a copied sequence so that i can switch between the two and hear how the break progresses. If it progresses, sometimes i can get lost with a million variations. So this is when i go back and listen to my start beat. Add some rolls and a drop for the bass - sorted
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