stats and techniques the big names in production use

I want to know if anyone knows of the time signatures or anything related to western music theory etc that the big name producers use. For eg: I've read somewhere that timbaland uses syncopated rhythm patterns for his. Syncopated meaning notes occuring on the downbeat of a pattern. Simply put notes b/w each actual beat in a measure.
Thanks

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syncopation

In music, syncopation is the stressing of a normally unstressed beat in a bar or the failure to sound a tone on an accented beat. For example, in 4/4 time, the first and third beats are normally stressed. If, instead, the second and fourth beats are stressed and the first and third unstressed, the rhythm is syncopated. Also, if the musician suddenly does not play anything on beat 1, that would also be syncopation.

The stress can also shift by less than a whole beat so it falls on an off-beat, as in the following example where the stress in the first bar is shifted by a quaver (or eighth-note):

Playing a note ever-so-slightly before or after a beat is another form of syncopation because this produces an unexpected accent.


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There are actually a few beats on the forums that have some syncopated rhythms whether they are intentional or not, they are there.

For syncopated beats just check out 'Broken Beat' music.....artists like, 4 Hero etc

It's got it's name for that very reason!

CHEEZE
SUSHI

so THAT'S what i do.

^^^

I know, huh? Kinda makes me feel less clever...

Syncopation is everywhere you look in modern music or anything funky.

Even the most bland rock beat has syncopation:

you know:
kick - SNARE - kick kick - SNARE
1 2 3 4


Or like old boogie-woogie shuffle type stuff. Chuck berry, whatever, its all syncopated.

Syncopation is the essence of 'the funk'...
I will go out on a limb and say I believe it was probably black musical culture in the states that popularized it.

Syncopation almost won't make sense until you picture classical music and music before the 20th century, marches or polkas or classical music where the main pulse really is on the '1' or on the '1 and 3'.

My jazz band teacher used to get us to clap and then complain that it was wrong if we clapped on 1 and 3, instead of the more 'funky' 2 and 4.

"Syncopation... I will go out on a limb and say I believe it was probably black musical culture in the states that popularized it."

You don't have to go out on the limb my Brutha.
African music transformed in the Americas.

Peace.

yup. afrodiaspora. it is why rhythm cropped up in latin america, cuba, puerto rico.

by the way--about that. thanks.

All of us use syncopation in our music. A back beat (accent on 2 and 4) is a form of syncopation.

"All of us use syncopation in our music."

I don't disagree Spectre.
I'm just giving praise to source of the funk of which we all love and enjoy working with.

Peace.

homershines wrote:"All of us use syncopation in our music."

I don't disagree Spectre.
I'm just giving praise to source of the funk of which we all love and enjoy working with.

Peace.

It wasn't directed at you. It was directed at the person who made the original post. He said he heard Timbaland uses syncopation. I was just saying anyone putting the snare on the 2 and 4 is syncopation.

Peace to you Spectre.

you want syncopation?


try US Drags by Missing Persons (terry bozzio on the drums).