how many bars

[BourbanBoi]

how many bars do you all make your basslines and melodies before you loop it in your beats,just wondering i'm using fruity loops...............holla@me

 

[fade502]

I don't think it matters... something I try to do though is if my drums repeat after 2 bars... I might make my bassline run 4 bars and my atmoshpere run 8 and something else repeat at 16. That way, you usually walk for 16 bars without the whole thing ever repeating itself. Keeps it fresh. Just don't make everything flip at 2, or 4 or 8 bars... that is the sign of lazyness, or an amature skill set.

 

[Bosta]

I don't think it matters... something I try to do though is if my drums repeat after 2 bars... I might make my bassline run 4 bars and my atmoshpere run 8 and something else repeat at 16. That way, you usually walk for 16 bars without the whole thing ever repeating itself. Keeps it fresh. Just don't make everything flip at 2, or 4 or 8 bars... that is the sign of lazyness, or an amature skill set.

thats a creative way to keep ur beat from being so repetitive......lemme hear some of ya stuff

 

[mercurywaters]

Just don't make everything flip at 2, or 4 or 8 bars... that is the sign of lazyness, or an amature skill set.

uh oh. those are fighting words around these parts....

 

[Sacred One]

yea I do the same, but I make my drums like 16 bars
melody 8 or 4 bars
bassline 8 or 16

but don't be lazy like he said

 

[The Bastard]

I don't think it matters... something I try to do though is if my drums repeat after 2 bars... I might make my bassline run 4 bars and my atmoshpere run 8 and something else repeat at 16. That way, you usually walk for 16 bars without the whole thing ever repeating itself. Keeps it fresh. Just don't make everything flip at 2, or 4 or 8 bars... that is the sign of lazyness, or an amature skill set.

call up dj premiere and tell him hes lazy then...

 

[Shonsteez]

LOL....Bwuahhhahahahahaa

 

[DanielMunich]

Question: from where do you get the exact bpmvalue of acapellas , for example from Nas or Jay_Z??

do you take 4 bars of the wave and let a sequenzer program check out how is the value ???

Thanx

 

[Dave]

For a list of bpms try http://www.djrhythms.com/db/ or work it out yourself with a tap tempo program like analogx tap tempo http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/audio/taptempo.htm .

By the way when working out bpms your best off using the original track with the beat cos its easier to count the beats then