on 8/19/02 4:46 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> Solid tune - lets just hear the finished 5+ miniute tune though :] > > Oh the eternal stuggle. See if I knew that this music would get played for a > crowd of deep enthusiastic moving bodies I might finish it..... I would play it - but it isnt finished. You cant expect to get mass acceptance over night (or even in a reasonable number years in most cases) if you dont finish anything. No one will _be able_ to help you by giving your tunes exposure if they are whole and "playable" by some semblance of conventional DnB arrangements. > what would you say is necessary to go from where the track is now to a Obvious things - the usual arrangements of introduction, body, bridge, refrain/exit - or take it any way you want. A song _can_ be 2 minutes and it does not invalidate it as unworthy of being played. However making it so breif (any song under 4.5 minutes) limits most DJ's ability to fluidly mix and blend as there is such a limited window of opportunity. No one says you have to conform to conventional arrangement ideas but the reality is that this music's demographic are those people who buy the tunes to spin them in their sets. Not many poeple want to listen to non vocal tunes that are targetted for DJs to spin. Most every DJ won't purchase or listen to a DnB CD that is strictly compiled instead of being mixed. On the other hand not many DJs can or would spin tunes that are the typical big music industry standard vocal led tunes that are not much longer than 3 minutes. >> Essentially though - you have the beginnings of 2 solid tunes that are very >> similar but not the same... Write one with the forced 2 step pattern and >> write a second with the same kit using a normal 2 step pattern. >> >> I'm constantly having to tell myself - save that idea >> (that comes into a song that changes the direction of what I started with) >> for the NEXT song. > > What about creating two different moods and then having the song consist of > the challenging (easy?) morph from one to the other? Not "pure" enough for the > dj's? To me it doesnt really have anything to do with purity - more so - if you write two seperate songs with articluate enough windows of opportunity then the DJ can make the same transition that you would write in either of the two seperate songs. With that said though - of course there's nothing wrong with creating a song consisting of multiple patterns to alter a mood or expression within the same song... Or you could take a step a further and combine the two patterns within the same drum programming stanzas - essentially creating a mash up. Mike ---> MK2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.madbass.com --- Drum&Bass Arena Producers Discussion List http://www.breakbeat.co.uk You are currently subscribed to dnb-prod as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
