Beat Detective Narrative

The song opens with a heavily gated bass line, this was done live many times before the recording, but it was the new gating technology that was mentioned earlier that allowed them to get the tick tock

The birth of hip-hop is credited to the DJ, or actually three DJs: Kool Herc, Afrika Bambaataa, and Grandmaster Flash. Turntables were being used in the discotheques, but with the advent of the mixer DJs were able to mix two records together to keep the beat going. These hip-hop pioneers did much more than just remove the lull from the dance floor. They began sampling, which clearly enough, is sampling other records to create a new beat. Loops were used from the drum breaks of past records and DJs began the popular tradition of scouring record stores for rare or unheard of music from across the globe, hoping to make "the perfect beat." Grandmaster Flash is credited with having invented the technique of scratching records, which is done by reversing or pressing forward the

The director and creative team shot abstract video and used audio replication to manipulate the sensations audiences experience when viewing this film. It is hard to know if the characters are experiencing diagetic sound, or if the audio is removed from their

(12) The drum gives off a pulse and tempo to what the music will portray.

"What I figured out, and it blew me away that I would take an audio file and just drag it into my top track, just drag the whole record and how I said the pieces that I wanted, I would figure out the pieces that I wanted, I would highlight them and I would put a second track and I would use the top track as my holding track, take my second track and just drag the pieces down and warp them how I want it, that way I can just arrange it how I want it but what I did is I loaded up the sampler and just started swiping pieces that I want and just pulled it on top of the sampler and I didn't realise that you could do that so I just pulled the piece on top and then I would set my key group the way I want it and I would pull in another piece and set my key group, so it was almost like me chopping up my sampler but I'm looking at what I want and I basically made a whole sampler and laid it out off all the samples that I want so not only could I warp it but then I can chop it up and re-arrange all of the pieces with the

There are several methods involved in the process of creating beats but probably the most recognizable is that of layering sounds and samples. Knowing how to take different pieces of music and samples and joining them together to get different melodies, effects, and rhythms within the beat structure is vital for creating rap music beats of professional quality.

<br>Like many other producers, Vig used studio technology as an add-on to the instruments, and this affected the ways in which the songs were written and laid down. ‘ The way that we work is that someone will bring in a loop or a sample, and we might jam for a couple of hours, find one bar that 's kind of cool, load it into our samplers, jam on top of that....and then we 'll take that home, come back, jam on it some more, record some more things, add and subtract... '.(Butch Vig, from R. Buskin: Butch Vig. Talking Garbage. [online] available from: <a href="http://sospubs.co.uk/sos/199/_articles/mar9//butchvig.html">http://sospubs.co.uk/sos/199/_articles/mar9//butchvig.html</a>. [accessed 29/05/01]).

Although sampling can be found in numerous genres of music, it was ultimately the use of sampling in hip-hop music that “catapulted sampling into mainstream popular culture.” Modern day sampling started in the 1960’s when Jamaican disc jockeys (DJs) began to combine samples of already created sound recordings to produce numerous original rhythms and arrangements using phonograph turntables. Fast-forward to the late 1970’s, Jamaican born Dee- Jay Kool Herc brought his sample techniques to the South Bronx, New York. It was there that Dee-Jay Kool Herc began to create “breaks,” in which he took two copies of the same vinyl record and alternated between the two of them in order to create isolated rhythmic instrumental pieces of a song. Thereafter,

Love Me Do and Can't Buy Me Love sounded like a simple recording, while the other two songs sounded more produced, the last song Tomorrow Never Knows sounded the most produced. I could hear the drums in all the songs,

Rap is extremely unique because it incorporates a variety of musical strategies and techniques into one song. Rap instrumentals, or “beats”, are often made by producers on computer software. With this software, producers have an endless supply of pre-recorded samples and sounds at their fingertips, and they also have the ability to create brand new samples using

In this essay I am going to look at one of the producers who has influenced my work and has a significant impact on the UK Bass music scene with a successful career spanning over 20 years in multiple genres and that is Ben Pettit AKA DJ Zinc. From when I first heard Super Sharp Shooters in 1995 which came out on DJ Hypes Ganja Records and his Dope Skillz alias for Six Million Ways I was amazed as those tracks seemed to take the jump up sound of DnB and Jungle to a higher level. At a time when jungle was thriving, these tracks were not pure Jungle in my opinion due to the fact they heavily sampled Hip Hop and funk tracks, with Super Sharp Shooter sampling Fred Wesley, Method Man, LL Cool Jay, James brown, Tommy Roe and The Winston’s classic Amen Brother. Naturally by using those types of rare groove and Hip Hop samples they had more of a Hip Hop feel to them as opposed to the true raga jungle feel, which was more reggae,

A place where this trick is especially useful is in checking the phase of drums. Since most of us use multiple microphones when recording drum kits, it’s common for drum mics to be out of phase. I typically check this by making sure that the overhead drum mics are in phase with one another. Then I’ll bounce them to a bus and compare that bus to each of the other drums individually. Typically, when I A/B them, the combination with the fullest bass sound is the recipe that’s closest to being in

Then you can manipulate in many ways to create new sounds. For example as shown in 5m 38s, this create a whole new varieties of songs like “Nutta” Uk apache and Shy- fx and “New Style” L Double and Younghead. It’s very interesting to me how one piece of music can have such a ripple effect that can create new varieties of music like Jungle. Even though the Amen Break has changed, I think you can still recognized the sample, because you can still hear the same instruments in the new music that you hear in the original as heard in 5m 27s. The sample in 5m 27 sounds more chopped or separated which makes it sound slower but also adds more changes. Similarly, in 5m 38s the sound is unique, but still holds some of the instruments and musical elements. I think the Amen Beat was such an inspirational sample because it led to the creation of new

Listening to the song, it feels like the rhythm should be pretty straightforward, but Blake catches the ear of the listener with all of these unusual beats. Blake’s voice is very different from other artist’s voices that I have heard. He has

Applying Sonnox Inflator to improve character and overall volume of the mix as well as use Brainworx Hybrid v2 to mono frequencies below 150Hz and to add a little width to the stereo field.