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this blew my mind! dude mashes (piano) keyboard, plays it back, sounds as you would expect -- awful. then dude uses software to snap all notes to the nearest si

this blew my mind! dude mashes (piano) keyboard, plays it back, sounds as you would expect -- awful. then dude uses software to snap all notes to the nearest sisteenth and adds a boring base line. sounds awesome! search for heading "An Experiment"

Flankk 16y ago
It sounded pretty bad to me. If he only mashed notes in one key it would have sounded much better.
- alanfalcon 16y ago
  It sounds exponentially less awful than before they were snapped. I particularly like when he adds a "1/16 Swing Heavy" rhythm to the notes. I do agree that it would actually sound like music if he played all the notes in the same key, which you can do by following the lessons from part 1 of the same series.
dfrankow 16y ago
You picked out the best part of the article: the clips are fun. I also liked the quantized version of random notes on a keyboard. However, as a musician, this sort of article makes me uncomfortable. He says: "In this post, we will be discussing rhythm basics and all things related." Not exactly. He discusses rhythm basics from a certain cultural background, roughly western European mainstream music of the present day. His discussion focuses one particular notation (whole notes, etc.), one particular tool (a sequencer), and most of all one particular musical language (mostly 4/4 with a backbeat, and typical mainstream instruments, electronic keyboard and drum kit: kick, snare, hi-hat). Music is not limited to that which can be quantized. His discussion of swing is primitive. He probably doesn't play jazz, though I can't say for sure. I don't mind that he approaches from a certain place. It just makes me uncomfortable that he omits his background to the point where a beginner might mistakenly think the post is somehow universal.
- armandososa 16y ago
  So your point is that his "Rythm for beginners" article is not advanced enough?

Flankk 16y ago

It sounded pretty bad to me. If he only mashed notes in one key it would have sounded much better.

alanfalcon 16y ago
It sounds exponentially less awful than before they were snapped. I particularly like when he adds a "1/16 Swing Heavy" rhythm to the notes. I do agree that it would actually sound like music if he played all the notes in the same key, which you can do by following the lessons from part 1 of the same series.

dfrankow 16y ago

You picked out the best part of the article: the clips are fun. I also liked the quantized version of random notes on a keyboard. However, as a musician, this sort of article makes me uncomfortable. He says: "In this post, we will be discussing rhythm basics and all things related." Not exactly. He discusses rhythm basics from a certain cultural background, roughly western European mainstream music of the present day. His discussion focuses one particular notation (whole notes, etc.), one particular tool (a sequencer), and most of all one particular musical language (mostly 4/4 with a backbeat, and typical mainstream instruments, electronic keyboard and drum kit: kick, snare, hi-hat). Music is not limited to that which can be quantized. His discussion of swing is primitive. He probably doesn't play jazz, though I can't say for sure. I don't mind that he approaches from a certain place. It just makes me uncomfortable that he omits his background to the point where a beginner might mistakenly think the post is somehow universal.

armandososa 16y ago
So your point is that his "Rythm for beginners" article is not advanced enough?