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There's the whole concept of "ahead" or "behind", although as a keyboardist it's never been clear to me which to go for. Sometimes a tension is counseled, like
by tunesmith 4y ago
There's the whole concept of "ahead" or "behind", although as a keyboardist it's never been clear to me which to go for. Sometimes a tension is counseled, like bass being ahead of the beat and soloist being behind. Or it can be tempo-specific. Curious if you can share more along those lines from a bass perspective?
- agumonkey 4y agoi'm an amateur drummer, i never fully grasped ahead / behind formally, all I know is that when I practice patterns, there are times where a mishap causing a slight delay will confuse my brain into feeling an acceleration (like sense of time being borked for a second).. I wonder if they play around that sensation.
- DontchaKnowit 4y agoList to some drummers that play with the J Dilla style of beats. For example JD beck. Basically you just play certain beats ahead or behind the beat but do it consistently and it sounds "right" but wonky in a very cool way. It's hard as shit to do for me I have trouble enough playing on time lmao
- agumonkey 4y agoEven questlove said it Was alienating at first (D'Angelo voodoo sessions). But beyond the nusoul / nujazz world. I can also sense this in Copeland drumming. But in a nearly invisible feel. And recently I stumbled upon Taylor McFerrin+ thundercat collab. Their drummer was having fun laying crazy shifted patterns, but not on the bottom level. It was different.
- atoav 4y agoI am a bassist and do wonky times a lot, I can still recall the feeling you describe — but nowadays I only get it when I have to play really wonky stuff that goes against the tempo of the rest of the band. So I would say this feeling goes away with practise. The less you have to think about the timing the less weird it feels when you stretch it.