10th Studio Lesson 10-12-17 - Posted on 2017-10-19 by Bill Sloyer

During our 10th lesson on Thursday, 10/12, Larry and I talked about:

4/4 means four ¼ notes per measure

Syncopation – Shifts the note before or behind the beat.  This plays with our expectation of where the beat should be.  It can loosen up the rhythm and give something “life.”  Most Funk music.

Upbeat – Unaccented beat

“Pocket” (aka “grease”) – the sound is on the click but there’s a little slip/slide either before or after the groove

Quantization – ProTools fix your timing, but there’s also ability to swing off timing

In the mid-70’s, bands started playing to a click.  Beatles / Zepplin / Stones – no click, just drummers.

Yuri Digital Click is good app

SMPTE & MIDI timecode – all instruments can be in time

Common Tempos:

Pop:  120 - 140

Hip Hop:  80-90

Country:  65 - 85

On the PIANO, an OCTAVE is 8 steps – “CDEFGABC”.

Black Keys aka “sharps/flat” – half step

White Keys – whole step

Major Scale – 8 notes

C Major – all white keys

There are 12 tones in Western music including all sharps

Microtones – intervals (smaller than a semitone) not found in the customary Western tuning of twelve equal intervals per octave

AXIS OF AWESOME – on Youtube, demonstration of how a lot of songs are just 4 CHORDS