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| donbot24 said 1525 days ago (September 24th, 2005) | |
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Just You Wait... Oh yes, all in good time. If you liked this my first African/Tribal song has some harmonic content, it's called "History Not Geography". Check out my latest song called Field Of Spears
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| The Composer said 1415 days ago (January 12th, 2006) | |
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payback Just returning your request for a comment (you asked on my 17/8 piece... bit slow in reply I know). Fortunately for me, I took a class on African music last year, got to learn a bit of the theory and spent a lot of time playing... so I've got a decent idea of what should be happening here (I am by no means all knowing or anything). Unfortunately this piece is missing one of the greatest parts of african music/drumming. African drumming uses lots of different and individually simple rythms together to make the fantastically complex mix of rhythms that they're famous for. Unfortunately there are no cross-rhythms here... you have just the one rhythmic layer and thats it. To give you a simple idea of a way to do this... here's what I can remember of one of the simpler songs we did in the drum class. First of all, we had a bell pattern in 12/8 (though of course, its not actually thought of like that, but its easier for us to get our heads around it). Keep in mind, almost all african songs have a bell pattern, its the basic backbone of every piece and all parts relate to it. (I'll try and make this look right) Ting - Go - Go Go - Go - Go - Go (repeat) Then we had a shaker pattern that effectively the same as the bell pattern with a down shake on the gaps and an up shake on everything else. Up Down Up Down Up Up Down Up Down Up Down Up (repeat) Then there was a single drum that did this rhythm: - Tak Tak - Tak Tak - Tak Tak - Tak Tak Then there was another set of drums that did a more complex rhythm I can't remember (Sorry)... and finally another set of drums did a simple rhythm in 4/4 (resulting in some triplets when played against everything else) Dom - Tak - Dom Dom Tak - Each rhythm in their own right was quite simple to play and somewhat un-interesting on its own... but together everything was made much richer and complex. Hope you found this interesting/helpful Check out my latest song called 25 Minutes in a Japanese Restaurant (Readers Digest Version) (MJRF)
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| donbot24 said 1397 days ago (January 30th, 2006) | |
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payback Yeah thanks, this was the second African song I did. In my first one ("History Not Geography") I used several cross-rhythms, each as you said was a simple idea alone but together created a solid overall sound. Have a listen I'm sure you'll like it. Check out my latest song called Field Of Spears
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Check out some of my other songs:
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Nice syncopated rhythms. Would love to hear some Harmonic
content on top of it. It's labeled "Demo" so perhaps more will
be added later. Looking forward to the finished Jam...