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Re:Rhythm for beginners by dustingetz on Sunday April 03, 2011 @10:15PM (#2405015)
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!

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Re:Rhythm for beginners by dfrankow on Sunday April 03, 2011 @11:42PM (#2405261)
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.

Re:Rhythm for beginners by armandososa on Monday April 04, 2011 @01:56AM (#2405573)
So your point is that his "Rythm for beginners" article is not advanced enough?
Re:Rhythm for beginners by Flankk on Sunday April 03, 2011 @10:44PM (#2405094)
It sounded pretty bad to me. If he only mashed notes in one key it would have sounded much better.
Re:Rhythm for beginners by alanfalcon on Sunday April 03, 2011 @11:08PM (#2405161)
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.