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| quote: | Originally posted by Rebel Brown
You've been listening to the wrong people.
This is about 170 BPM. |
nah.. i don't think thats 170 bpm either, its getting up there probably around 145-150ish. you guys are paying attention to the wrong part of the beat.
the way music works, its all about phrasing, and the time signature its written in. no matter how fast the beat sounds like its hitting, even with all the crazy percussion that drum and bass has, or the dirty south hip hop beats with that fast percussion, you have to listen to when the beginning of the music phrase occurs and the end. split that into measures and then determine when the downbeat is. no matter how crazy the beat sounds, hiphop and edm is almost always written in 4/4 time. so kinda like breakbeats, where the kick usually comes in on every other beat and doesn't hit on every down beat, same with hip hop/drum and bass. of course i understand people throw in extra kick hits to spice up the music, but the main bpm determining kicks come on the first and third hit of the 4/4 measure.
i dont know if i was clear in my explanation, but next time try feeling the beat through the beginning and ends of phrases instead of where you actually hear a beat being hit. then you will realize the beat is much slower than what you originally perceived.
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