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Trance Dictionary Project (pg. 3)
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| Eduardo |
| quote: | Originally posted by UWM
An accapella is the vocals alone. |
Yeah you are right sorry |
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| Dan1584 |
Hey can anyone tell me what the drum that snaps is? I mean sometimes you have a song and there is a strong kicking beat and it just has a beat for an intro...then there is a change and there is a drum that's kinda lighter than the original kick...it would go something like this...
BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM...etc < that would be the orginal strong bass kick
Then the song progresses and it goes like:
BOOM BA BOOM BA BOOM BA BOOM BA...etc
And in break beat form it kinda would go like:
BOOM BA BOOM BOOM BOOM BA BOOM BOOM BA BOOM BOOM BOOM BA...etc
This other drum I'm taking about is the sound that you would "pop" to when "poppin' n' lockin"...lol...that sounds so dumb.
Anyway...is there a name for this drum sound?????? |
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| eRRaTiK |
^^ mate i just gotta laugh at that.
top thread btw. really helpful for would-be amateur producers and reviewers too. |
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| Dan1584 |
| :D I know I'm laughing at myself. But honestly I couldn't think of any way to make it clearer than doing that... |
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| SYSTEM-J |
| quote: | Originally posted by Dan1584
:D I know I'm laughing at myself. But honestly I couldn't think of any way to make it clearer than doing that... |
I just usually call it the clap. |
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| Syeker |
| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
I just usually call it the clap. |
Or it can be a reverbed snare. |
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| Jeskot7 |
| Alot of percussion in trance huh? |
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| jinxed84 |
Tiesto - a flower pot
:D hopefully someone knows what im talking about. |
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| Eduardo |
| acid - ? (not the drug) Is it a synth lead made by a TB Roland 303? |
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| Radagast |
Trance: (Written by Ishkur)
Trance is a form of music best characterized by quarter note drum patterns, and 16th/32nd note rhythm synthesizer patterns. It has a meter of 4/4 always, with a quarter note bassdrum acting as metronome, and quarter note high-hat hits offset. This unwavering drum mechanism may be constantly tweaked with for effect, with the attack, decay, resonance, frequency, tone, delay, reverb all given liberal treatment. The tempo is generally around 130-150 bpm.
The rhythm section consists mostly of a repeating 1-4-5 (A-D-E) 32nd note sequencing arpeggio, and a bass section of minor whole notes usually drifting through the aeolian scale (though not always). Additional rhythm sections are added and subtracted every 16 measures (sometimes 8, and sometimes 32) to add weight and anticipation to the composition. The bass chord will usually change every 4 measures. A typical trance song has 2-4 bass chords, tops.
There is a lead synth, and it will be a simple minor scale melody of 8th notes, looping every 4 measures (some have 2, some have 8. Some even have 16).
Trance is produced with computerized synthesizers, drum machines, and music sequencer software (sometimes MIDI, sometimes not). The average trance song has a polyphony of 8. The most busy will have 16.
This is what trance is.
This is what Airwave isn't.
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Whoever explains what this all means and gets a cookie... |
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| flavdave |
| quote: | Originally posted by Radagast
Whoever explains what this all means and gets a cookie... |
All of that means that trance has become very formulaic and many songs follow a similar pattern like the way pop/rock songs fit the verse/chorus/verse/chorus/bridge/chorus pattern. |
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| Radagast |
Just to clear things up, that is a description of pre-epic/anthem trance that Ishkur wrote once...
As for an explanation I was thinking more along the lines of a contextual definition of all music related terms in the piece.
Good luck to me eh? :( |
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