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Subject: newbie needs 2-step beat help
Original Message 1/19 14-Jan-05 @ 04:51 AM - newbie needs 2-step beat help
I've reviewed the posts here and some of the files but I'm still looking for info to get me started. I just want to start with the basic 2-step (boom cha boom-cha) beat but I cannot figure it out.
Many of the beats here which say "2-step" have snares on 2&4 but I think a basic 2-step has one or more snares in different places. But I am just getting into this some maybe I am missing something...
Any advice appreciated.
Thanks!
Message 2/19 14-Jan-05 @ 10:50 AM - RE: newbie needs 2-step beat help
believe it or not, its a page showing newbies how to program various 2step beats
Message 3/19 14-Jan-05 @ 12:28 PM - RE: newbie needs 2-step beat help
Thanks milan btw...
I did review that site before posting but those beats are primarily backbeats though the grime beat has claps on the threes so I guess it is what you'd call half-time. If there is such a thing as THE traditional 2-step, I am still looking.
Thanks again
Message 4/19 15-Jan-05 @ 06:29 AM - RE: newbie needs 2-step beat help
But from what I think I know about it, it's fast innit. That would be called double time.
The basic backbeat with a snare on 2 and 4 is normal time. A backbeat with a snare on every 3 would be halftime. Doubletime would put the snare on the "ands". See the diagram.
(at least, these are the terms I use with studio drummers with relatively universal agreement)
So wouldn't a doubltimed basic backbeat give you a basic two-step beat?
Message 6/19 15-Jan-05 @ 06:31 AM - RE: newbie needs 2-step beat help
Message 7/19 15-Jan-05 @ 06:45 AM - RE: newbie needs 2-step beat help
Message 9/19 15-Jan-05 @ 06:58 AM - RE: newbie needs 2-step beat help
Thanks but the beat(s) have a disjointed feel - not simply double time I believe. The snares seem to be displaced in some manner and of course they are sped up a lot. I'm thinking Hardstep stuff like Dred Bass "Technology"
In any case I'd like to start with confirmation of THE traditional two step pattern [if there is such a thing] and start improvising from there.
Any specific help would be great
Message 10/19 15-Jan-05 @ 07:11 AM - RE: newbie needs 2-step beat help
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