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Subject: newbie needs 2-step beat help
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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
Message 11/19 15-Jan-05 @ 07:28 AM - RE: newbie needs 2-step beat help
Thanks - example #4 has the first backbeat moved up by a 16th - that may be it. I just wonder if that is the 2-step everyone talks about. Time to set it up in midi
Thanks very much
Message 12/19 15-Jan-05 @ 11:32 AM - RE: newbie needs 2-step beat help
anyways, dont have time now to make a visual examples, but your classic 2-step is sorta fragmented sounding, skippy hats nd a breakbeat sorta kik & snare which skips off the second kik beat & snare on 4, variations around the second kik can be little grace fills of kik etc, as long as it holds the groove
why doncha get some beats off the www and copy them to see the timing?
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Message 13/19 15-Jan-05 @ 12:57 PM - RE: newbie needs 2-step beat help
why didnt you bloody say so in the first place. most people mean uk garage when they say 2step nowadays!
umm... i cant show you since the grid dont work, but if u have a 1/16th beat grid, kick falls on 1 and 11, main snare on 5 and 13, and trick is to add much lower additional snares on 8 and 10 combined with hats on 9 and 11 (those bits are the ones you have to experiment with)
Drep? as in Ray Keith? afaik, he uses amen breaks in 90% of his tunes, and that shit gets way comples to explain in a simple manner.
Message 14/19 15-Jan-05 @ 12:58 PM - RE: newbie needs 2-step beat help
Message 15/19 15-Jan-05 @ 02:25 PM - RE: newbie needs 2-step beat help
I understand the 16ths milan so thanks for taking the time to share that. I've spent hours practicing and searching the web.
This beat has backbeat snares so the disjointed feel I hear may be coming from:
1) the broken hats
2) a second snare line played over the basic DnB 2-step groove
appreciate the help...I'm off to experiment
Message 16/19 15-Dec-05 @ 05:33 PM - RE: newbie needs 2-step beat help
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I had an idea for a script once. It's basically Jaws except when the guys in the boat are going after Jaws, they look around and there's an even bigger Jaws. The guys have to team up with Jaws to get Bigger Jaws.... I call it... Big Jaws!!!
Message 17/19 20-Dec-05 @ 02:46 PM - RE: newbie needs 2-step beat help
I'll repost with another basic grime/dubstep beat.
Message 18/19 20-Dec-05 @ 02:48 PM - RE: newbie needs 2-step beat help
Message 19/19 20-Dec-05 @ 07:02 PM - RE: newbie needs 2-step beat help
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I had an idea for a script once. It's basically Jaws except when the guys in the boat are going after Jaws, they look around and there's an even bigger Jaws. The guys have to team up with Jaws to get Bigger Jaws.... I call it... Big Jaws!!!
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