What is a groove?
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- KVRAF
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- 5524 posts since 5 May, 2007 from Mars Colony
Anyone have a simple definition?
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- KVRAF
- 5223 posts since 20 Jul, 2010
It's the underlying set of pulses on which events happen the most, each with certain characteristics, such as a probabilistic weight and degree of accent. In short, it's the most basic of rhythmic expectations as based on what the listener has already heard. This is why loops are sometimes called grooves.
Oh, you wanted a simple definition? It's when the stuff happens
Oh, you wanted a simple definition? It's when the stuff happens
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 5524 posts since 5 May, 2007 from Mars Colony
But what about grooves with pitch (i.e. bass and melodic sorts of grooves)?
Surely no one would deny there is such a thing as a bass groove. Are you saying that is only referring to the bass rhythm?
Surely no one would deny there is such a thing as a bass groove. Are you saying that is only referring to the bass rhythm?
"You don’t expect much beyond a gaping, misspelled void when you stare into the cold dark place that is Internet comments."
---Salon on internet trolls attacking Cleveland kidnapping victim Amanda Berry
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- KVRist
- 350 posts since 11 May, 2008
A recurrent pattern of rhythmic micro-deviations?
I mean, if you consistently play a certain ostinato ahead of the beat by a certain tiny amount, that would generate a groove. A different one would emerge if you consistently extend the weak notes, generating syncopation feeling, for instance... swing in jazz is a kind of groove.
I mean, if you consistently play a certain ostinato ahead of the beat by a certain tiny amount, that would generate a groove. A different one would emerge if you consistently extend the weak notes, generating syncopation feeling, for instance... swing in jazz is a kind of groove.
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- KVRAF
- 6319 posts since 18 Jul, 2008 from New York
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- KVRAF
- 2022 posts since 15 Aug, 2012 from Australia
an optimist lives in a groove, a pessimist lives in a rut.
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- KVRAF
- 1724 posts since 31 Dec, 2004 from betwixt
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- KVRAF
- 5223 posts since 20 Jul, 2010
Well, there are shades of meaning to the word. To me, it's primarily rhythmic, and that's the academic meaning as far as I'm concerned. In a more loose sense you can think of a groove as any set of tendencies, rhythmic, melodic, habitual. Like a literal physical groove, it's a low energy state, the path of least resistance and maximum momentum. The concept can apply to anything.A.M. Gold wrote:But what about grooves with pitch (i.e. bass and melodic sorts of grooves)?
Surely no one would deny there is such a thing as a bass groove. Are you saying that is only referring to the bass rhythm?
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do_androids_dream do_androids_dream https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=164034 - KVRAF
- 2908 posts since 26 Oct, 2007 from Kent, UK
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- KVRist
- 103 posts since 6 Feb, 2012
I've heard people referring to a primarily rhythmic or bass track as "a groove track".
I guess the "groove track" would be the underlying rhythmic and melodic foundation of the song, the track that "creates the groove".
I guess the "groove track" would be the underlying rhythmic and melodic foundation of the song, the track that "creates the groove".
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- KVRAF
- 1735 posts since 26 Feb, 2013 from Sweden
It is any pattern or path that produces dopamine.
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- KVRAF
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- 5524 posts since 5 May, 2007 from Mars Colony
Dave Pensado said JJP says "just get a groove going". JJP is a bass player. I'm not sure exactly what either one of them means by that but Pensado was reacting to a sweet little snippet of acoustic guitar strumming that had a clear, catchy chord progression (and a great rhythm with strong momentum for the song).Sendy wrote:Well, there are shades of meaning to the word. To me, it's primarily rhythmic, and that's the academic meaning as far as I'm concerned. In a more loose sense you can think of a groove as any set of tendencies, rhythmic, melodic, habitual. Like a literal physical groove, it's a low energy state, the path of least resistance and maximum momentum. The concept can apply to anything.A.M. Gold wrote:But what about grooves with pitch (i.e. bass and melodic sorts of grooves)?
Surely no one would deny there is such a thing as a bass groove. Are you saying that is only referring to the bass rhythm?
"You don’t expect much beyond a gaping, misspelled void when you stare into the cold dark place that is Internet comments."
---Salon on internet trolls attacking Cleveland kidnapping victim Amanda Berry
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- Rad Grandad
- 38044 posts since 6 Sep, 2003 from Downeast Maine
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- KVRAF
- 6113 posts since 7 Jan, 2005 from Corporate States of America
As simple as i can put it: something that makes you start bobbing your head to it...
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