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wrack · Post by **wrack** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 10:08 am

Hello,

I need some sample notes of drum & bass bassline, if someone can post some please!
So my problem is i can develope sound, but i can't play it i need some theory or something.

Thanks for your time.

johnny2johnny · Post by **johnny2johnny** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 10:39 am

My young European friend... It takes years, and years, of practice to become a musician. If your good at making sounds, than you have an ear to be a musician. I guess the best thing for you to do is buy a book on music thoery. Anybody can e mail you midi files of bass lines... no big deal. It will help you see them in the sequencer for sure. But if you dont understand why a bass line is that way, than whats the point. I suggest you read a book. 2 of them.. actually. " Introduction To music theory " written by David Harp. and " The secrets of programming dance and electronica written by Roger Brown " eh, maybe somebody will let you see there midi files.... or your can buy midi files from cakewalk, and other places too. www.groovemonkey.com has some drum beats for sale.... yeah, thats right, look to cakewalk for bassline, and groovmonkey for drum beats.. check those websites.... other than that, I have no idea where to just dowload free midi files, as I dont look often at other people programming....

HOWEVER!!!!!! the little bit I did look at other peoples programming I did learn quite a bit so I do understand...

loopdon · Post by **loopdon** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 10:55 am

This is the forum for you:

http://www.dogsonacid.com/forumdisplay.php?forumid=4

johnny2johnny · Post by **johnny2johnny** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 11:03 am

loopdon wrote:This is the forum for you:

http://www.dogsonacid.com/forumdisplay.php?forumid=4

intresting forum..... Its like Sequel wrote the HTML....

wrack · Post by **wrack** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 11:18 am

Thanks for fast responce.

johnny2johnny wrote:My young European friend... It takes years, and years, of practice to become a musician. If your good at making sounds, than you have an ear to be a musician. I guess the best thing for you to do is buy a book on music thoery. Anybody can e mail you midi files of bass lines... no big deal. It will help you see them in the sequencer for sure. But if you dont understand why a bass line is that way, than whats the point. I suggest you read a book. 2 of them.. actually. " Introduction To music theory " written by David Harp. and " The secrets of programming dance and electronica written by Roger Brown " eh, maybe somebody will let you see there midi files.... or your can buy midi files from cakewalk, and other places too. www.groovemonkey.com has some drum beats for sale.... yeah, thats right, look to cakewalk for bassline, and groovmonkey for drum beats.. check those websites.... other than that, I have no idea where to just dowload free midi files, as I dont look often at other people programming....

HOWEVER!!!!!! the little bit I did look at other peoples programming I did learn quite a bit so I do understand...

I just wanto learn something from peoples who know what they are doing, anyway thanks for book names, gonna read those for sure! Thanks for reply.

loopdon wrote:This is the forum for you:
http://www.dogsonacid.com/forumdisplay.php?forumid=4

Thanks!

kranial · Post by **kranial** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 11:42 am

if you already have a melody try having the bassline follow the fundimentals of that. Most of the movement in dnb basslines comes from the modulation

MoreDread · Post by **MoreDread** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 11:49 am

First of all, do you know about scales?

Then, for book advise, I dont think music theory will help you much if you struggle to get a bassline, but the book "Composing Music - A New Approach" will show you how to write cool melodies/basslines for sure.

johnny2johnny · Post by **johnny2johnny** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 4:40 pm

MoreDread wrote:
Then, for book advise, I dont think music theory will help you much if you struggle to get a bassline, but the book "Composing Music - A New Approach" will show you how to write cool melodies/basslines for sure.

Very intresting looking book. I might read that myself even though I have read a great deal of books on music theory... At the end of the day, music theory is just about what great composers did. And not any true known rules other than how the art of music has evolved over the time man has experimented with it.

Plz try to know a little bit about something before knocking it. I searched your book on google and came back to respond. If you search " an introduction to music theory " by david harp. and that is exactly what I said, you would find a 30 or 45 page book that explains in the most absolute basic way what chords and scales are...

Its funny... The publisher of your book recomends the reader have a basic understanding of chords and scales... My book had no such requirements.

If the man just wants to learn by posting and asking questions on the forum, that is his buissiness.... But you aint gonna get it all from KvR...

You will get a lot!! I have definately gottan some great advice, great tips, wonderful feedback and help with mixing on some of my tracks.. sound design secrets I didnt know... You can even find tons of music theory here... and all I know.... I know...

wrack · Post by **wrack** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 6:05 am

Wow how many replies, thank you! About books im gonna read all of them

@MoreDread i know lil about scales, thanks for reply.
@kranial thanks for info i never knew that

Thank you all for help i really apreciate it!

MoreDread · Post by **MoreDread** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 9:48 am

Well, you could always try using pentatonic scales instead of the usual heptatonic ones, should be easier?

wrack · Post by **wrack** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 11:49 am

MoreDread wrote:Well, you could always try using pentatonic scales instead of the usual heptatonic ones, should be easier?

Hey! i remember in school we played pentatonic scales with panflute.
Thank you gonna try that on bassline after work!

Arsov · Post by **Arsov** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 12:31 pm

Come on, give him a break.

Books and music theory?... he just want to make some noise.

You need this:

http://www.computermusic.co.uk/page/com ... sue_cmu115

and at the bottom of that page you'll find how to order this issue.

Cheers

Alex

wrack · Post by **wrack** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 8:19 am

Arsov wrote:Come on, give him a break. Books and music theory?... he just want to make some noise.

You need this:

http://www.computermusic.co.uk/page/com ... sue_cmu115

and at the bottom of that page you'll find how to order this issue.

Cheers

Alex

Amazing thanks!

jcivil · Post by **jcivil** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 1:40 am

find out what notes are in a given chord, and how that works in practice

find out what part of that chord works at the bottom in a musical context, it might not always be the root of the chord

listen to and copy what you like, by your voice or what you use for a 'bass', off a record or off what they got nowadays, and train your Ear

wrack · Post by **wrack** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 12:01 pm

jcivil wrote:find out what notes are in a given chord, and how that works in practice

find out what part of that chord works at the bottom in a musical context, it might not always be the root of the chord

listen to and copy what you like, by your voice or what you use for a 'bass', off a record or off what they got nowadays, and train your Ear

Thank you.

jcivil wrote:by your voice or what you use for a 'bass'

I like this idea!

Drum & Bass Bassline help needed