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RyanG · Post by **RyanG** » Thu May 29, 2008 4:37 pm

OK, so I've been exploring digital music and sound design for about a year or two now. I don't know when this started happening, but I've recently noticed that whenever I think of a drumbeat and sometimes even melodies and basses, I always think in a 16 beat grid. I'll have this good beat in my head, and then when I run to my FL Studio to stick it in, it's almost always exactly 16 beats.

Does anybody else have this happen to them? Is it good or bad?

Rottweiler · Post by **Rottweiler** » Thu May 29, 2008 4:42 pm

haha, ive got much trickier thins...

BERFAB · Post by **BERFAB** » Thu May 29, 2008 4:50 pm

RyanG wrote:OK, so I've been exploring digital music and sound design for about a year or two now. I don't know when this started happening, but I've recently noticed that whenever I think of a drumbeat and sometimes even melodies and basses, I always think in a 16 beat grid. I'll have this good beat in my head, and then when I run to my FL Studio to stick it in, it's almost always exactly 16 beats.

Does anybody else have this happen to them? Is it good or bad?

Apparently it happens to every single current artist on the charts. Very tough to find one that doesn't occur in 4 measures. Check any standard loop library (in 4/4) and you'll see that most of the loops are 2-4 measures.

xoxos · Post by **xoxos** » Thu May 29, 2008 5:46 pm

there are a lot of accessible musics (most other cultures, classical, metal) that employ other counting schema.

think of the theme to 'mission impossible,' which most people in the west know. X o o X o o X o X o = 10

davidbuhau · Post by **davidbuhau** » Thu May 29, 2008 6:12 pm

for sure... and of course... all of us who use a computer to do electronic music eventually end up thinking this way, i would assume

david

Lotuzia · Post by **Lotuzia** » Thu May 29, 2008 7:45 pm

RyanG wrote:OK, so I've been exploring digital music and sound design for about a year or two now. I don't know when this started happening, but I've recently noticed that whenever I think of a drumbeat and sometimes even melodies and basses, I always think in a 16 beat grid. I'll have this good beat in my head, and then when I run to my FL Studio to stick it in, it's almost always exactly 16 beats.

Does anybody else have this happen to them? Is it good or bad?

Just because in an inconscious way you're reproducing schemas of the music you listen to.

Musical creation is often the result of reordering parts of your musical background and current knowledge with a (hopefully) personal touch

Should you listen to other musical genres in the future and you'll have other ideas and schemas.

4/4 and 16th is just the ultradominant style.(not the simplest time sig, but not a very complex one either)

LtZ

videzyrah · Post by **videzyrah** » Thu May 29, 2008 7:54 pm

I actually 'developed' a few ideas for grid based guitar/bass/drum notation a few years ago. I thought I ought to try to "publish" them but couldn't think of how to do that.

Rottweiler · Post by **Rottweiler** » Thu May 29, 2008 8:13 pm

actually, when i listen to music usally i not just only see the colours and shapes of it, but i see a sequencer too, seeing the notes n tracks n stuff.

Meffy · Post by **Meffy** » Thu May 29, 2008 8:29 pm

I wonder whether goth musicians think in a dirg.

Lotuzia · Post by **Lotuzia** » Thu May 29, 2008 8:35 pm

Rottweiler wrote:actually, when i listen to music usally i not just only see the colours and shapes of it, but i see a sequencer too, seeing the notes n tracks n stuff.

Lotuzia buys a new pair of glasses to Rottweiler with pinks trees and full of nice things inside

Cordelia · Post by **Cordelia** » Thu May 29, 2008 8:47 pm

Once when I was sick I played cards for weeks on end. After that I would count something and realize I'd counted 9, 10, jack, queen, instead of 9, 10, 11, 12. I also noticed I was mentally sorting things in the world like they were playing cards. Like, I'd see a family and think- boy, girl, boy, mom, dad, mom, boy, mom, dad...
It took a few weeks to go away.

After I bought my first computer I had strange, very boring organizational dreams for a while. It actually scared me, as I thought the computer was going to effect my creativity in a negative way.

Maybe it did.

jancivil · Post by **jancivil** » Mon Jun 23, 2008 9:20 pm

I always think in a 16 beat grid. I'll have this good beat in my head, and then when I run to my FL Studio to stick it in, it's almost always exactly 16 beats.

Does anybody else have this happen to them? Is it good or bad?

It is a bad thing. Unless you like the idea of having been programmed.

Thinking in a grid - anybody else do this?