Who call a song a "beat"

[Sepheritoh]

Who in his right mind would degrade his own music so much to call it a beat

I know I'm getting old and my linguistic skills has not developed anything since the 80's, but each time I see a post "Listen to my new beats" on something like that I can not help to think that this must be some 8 year old who just got garageband or PSX music 2000 for xmas and have no faintest idea what the word beat means.

Happily we do not see that on KvR too much, but I saw even on Soundclick some twirp's song named "100 free beats" made it to the top 10.

I have to admit that I never even bother to download or listen to anybody who has such a low opinion of his own music to call it a beat.

[cyanogen]

For the longest time I thought "beats" referred to drums.

[DwarfNebula]

i know it from hiphop, and to me a beat is more a rough layout than an outworked song. something to give a mc a hint to rap over. if its good it gets worked out (->song).

[ericj23]

i think you might have missed the bit about beatS - plural you see - you see most western popular music is based around rhythmic patterns which change over it's structure - ie lots of different beats - so its a just a slng way of admitting it fits into the modern popular music idiom

what worries me more is when people refer to their "tunes"

i do not care for your cough sweets - and if they're someone elses they are bound to have that mysterious fluff that boilings kept anywhere on your person always get.

[Sepheritoh]

what worries me more is when people refer to their "tunes"

Appropriately that always reminds me of the Warner Brothers TV program.

[alvakorn]

I call mine "jOintZ"
"Beats" is so 90's

[Sepheritoh]

I call mine "jOintZ"
"Beats" is so 90's

Don't tell vurt. He'll try to smoke it.

[Mr Arkadin]

i still call them tracks from when you could see the tracks in the vinyl (or was that bands?). Sometimes i'll even use the classical idiom and call them pieces.

Mr A

[VitaminD]

"listen to my MAD LOOPZ YO"

"YOooooooo LISTEN TO MY ONE-SHOTS.. tHEY OFF da CHaIn"


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(have to regain the missing 1700 posts some way )

[Kriminal]

.. tHEY OFF da CHaIn

Like that, may have to steal it

[Mr Arkadin]

The irony is, of course, that songs with tunes are called beats, and dance tracks with barely a melody in are called tunes. WTF?

[Armadillo]

i know it from hiphop, and to me a beat is more a rough layout than an outworked song. something to give a mc a hint to rap over. if its good it gets worked out (->song).

exactly. A beat is not some pop/rock song with 3 choruses and 3 verses. As Hip hop mainly is a beat with rapping on top. So, when there's no rapping .... ta da...it just a beat.

[VitaminD]

i know it from hiphop, and to me a beat is more a rough layout than an outworked song. something to give a mc a hint to rap over. if its good it gets worked out (->song).

exactly. A beat is not some pop/rock song with 3 choruses and 3 verses. As Hip hop mainly is a beat with rapping on top. So, when there's no rapping .... ta da...it just a beat.

so why not call it a rhythm?

[VitaminD]

i know it from hiphop, and to me a beat is more a rough layout than an outworked song. something to give a mc a hint to rap over. if its good it gets worked out (->song).

exactly. A beat is not some pop/rock song with 3 choruses and 3 verses. As Hip hop mainly is a beat with rapping on top. So, when there's no rapping .... ta da...it just a beat.

so why not call it a rhythm?

[John Vulich]

"Beats" doesn't offend me anywhere near as much as "Choonz". Every time I see that word used, I just want to PUNCH the person using it!