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Forum nameThe Lesson
Topic subjectKey Phrase:"most dance music i hear now" meaning YOU.
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2537492, Key Phrase:"most dance music i hear now" meaning YOU.
Posted by disco dj, Wed Apr-13-11 04:08 PM
>it's throwin' in bleeps and swirls and strings over a four on
>the floor style beat
>programmin' four bars
>rinse repeat
>throw in a change up
>etc


aka: "All Rap is just cursing and drug references" Said by someone who hears a really bad Gangsta Rap song on "Dateline" and bases it off that.

So yeah.


>
>you're right, you don't have to know how to play music to make
>hip hop
>you have to know how to hear music
>to know what sounds good to the masses
>and will work
>that's a skill that's overlooked and underrated
>havin' that ear for samples and makin' it work

so how is that any different from using synth patches?

( and AGAIN, not all Dance music is Loops and patches. MOST producers play out the parts on keys. Where are you guys getting this shit from?)


>sure, you may not know what chord progression you just
>sampled
>or even what note
>but you might know instinctly that if you put say, impeach the
>president under blues and pants, that shit will rock
>not many can do that

and what does that have to do with the actual 'scientific' parts of making music? Try telling that shit to a piano teacher when she wants you to play a chord.

and let's be real. This WHOLE conversation started with me talking about how you don't have to be a musician to make good Hip-Hop. you're actually proving my point. you don't have to have ANY trained musical talent and THAT'S why a lot of "trained" musicians don't respect Hip-Hop music.