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In a previous article “Repetition and Musical Learning,” the focus was on various ways to use meaningful repetitions to enhance musical learning. In this article we look at the history of repetition as it evolved through the centuries of music development.
Repetition of tones and patterns is an innate part of all music. Repetition encompasses a large variety of types and forms. Repetition gives structure and meaning to help us understand the music. It is a very important principle in composing or improvising music.
How does this relate to children and music? Repetition in melodic patterns is very prevalent in children’s songs, i.e., “Frere Jacques” or “Are You Sleeping.” Repetition may take the form of exact imitation or be a variation of a melody. The spectrum of repetition in music extends to repeating entire sections of a musical selection.
Carl Orff, renown German composer and music educator, and his collaborator five finger shoes , Gunild Keetman, outlined a process of introducing music to children. The process parallels the development of Western music. Using a single repeated tone (pedal), a simple accompaniment is created to add elemental harmony to a melody. Ostinatos or verbatim repeated patterns occur throughout a musical selection or a segment of the selection. The earliest examples of ostinato are found in 13th century music.
Ostinatos are used in a variety of ways and with a variety of musical media, i.e., clapping cheap coach purses outlet , voice, unpitched instruments, pitched instruments. Rhythm and melodic ostinatos appear as accompaniments for speech chants and melodies that are sung or played on a variety of instruments. Borduns (drones) are repeated harmonic patterns and appear in early music accompaniments. Other musical examples of repetition include canon, round, theme and variations, chaconnes, and rondo (ABACA) form. The world of repetition in music is multi-faceted and limitless whether for the composer or the listener.
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The shift has been made, my fellow beat makers. There are many rap beat making programs on the market now that will let you produce your own beats directly from your computer. You don’t have to rely on pricey musical equipment to make your own beats anymore.
These rap beat making programs are virtual replicas of old school drum machines, and many will allow you to do more than you ever could with just a drum machine. These new programs have sound banks, timelines, arpeggiation, mixing capabilities and many more useful features. If you are new to making beats you may find that it is easier to begin using this music software than actually buying and learn to program beats on physical music equipment.
Here are a few basic pointers to get you started no matter what software you use to make your own beats.
1. The Controls
The main controls will be just like you use on a stereo – record, play fast forward, rewind, pause, and stop. These may even be synched up to your keyboard so you don’t have to only use a mouse as your input source. Pretty self explanatory.
2. The Timeline
Just like a song on an mp3 player, the beat you create will flow from left to right as it progresses. The program will have a timeline that the track follows. It will be marked with timekeeping lines that will be reference points for you to use. You will literally plug your beats or notes in to slots on this timeline where you want them to be played.
3. The Tracks
This where each sound gets its space in the timeline. The tracks will be listed on the left hand side, from top to bottom. Each track will most likely play one sound. For instance, the snare and hi hats will each have their own tracks and will have different beats located in different parts of the timeline.
4. The Sound Bank
The sound bank is where you choose from a library of instruments or drum sounds and assign each one you want to use to its own track. A good beat making program will have hundreds (if not thousands) of sounds for you to choose from. Different snares, basses, hi hats coach purses outlet , claps, effects and instruments should be available to you to use in your track.
5. The Tempo
This is how fast or slow the beat of the song will be. There will be a way for you to control how fast the song is going. You may want an uptempo groove or a lazy slow beat, so you will be able to either manually type in a number or use up and down arrows to change the tempo.
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6. Mixing
There will sliders or knobs just like on mixing boards that let you control the volume, how loud each part should be. If the bass drum sound is not loud enough you can use these controls to pump it up a little more.
There will also knobs that “pan” from left to right, which let you adjust which speaker certain sounds are heard more in. If you only want to organ sound to be heard in the left speaker you will turn the “pan” knob all the way to the left.
7. Effects
Most good beat making programs will allows you to assign effects to different tracks to add a little something interesting and different. Delay will add some repeating echo, while reverb will make the instrument sound as if it was recorded in a hallway or concert hall. Distortion can be used to “dirty” up he sound, and chorus will double the sound. There is no clear cut rule to using effects abercrombie uk , and they can make really add character and style to the expression of your tracks.
In a nutshell, most rap beat making programs will have all of these parts. Just knowing this little bit about what each piece of the software is used to for will put you way ahead of most beginners and save you lots of time when trying to figure out a new program.
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You listen to the classic tunes of the Beatles. All is well and good jordan heels , when you accidentally hit the switch button of your player, changing your “Yellow Submarine” to Green Day’s latest album. Reacting as if holding on a hot pot, you immediately turn the volume down and breathe a sigh of relief. Or not. Ten minutes past the song, you feel that something isn’t right. Even if you love the Green Day album, you just cannot seem to listen to it anymore. You then shut the player off feeling tired and confused. This scenario usually happens when one switches from classic songs to modern ones. This experience is what people call overcompression of the dynamic range. Hail to the loudness war.
The loudness war, or what audiophiles refer to as an assault on music, has been an open secret of the recording industry for nearly the past two decades and has gotten more attention in recent years as CDs have pushed the limits when it comes to loudness, thanks to the ever-changing digital technology. The “war” points out the competition among record companies to make louder and louder albums. But this loudness war could be doing more damage than what meets the ears—this could also be responsible for halting technological advances in sound quality for years to come.
Music is very similar to speech, being dynamic and all. There are quiet five fingers shoes , also loud moments that serve to emphasize each other and relate their meanings through their relative levels of soundness. For example, when a person shouts, the loudness of the shout brings out a message of urgency, anger, or surprise. When the dynamic ranges of songs are heavily reduced for the sake of achieving loudness, the sound becomes similar to someone shouting constantly. Not only is all impact lost, but the constant level of the sound becomes fatiguing to the ears. So the question still remains: why is achieving greater loudness so important that the natural flow of music has been so readily given up? The answer goes way back to the time of the vinyl records.
Loudness of songs has always been a desirable quality for popular music. The louder the song is cheap coach purses , the more it stands out from ambient noise and the more it grabs the attention. Studies in the field of psychoacoustics (how humans perceive sound) shows that people judges the loudness of a sound based on its average loudness, not the peak loudness. Back in the early 1960s, record labels began engaging in a loudness battle ever since they observed that louder songs in jukeboxes tended to collect more attention than quieter ones. To be competitive, record companies wanted to raise the loudness of their songs. But the vinyl’s physical properties halted the engineer’s ability to increase the loudness. Since there is a limit on the amount of surface per vinyl disc, gaining loudness means sacrificing playing time. In order to save the cost of manufacturing an excessive number of vinyl discs per album, playing time usually won out over loudness.
The loudness war can end and give rise to the next generation of high-fidelity audio all depends on the attitude of the consumer. Unlike the CD and DVD video, there is no overwhelming industrial push toward the next level of sound quality. How songs and albums will sound depends on whether or not the listener actually cares about the complexity of the music.

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