Thursday, December 31, 2009

With Hi-Hat Drum Samples - 2 mistakes


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HI-drum samples available today are different as they are popular. In principle, each has the bass drum and snare combination, you can create a HELLO are working in the background, patients and contributes a song. The effect of hi-hat can not really be measured, but suffice it to say I'm your favorite songs would sound very different without the Hi-Hat (or just the hat) pattern the support of key actions.

The two errors that are not only producers ofthe domain of amateur producers who do not know, but has also beaten by professional music producers and decision makers.

The first error of the volume. The role of the HI-Hat-drum samples is often overestimated and overemphasized by many songs expertly arranged. The human ear, they say, is a perception of frequencies which won HALLO-hats filling stages of development. Apparently, some predators aircraft made noises that had the same frequencies, and weSo we hear about their actual volume.

A good way to go is to combat this disparity, which has up to a point where you think the mix sounds just right, and further reduce the nearly two decibels. Each listener will still be able to take them because of our superior performance of this sound, so do not worry "Mixing it out ', the drum samples.

The second mistake is to achieve the authenticity of your drum samples ... If you are trying to establishSongs like with a real drum part, do not make the mistake that many others do. Let me give an example: A constant play closes HALLO-hats in the left channel once every 16 Note, 16 times in a bar, and the third on the beat, we hear has an open HELLO, affecting the same time. What's wrong with this? Well, almost all the real drums comes only with a series of reservoirs to manipulate, and the launch of a hi-closed has repeatedly and consistently shown thatThe pools were closed, but also hit the pools open at the same time. This is not technically possible, do not do it if you try, in a tone of authenticity to your Beats battery. Dance Tunes, on the other hand, often two or three different types of hats to the game the same time, and if the electronic vibe set, going crazy. If it sounds good, it's all good!

You can also use the standard drum patterns in samplesPrograms like Toontrack EZ Drummer and BFD, as well as others. These programs usually include models that really struck by a professional drummer on a drum machine and do not include these types of errors. You can learn a lot with programs like this.

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Chinese musical instruments


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As every country has its own traditional music and musical instruments, China also has traditional musical instruments that have developed over the centuries. Traditional Chinese musical instruments were made of the materials have classified information. These materials are namely, stone, silk, gourd, metal, bamboo, clay, leather and wood. Among these were exceeded in stone and wooden tools. Chinese musical instruments can be classified into stringWind or percussion instruments. Can be classified into plucked string instruments and string instruments. The tools consist of older people in long harp, panpipes, flutes, the Sheng, or harmonica and percussion instruments, such as clappers, gongs and drums. Various lutes and fiddles were introduced later to China from Central Asia.

Erhu is a kind of stringed instrument. It's a two-stringed violin, and is one of the most popular in ChinaHu-Qin family. Gao-hu is another stringed instrument. Gao-Hu is particularly acute Erhu melodies you can not play and often used for performing vivid and lively rhythms. Gao-Hu has louder volume yet brighter tones, and serves both as a solo instrument and leads to the realization of Cantonese operas and folk melodies.

Pipe is a kind of plucked instruments and belongs to the family of the lute. This is a four string with 30 keys and pear-shaped body. The pipe istaken up by the musician and played with five small plectrum attached to each finger right hand. This instrument has a remarkable power of expression and an extremely dynamic. Yueqin, a plucked string instrument, is a moon-shaped lute with a short neck and four strings. Gugino is another important tool to pinch, which is like a seven-stringed zither.

Wind musical instruments are very popular in China. A Dizi, which is traditionally made of bamboo, thewind instrument easier. This tool is particularly important because it is a cheap and relatively easy to learn.

Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Get Up, Get On and off - The early bird catches the record deal!


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Imagine ... Are already in local hospitals and op-station waiting for the removal of your pesky plant breakage. Wait and wait in side splitting agony while your doctor chats with the nurses, gathering phone numbers from those hot. After what seems like forever, you will prepare and launch the operation. What should have completed 20 minutes, were in two hours.

He jokes and talks about his cherry red Ferrari, while you're lying unconscious withBelly ripped open. Finally, we have sewn and ready for recovery, but the surgeon and the anesthesiologist's super crack with a debate on the science of golf games and seem to have forgotten, you're stuck helplessly between them, with tubes in every orifice. If this is your experience, you freak out, sue the hospital and your hot-shot doc would follow pans for cleaning at the hospital convalescence state.

Unfortunately, as our hunting rock doc, manyMusicians feel that the consequences of their actions are irrelevant and treat their audience with the same apathetic does not take into account that the above-referred doctor treated his patients with bad. These selfish creative late for gigs, set up at their own leisure (about the same pace that the turtle than 100 years, would run the Boston Marathon), so long playing a set, as they want (a regardless of their designated record time) and break / clear the stagethey please with regard to little or nothing for the planning of the club.

However, if you ask one of these artists, it seems that they believe their music career ... Career and should be treated with the same importance and professionalism, if you have established a budding rock star or a surgeon? It should, but often is not, and the bands will find their reputation tarnished with labels like: slow, lazy and irresponsible, because, obviously, do not exhaust theirOn (and off) in a timely manner. Get branded as a sloppy bow and watch the music industry people jump ship faster than the rich ladies on the Titanic.

Here are some tips to help you get up, get up and down in a timely and professional impress the powers-that-and fans want to leave more:

1.) Having everything before setting Set Up --- It's not that you find only five minutes before playing. Concerts arebooked days, weeks or months in advance, so there's no reason not to be well informed and equipped prior to your arrival and furnished. guitars and drums should be set, drum kits and guitar pedals set, and dialed the number and song lists printed and distributed, so all the time is minimal.

Once the stage is set, a professional band will only play their equipment on stage, close, and some last minute tweaks before they're ready to rock and roll.Rocker old turtle, but the road will throw down the cases on stage and then forced to friends, fans and the music industry twiddle their thumbs waiting, while every piece of gear is pulled out, unwrapped, wiped out, screwed in place and the place, slowly but surely. In truth, it's so interesting how little paint dry without the guilty pleasure of having high from smoking.

2.) Soundcheck / Line of Control is not a mini concert --- You can view your soundgun, because the concert was not before the concert, but you have friends, drag the sound check an hour and a half waiting for the bands outside the door of your personal equipment and sound control are aligned. The same applies for the review. You may be surprised to know that the public is not at all happy to work to sit and listen to you your live sound in front of their eyes and their time. Save the lengthy tune-up and control the completion of the video-tape.Get your levels get to a fast and rockin '!

3.) Do you intend to set the time for your set --- The key is set to close the preparatory work is under way before the night of the concert. Many artists believe that more goes on stage over the audience up to speed, but you are saying something "too well". Organize your set, time and time again and make sure that in few minutes with your nameSet list now. Eardrums as passive-aggressive little trick in two or three extra songs at the end of the sentence or lure your friends in shouting for an encore only serves to infuriate the people in good health and to confuse the public and broader development and chat among yourselves and the audience between songs just stupid. The closer your set is professionally sound in the ears of the public and happier that will make your bookers forOrganizers and players club.

4.) Tear Down should be the fastest of all --- If you think your organization has been rapid, the band should be shot down quickly in comparison. Much time is wasted every night in a place of music as musicians dawdle after the set, drinking and chatting with friends, and his gait is placed on stage so that the artist always saliva. Get your tools, moving from the stage, and take it outside or in the greenRoom. There you can pack your equipment, you clean out and pack away into cases and by car. Then it's time to tip a few beers and gave the masses until closing time, without interrupting the flow of the evening.

Imagine ... This is a local club waiting to see an act from the label that you explore. Wait and wait for more more boredom and drinking, while the band you've been to see him chatting with women in the room, so that T-shirtand CDs, which are really hot. After what seems like forever, the band takes the stage and begins their set. How should a presentation of 30 minutes was turned into an hour or more, when the band plays a loose, and vote often remain in standing to complain over the sound of that cry out for drinks and bartenders do tricks with audience, while you sit impressed try to get a feel for the band's style. Finally, their set ended, and wait for the approach based on bandThe name of your label, but this is still super rock star on stage, packaging infinite strings and wiped each piece of equipment while they chat with each other as their set rocked.

If this're A & R experience, would you give up waiting to speak with these lazy musicians, go back to your brand and tell them about this band and especially these hot-shot rock star job updraft to Starbuck's to be forgotten until go to social security. This does not need. Learning to happen to get up, get up and grow. There will soon be the reputation of a simple modification to work with, professional, reliable band. After all, you never know who in the audience, you'll see in one night.