Beat It! Joe and Pauly Ortiz of Heavenly Music
Special low internet price £4.95 normally £11.95 |
Beat It!
Joe and Pauly Ortiz of Heavenly Music
Special low internet price £4.95 normally £11.95
118 pages * 244 x 172 mm ISBN 1870775465
* Free disk with over 50 MIDI files
* Over 150 different drum patterns
* Covers a wide range of musical styles
* Rock, RnB, jazz, world rhythms, funk, dance
* Program drum and percussion patterns
* Top UK MIDI programming team
This book will help you to program your own realistic drum and percussion patterns. Not only can you read about a pattern, or see it in a grid - but, using the MIDI files on the accompanying disk, you can hear what it sounds like as well. If you use a MIDI sequencer and know how to access its edit facilities, you'll learn even more about phrasing and dynamics.
The patterns and the files on disk are loosely grouped into styles like 50s and 60s, Pop, Soul and Dance, Rock and R&B, and Jazz and World Rhythms, which include patterns like Reggae, Soca, Calypso and Latin. These styles are worth studying as they continue to influence mainstream Rock, Soul, Dance and other music in a big way.
You can also use the files to rehearse or jam along to, or to incorporate into your own demo songs or ideas.
Forget the rest, and learn from the best!
Contents
Count in.
50s, 60s and pop.
Dance and soul.
Jazz and world rhythms.
Rock and R&B.
GM drum map.
GM program change numbers.
Suggested listening.
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