MUTANT DANCEHALL COMPETITION - LISTEN AND VOTE!!

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Almost got mine finished :wink:

I have no idea :duncelol:

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Yes my dude

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I don’t get why this is a question. Why wouldn’t you be able to?

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:thinking: :thinking: :thinking: message getting mixed

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In answer to Ronzlo’s Q I have no idea if you can do melodies in 3/4 at 156bpm.
I also have no idea why he would ask this question.

Is there something inherently weird about that time sig/bpm that makes melodies shit?

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he saying 101 is shit bpm but he just dum

dancehall jus be like that

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I dunno man, my thangs be thanging quite nice on this one.
Dancehall been good to me.

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You have found the key.

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Was tryna go 404 BPMs but couldnt find it

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I’ve been working on my tune at 202.

Last week.

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I don’t even know what BPM I AM now.

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bpm is 101 fellas, or are you doing 202 and haltfime drums?

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156 = 101 + 55:

If 1/4 = 55, then 3/4 = 156.

You could theoretically mix out of 3/4@156 into 101, 202, etc.

:wwf:

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maybe im rusty, but this isnt how time signatures work, no? the “denominator” of a time signature only tells you how many beats are in a measure. that doesn’t affect the length of the beat. you’re only changing where the emphasis lies

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Man I suck ass at sticking to the genre. I always end up slowly drifting away

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Plenty of time left on this one - just wanted to give you all a quick heads up, I’ve updated the production comp schedule HERE

The Grime comp in Sept has been rainchecked, and I’ve replaced it with something else.

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Sounds fun

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It’s a bit more complicated than that, but yeah, I can see what @_ronzlo is saying, even if he’s not using the time signature things correctly.

In a DJ/beatmatching context, it would be possible to mix a 156 BPM song into a 101 BPM song, if you sync up the beats of the first, to land on what would be the triplet rhythm of the second. This is very hard to pull off in a real situation, since it would fuck up the phrasing completely, but it’s technically possible.

Can explain a bit how time signatures actually work too, by copy-pasting from this page.

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"In simple meters, time signatures (also called meter signatures) express two things: 1) how many beats are contained in each measure, and 2) the beat unit (which note value gets the beat). Time signatures are expressed by two numbers, one above the other, placed after the clef. "

A time signature is not a fraction, though it may look like one; note that there is no line between the two numbers. In simple meters, the top number of a time signature represents the number of beats in each measure, while the bottom number represents the beat unit.

In simple meters, the top number is always 2, 3, or 4, corresponding to duple, triple, or quadruple beat patterns. The bottom number is usually one of the following:

  • 2, which means the half note gets the beat.
  • 4, which means the quarter note gets the beat.
  • 8, which means the eighth note gets the beat.

You may also see the bottom number 16 (the sixteenth note gets the beat) or 1 (the whole note gets the beat) in simple meter time signatures."

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All I know about music theory I learned from Adam Neely. :smiling_face: