how many bars do you usually make your patterns?

Scream NINJA · Post by **Scream NINJA** » Tue Oct 04, 2011 3:13 am

i was curious about how many bars people usually make specific elements of in their tracks.

usually for drum patterns i tend to always go 4 bars.

Melody is something that i try to go for 4 bars but usually end up with 2.

Do you guys have ideal lengths to patterns or do you just do whatever you feel is suitable at the time.

houseofninjas · Post by **houseofninjas** » Tue Oct 04, 2011 3:19 am

I usually do 8 bar patterns for everything and 4 bars for a chorus type thing.
It's fun to do 8 bar patterns in 8/4 time though, so you get 16 bar patters

Dj_just_jeff · Post by **Dj_just_jeff** » Tue Oct 04, 2011 4:14 am

Songs are 4 or 8 bar intro and 16 verse. But do what ya like. Some of dooms stuff had no chorus just rhymes for 2 or 3 min.

LimpyLoo · Post by **LimpyLoo** » Tue Oct 04, 2011 4:42 am

99 bars 4 LYFE

IIIII · Post by **IIIII** » Tue Oct 04, 2011 2:43 pm

LimpyLoo wrote:99 bars 4 LYFE

i set to 99 bars w/ 40bpm so it never runs out, then play drums live w/o quantize and w/o click on. then just layer like its a non-panning 12 track

_limpid · Post by **_limpid** » Tue Oct 04, 2011 4:38 pm

IIIII wrote:
LimpyLoo wrote:99 bars 4 LYFE
i set to 99 bars w/ 40bpm so it never runs out, then play drums live w/o quantize and w/o click on. then just layer like its a non-panning 12 track

yo that's genuis.... gotta try that

Heat Vision · Post by **Heat Vision** » Wed Oct 05, 2011 1:02 am

haha i had to try as well after i read that post.

quite dope actually. i always make beats the resample method so i thought "the only disadvantage aside from the polyphony is that you cant adjust the samples volume after the pattern or whatever is made."

this makes me want to start fuckin with this method =D thanks for the tip IIII.

only thing im not pleased with though is having to record into audacity

but for dope leveling its worth it.

hseiken · Post by **hseiken** » Wed Oct 05, 2011 3:20 am

Always depends on my mood and the song. I've done as many as half bar patterns and as long as 32.

Ill Green · Post by **Ill Green** » Thu Oct 06, 2011 2:07 am

LimpyLoo wrote:99 bars 4 LYFE

This.

ellaguru · Post by **ellaguru** » Thu Oct 06, 2011 8:47 am

Ill Green wrote:
LimpyLoo wrote:99 bars 4 LYFE
This.

sometimes i've done this with the sp303 in order to have a track from the debut to the end, a complete track in sum. ("in sum" is taken litterarly from italian, i don't know if it works in english

)

mr16levels · Post by **mr16levels** » Thu Oct 06, 2011 11:28 am

I'm a 4 bar man myself

groktopus · Post by **groktopus** » Thu Oct 06, 2011 4:18 pm

All of the above. It just depends what I'm feeling and the type of song I'm trying to make.

Heat Vision · Post by **Heat Vision** » Sat Oct 08, 2011 6:03 pm

hey i made this beat using that 99 bar method. Big up to IIIII =D

http://soundcloud.com/heatvision/boobies

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