3/4 time

[Les Braun]

Don't forget the minuets!

[fauna]

round up.

rather than making one bar of 3/4, make 3 bars of 4/4 with yr hits landing where they would on 3/4 pattern. 12 is the lowest common denominator (4 x 3).

same thing for making 5/4 beats, round up to 20 (4 x 5).

good luck.

im just so confused how to do this. like i need a detailed expression could you help me out fauna?

yeah mans - its just like blindfold explains.

you just gotta think of your line in threes (so, 1-2-3-2-2-3-3-2-3, is 3/4 right?). you put 4 of these <-- together, and you get the same number of beats (12) as 3 bars of 4/4.

so on a 404, pick yr bpm, set pattern length to 12, tap: kick-snare-snare for 4 bars and yr golden.

make sense, or is it worse

[DREWDANK]

starting too let me fuck around wit it

[hurlingdervish]

anecdote:

this one dood who wanted me to fix up his beats and give em the spit shine sent me a FL studio file...

the song was in 4/4 but he wrote it in 3/4 on accident not knowing what he was doing!

now think about that...it doesnt sound bad until you actually think about how 3/4 works

he didnt actually write a 3/4 song so the bars didnt match up ANYWHERE

the 4th bar would be the first on the second, and then the second on the third and so and so on

thats "going with what sounds good" to the extreme, he just kept adding on to it until it was literally impossible to rearrange since the bars never matched up and he was actually using something like triplets to get a normal feel to it. just looking at the project gave me a headache.

[Huph]

^^^^ Holy god almighty! That sounds like a nightmare!

thats "going with what sounds good" to the extreme,

^^^ This.