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Old 09-15-2007, 11:17 AM
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Re: Understanding Time Signatures and sounds


Hello Josha -
I'm trying to get a handle on just what it is that you are doing, and where you want to go with it. You say that you don't play the drums, you "make beats". On what? For what? It sounds like you want to do what a drummer does without being a drummer, or having the skills and knowledge that a drummer needs to have in order to create the "beats" that you are asking about. In other words, at this point, you don't know enough to know how much you don't know . I would suggest that you spend some time hanging out with a real drummer, studying what he or she does. Ask him/her about whatever you don't understand. Pick up a few basic drum books with information about how to read music and rhythms. No matter what you want to do in life, if you want to be good at it, you have to do some homework. Learning to read and write drum music will enable you to be creative whenever and wherever your muse speaks to you. Then, just maybe, you might get interested enough in what it is that we do that you might want to actually try your hand at it...your real hand with a real stick in it...and discover just how much fun this real drumming thing can be.

Good luck.
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