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Really dumb arrangement question
Most of my tracks have a bassline that is on the off-beat, and a kick that is on the beat.
Fairly standard I'm sure.
Kick - bass - kick - bass - kick - bass - kick - bass
...type thing.
My problem is if I want to start my track with, say, the bassline and a swishy pad, when the drums come in it sounds very odd and off beat (because the ears think that the '2' is the '1' until the kick drum comes in).
Anyone have thoughts on getting around this. Obviously 'put a high hat on the 1 from the start' would work - but I kind of want no 'best' at all to begin the track.
Any help appreciated.
Comments
Maybe leave out the first kick drum on the first bar of the drum beat?
edit - read that too fast: 'best' = beat. Ignore below. But still Go Forth.
@Matt_Fletcher_2000 you could put any form of percussive hit on the first downbeat: airy cymbal crash, low thud boom, etc in order to lock the listener to the One. Then repeat as needed to retain said on-the-One sense of gravity pull and let that bass hit the offbeats as you do. GO FORTH MAN.
I can't count how many songs have started out with syncopated lines that fool you into thinking that the downbeat is 'here' until you discover that the downbeat is 'there'. I wouldn't shy away from such a thing - it'll give your listeners a little work to do which will pay off when they DO get it.
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Thanks all.
Much appreciated.
Right now it just sounds wrong to me in my track, but I might try some more subtle percussion to help matters before the kick comes in.