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TV Dinner by McD
I stumbled on this track by @McD and loved it. I’m guessing you will, too. Remember, McD is a drummer!
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The title did nothing to recall creating this but the drum part recalls entering those super basic 16th note fills around the toms descending.
This was an attempt to get tight rhythm out of StaffPad brass. There are these brass notes that are artifices/bugs of the selected brass library. They don’t appear in the notated score but they did land on an up beat so I didn’t swap to another library or try a workaround.
“TV Dinner by the pool,
aren’t you glad you finished school?”
Frank Zappa
UPDATE: I figured out where the extra notes come from… it’s a notation issue.
Compare these 2 bars and see what’s missing from the 2nd bar that generates an extra sounding note on the 1/2 of 4:
It would be interesting to look at the raw MIDI data to see how StaffPad interpreted it. The tie indicates that the note should be held, but the staccato mark contradicts that. I guess it depends on the order that the data is interpreted. What takes precedence, the tie or the dot?
I liked the melody timing of this piece. By itself, it's totally confusing. But the rhythmic background keeps it together. Sort of like "Another One Bites The Dust" by Queen. Deacon's bass line only works with the steady drumming behind it. Second nature for a drummer, but confusing for a non-musician.
My favorite example of “where’s the one” is Cream’s “Sunshine of Your Love” because I’m always assuming the snare is a backbeat but the engineer Tom Dowd suggested that Ginger Baker play the accented snare hits on 1 and 3. There are very few instances of this rock drum pattern… of course you can learn the song assuming the drums are hitting 2 and four but the guitar riff becomes harder and many bands didn’t have the clue where one was. It made for some different garage band versions where the ONE may not be agreed by all players… mayhem follows when the solos start.
The final eight note gets “played” when it does NOT have a staccato on it. The tie is used to satisfy requirements of 4/4 time. The best way to notate would be to use an 8th rest to avoid any confusion.
I know the staccato is defined as reducing the duration by 1/2 technically but everyone just plays a short note and they are usually only applied to relatively short notes so a 16th tied to an eight should technically be played as 1 and 1/2 16ths. Better to use a rest and get the 32nd note I intended.
Funny that typing a dotted 16th to a dotted 8th got me my intended result.
You might consider documenting a few Tips and Tricks for StaffPad users. For most of my life I only knew of conventional notation. I was pretty good at sight reading. Mrs. Jacklin taught me well. When I started playing in “rock” bands, that skill became less important. Actually, it pissed off some “musicians”. Many years ago, I brought in a chart to show some guys I played with. They said “let’s just jam”. They thought I was being some sort of dictator. That was the last time I ever tried that with a rock band.
I think I like using the piano roll editor now. There are no “keys”, no rests, no accidentals, no Italian performance notes. I only need note on/off and velocity. I can actually do without velocity. I just paste that data into another track and set the fader for the level I want. My Cubasis projects often look like a crossword puzzle.
If I ever get “discovered”, I would be thrilled to give the musicians a proper score! I won’t hold my breath, though. In the meantime, I am enjoying sitting on my patio, poking away at my iPad, creating something that resembles music. Chatting with you and a few of the other usual suspects makes this a fun, relaxing, and personally rewarding pastime. I just wish these Cicadas would go away. They’re everywhere!
I gave up on music for compensation and recognition in 1980 when I re-enrolled in college for a 3rd degree in Engineering. It made all the difference raising a family and gave me the income to go crazy buying gear at one point when I hit a payday with Stock options.
Enjoying the making and forgetting about fame is the best path, IMHO. Any musical success would have led to an early grave.