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Stage 2 Counting Music Course 4 of 4

Counting the Awkward Genres

Intermediate 8 lessons · 59 min

Four-four house is the easy case. Drum and bass moves too fast to count the obvious way, hip hop is rarely at a convenient tempo, and plenty of records simply do not match. Several approaches to the genres that defeat the standard counting lesson.

By the end of this course you will be able to

  • Count drum and bass without losing the bar
  • Mix hip hop tracks that are not at the same tempo
  • Mix two tracks whose BPMs are a long way apart
  • Fall back on a beat grid when the ear is not enough - and know its limits

Lessons

  1. Mixing tracks with different BPMs

    6:33

  2. Finding the timing and counting bars in drum and bass

    19:30

  3. Counting drum and bass

    7:43

  4. Counting the bars and phrases in drum and bass

    8:51

  5. Another way to count drum and bass

    8:06

  6. Hip hop tracks that are not at the same BPM

    3:53

  7. Setting a beat grid, and using sync honestly

    Optional 1:42

  8. Getting an exact one-bar loop

    Optional 2:19

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