![]() ![]() Here’s Get Down by Todd Terry All Stars (Kenny Dope Original Mix): Now that you know what bars and phrases are, let’s take a typical house tune and break it down into parts. Here’s a typical verse that’s two 8-bar phrases long (starts between 00:04 and 00:05, ends at 00:35): Ĭan you hear the notable changes taking place in the music at the beginning of each 8-bar phrase? At 00:05, Su’Su Bobien starts singing between 00:19 and 00:20, the piano kicks in at 00:35, the chorus begins. Thus all major changes in the music take place at regular intervals that normally equal to one or two 8-bar chunks. Phrases are important because all parts of a track (intro, verse, chorus and so on) consist of an even number of 4-bar phrases. Here’s a 4-bar phrase from that same track’s intro, with a couple of seconds before and after it (the phrase itself starts between 00:01 and 00:02 and ends at 00:09): A 4-bar phrase has 16 beats (4 x 4) and an 8-bar one has 32 (4 x 8). ![]() The bars are in turn grouped into 4- and 8-bar chunks called phrases. Here’s the very first bar of one of my favorite tunes: In short, whereas the waltz is “one, two, three one, two, three…,” house and other club music styles are “one, two, three, four one, two, three, four…” The first beat of every bar is usually stressed to make it more distinguishable from the other three. Every dance tune has kick drum beats, which define its rhythm: “boom, boom, boom, boom.” The beats come in groups of four that are called bars. Knowing this pattern will allow you to tell where the music is heading and to manipulate it accordingly. Fortunately, as if to make the DJ’s life easier, most records follow pretty much the same pattern. To mix well, you’ll need to become very familiar with the structure of a typical dance track.
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