dubstep in 4/4
is that electro? im trying to explain something to a friend
Erm - no.
The majority of popular music is in 4/4 …
unless its got a latin polyrhythm which a lot of dance music does (And why some latin vibey tracks really piss you off when you try to use sync and stuff just refuses to line up)
Hence ‘the majority of popular music’
I really like Lack of Afro / Rejection in 6/8 Time as a track, but its too much of a pig to be arsed mixing into …
no what im talking about…dubstep is really like kick 1/3 type of thing (i know theres variations and such) but its majority of 2/2 or two step type of music…most house and such is in 4/4 being the kick on 1,2,3,4
im just wondering…if someone made dubstep just in 4/4 would that be electro or some variation of dubstep
i know what you mean.
kickdrum on the first and third beat, snares still on second and fourth beat of the measure.
i think it would fall under breaks. house has kickdrums on every beat.
yeh dubstep has a comparitively sparse drumbeat, I guess a more dense drumbeat at 140bpm would be breakstep or something.
breaks, jungle and dubstep are still 4/4 albeat syncopated and non standard. You can mix breaks with house, jungle with trance and dubstep with techno, although your experience may vary
I generally just clump everything in as electronic music. dub is just another sub-catagory of electro..
pretty much in my mind shit that is made with computers, analogue machines, synthesisers, etc, is electro.. shit that is made with instruments is probably not electro
“dub is just another sub-catagory of electro”
are you crazy?
skrillex stuff can be called that, but dubstep its self isnt.
not electro as in edm, as in it is just a form of electronic music. Why only skrillex’ stuff? because he makes some edm and some dub? or because his shit isn’t strictly 140?
I think now releases are pretty rare to be classed as dubstep in a strict sense anyway.. realistically dubstep now is worlds apart from the heavy reggae influenced stuff from early on..
depends on what you think electro is I guess. It is obviously it’s own genre, but for the op’s sake asking if it’s electronic music, i’d still say it is.. what else could it be?
some of skrillex stuff seems really electro influenced to me. thats all.
Dub is reggae, not dubstep. For fucks sake.
Electro is a genre, not an umbrella term for electronically produced music. The music for that batman film “dark knight” is electronically produced. Would you call it electro?
Dubstep is in 4/4 though the drums are not.
There’s plenty of dubstep that has been made with a 4/4 drumline. It’s not the normal but it certainly does exist.
I have a friend who created a track that he calls “electro step” it’s in 4/4. Sounds like dub step. listen here:
It sounds most like dubstep to me at 1:30.
Dubstep, and any other kind of music any of us are regularly DJing is in 4/4. Sorry to bust the bubble of anyone who thought “their” music was more intelligent because it wasn’t in 4/4.
It’s in 4/4.
There are a couple of common false assumptions that people regularly make. First, people think that 4/4 means “4 to the floor”, or that common 4 beat house feel. THIS IS FALSE. 4/4 can be syncopated and still be 4/4. I hear this most often from people who wouldn’t know a music theory book if one was lobbed at their heads. Second, I hear this from people who sit in front of step sequencers (and again don’t know anything about music theory) and string together ridiculous phrases made of measures all in different time signatures because they’re limited by their environment (or they’re engaged in a little musical masturbation). If you have a phrase that consists of 2 measures of 3/4 and 1 measure of 2/4, you’re kind of going around your ass to get to your elbow and should just have 2 measures of 4/4.
A time signature is meant to give an overall feel for the piece. If your piece is comprised of phrases that complete themselves in multiples of 4 beats, and has the feel of regular time (even if there isn’t explicitly a drumbeat on one or more of the regular time “beats”), then it’s probably in 4/4.
2step was the last genre that I remember (after drum and bass) where people SWORE it couldn’t be in 4/4 - mostly because it was typical for the 2step producer to only anchor the beat on the 3 or 4, but only having ONE beat anchored per measure. They would also switch around the anchor on the 4th measure in a phrase (or sometimes on the 2nd and 4th if higher energy was desired). But all of that stuff was in 4/4. Of course, you could be an asshole and write it switching up time signatures every measure, but that would be like someone writing a newspaper and not putting in any spaces or punctuation in the text. You could still read it, but it would be stupid.
There is PLENTY of music out there that isn’t in 4/4. But it’s not commonly heard from a DJ.
^word
This. Don’t confuse dub with dubstep.
not trying to sound like an ass here but what im talking about is from the OP is
take the kick/drum pattern from
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=house+music&aq=1
take everything else from
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=dubstep&aq=f
and u get = ???
thats what i was wondering about…i know dubstep is in 4/4 ive just never heard anyone try a house beat to a dubstep song
There’s a song that plays the first time we see Tim pull up in his red car, and steps out to ask about conti (lol). Does anyone know what song that is?! It’s definitely dubstep, but the e4 episode playlist doesn’t have it listed,
if i remember right this track is at 150 not 140.
i dont know how relevant it is to the discussion.