Lil John “Get Low” Beatgridding IMPOSSIBLE
I swear, I’ve been sitting here for an hour trying to grid this properly and can’t do it for the life of me…
Anyone else grid this track in traktor? It’s killing me…
I’ll be honest, havn’t heard that song in ages, but from what I remember, it should be pretty straightforward? From memory, I’m thinking its about 100 bpm? and it doesnt
it should be as simple as dropping a grid marker on beat one of a measure, which is the first BWuh in the pattern (bwuh bwuh, bwuh, bwuh bwuh… lol hehe)
but you might have a bad vinyl rip maybe? if that song was even released on vinyl?
just line up the claps, the song has claps throughout its entirety on beats 2 and 4.
Yup as long as its not off vinyl it should be reasonably straightforward, as sine says. from my boy racer days cough that particular track is pretty much breakeatish so use the snares as reference dude. drop a grid on the first one and use tap to get the bpm if you are having trouble, then just follow the track through and adjust it as ya go.
I have it down as 100.980 bpm, with the beatgrid on the first kick.
Warp it in Ableton, grid it in Traktor
Why not just don’t stress over it and beatmatch it by ear? Or warp it in ableton…
Or get a different version of the .mp3. It can’t be that hard.
Try Boys Noize - Oh! (A-Trak remix) .. drives me nuts trying to warp it
Haha I hate that remix, I prefer the original or Danger remix, I never had a problem with it auto gridded though.
Well, I should probably mention that Its from iTunes so I don’t think it’s a bad rip, but what keeps happening is that I’ll get the first 4 beats grided just fine and then my grid will just keep getting more and more off as the song progresses, it’s almost like trying to grid a track with a human drummer that doesn’t always have the same amount of time in between hits drum hits, I can’t figured out why the track is acting this way…
i mean… that kinda just sounds like you have the wrong tempo…
alright I’ll be honest, I straight up just downloaded a shitty quality version of this song. I find the temp of 101.4 to be best, however, with my version, at about 4:30, it gets a bit off, and stays at that constant amount throughout, so, lay down another grid point on the bass kick.
beatgrid it from the clap/snare instead of the kick. The clap/snare will be perfect 4/4 but im PRETTY sure the kicks have a slight swing which would cause the gridding to be off…
Yeah, its straightforward from that standpoint, but the song is just warped, as in they spat it out that way from the production side of things. With about 1 minute left, they add about 1/5 of a beat to it, so you are just going to have to set another grid marker.
thanks for the help guys, will definitely be tackling this tonight!
Just warp in ableton.