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Beat it!: Program Your Own Drum and Percussion Patterns
* With free MIDI files disk * Covers a wide range of musical styles * Rock , RnB, Jazz, World rhythms, Funk , Dance * Program your own realistic drum and percussion patterns * From one of the UK's top MIDI programming teams This book will help you to program your own realistic drum and percussion patterns. Not only can you read about a pattern, or see it in a grid - but using the MIDI files on accompanying disk - you can hear what it sounds like as well. If you use a MIDI and know how to access it's edit facilities, you can gain even more about phrasing and dynamics. This book and the files on disk are loosely grouped into styles like 50s and 60s, Pop, Soul and Dance, Rock and R&B, and Jazz and World Rhythms, which include patterns like Reggae, Soca, Calypso and Latin. These styles are worth studying as they continue to influence mainstream Rock, Soul, Dance and other music in a big way. You can also use the files to rehearse or jam along to or to incorporate into your own demo songs or ideas.
160 pages, Paperback
Published October 1, 1996
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