[sdiy] new tune

[Dave Krooshof]

>Hello,
>How do you define the difference between "sneak in" and "fade in"? I 
>am interested in this kind of music and people's comments on it. The 
>musical material is very brittle and does not ply easily; I 
>personally find the end of the 303 line abrupt. But how to avoid a 
>fade out? So are you suggesting that the sounds should be brought in 
>on off-beats - ie create a composition-based rather than 
>dynamics-based fade-in/out?
>Very interesting and very interested,
>Charles

The difference between fading something in and sneaking something in,
is a composition issue. Actually, there a roughly 3 approaches.
Say we are sitting at a mixer or a sequencing program with several layers
of loops at hand.

Option 1.
Open the channels aburptly one by one in a musical order.

Option 2.
Fade in the channels one by one. Smoother, yet more predictable, and
it will have it's times in which the mix is just not optimal yet.

Option 3.
sneaking things in: the introduction of channels is hidden underneath
other things, think of little rolls or breaks, or extra occasional sounds, or
whatever you you can come up with.

Option 4 (there are allways more options then I think).
The other layers make room for the new one in terms of eventfullness
and timbre/spectrum. (think of this: when the hihat comes in, the snare
stops playing ghostnotes and looses some top-high.)

Oh yeah, you could also have everything in from the beginning, but somehow
that doesn't seem to be an option. it probably isn't music enough.
On the opposit side of that lies the composition that make you
long so much for the extra layer, that it's arrival feels as a solvation.


definition enough? It's hard for me to define without already letting you know
what I think of it, tastewise.

Think of a drummer that starts off with a basic bass-snare groove. Then he
does this short, not too interuptive break, after which he plays something
that seems to be that exact same groove, yet he is using the hihat too now,
as well as an occasional accent on the tom and a hit on the floortom to
fatten the One.

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>
>>and characterful drone. So I'd sneak the new layers in, rather then 
>>kickstarting them.
>>Eventfullness should be in the most important layer.
>>All drums sound very vivid, and I'm glad you stayed out of the fade 
>>in fade out clichees.
>>(notice I did avoid saying "fade the drums in") and it's a 
>>consequent soundworld
>>that you made. Call it simplicity, I call it choice.

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