The musical “form” of a “song”. Names exist for popular forms such as “12-bar blues”, “16-bar tune” and “32-bar A1A2”. More complex forms often do not have names and need to be described, identifying their section lengths and types.
I have long believed it has to be the very first thing to get right and there's little point playing notes at all unless they are in the desired rhythm and feel. Tempo, however, is a whole other subject - there's a lot to be said for precision and ev
All Musicians! New Musicians; Experienced Musicians; Great Musicians;
Really, any musician including Pianists, Guitarists, Horn Players, Singers and even Drummers.
The tracks can be used for practice, jamming, gigging and cutting a release.
They cover a wide selection of musical genres with thousands of rhythms available.
They are best for musicians who play songs or 'numbers' and wish to have an inspiring rhythmic accompaniment that fits the song they are playing, both rhythmically and in the musical form.
They are particularly useful for music teachers and students</str
Song form is the concept that every song has been composed around a musical form or structure. Popular song often chooses simple forms as a basis but forms can be more complex as well.
A good reference on song form (structure) is the Wikipedia article, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song_structure
Alive Drumming aims to provide you with the easiest and most reliable methods to select or describe song form.
Song Form may be selected using either (i) traditional names such as ’16
We support all the popular, essential song forms by name - 12 bar blues, 16 bar tunes, 32-bar A1A2 and 32-bar AABA, and about 30 other less common also by name. The list is increasing! We also support identifying these same song forms using stick notation. This simply specifies section lengths in bars, for example, '8|8/8|8', where 'bridge' sections are preceded by a '/' instead of '|'.
Additionally, we support user-defined song forms using stick notation, repeats, and concatenation of up to four (4) parts</
These Song Rhythm Tracks do sound totally great, don’t they?
This is one of the most frequent things I hear. The great sound quality often comes as surprise, perhaps because of the widespread familiarity everybody has with 'Midi Drum Machines', which don't satisfy in the same way as Song Rhythm Tracks. Midi Drum Machines and Song Rhythm Tracks are two very different products; we summarize their differences below.
Song Forms for a number of songs are here
Musicianship, Song Rhythm Tracks, SongForm, Website
We have hand-picked some of our favourite F.A.Q.s about Alive Drumming and Song Rhythm Tracks.
They do, don’t they! And for a number of reasons:
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Song form is the concept that every song has been composed around a musical form or structure. Popular song often chooses simple forms as a basis but forms can be more complex as well.
A good reference on song form (structure) is the Wikipedia article, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song_structure
Alive Drumming aims to provide you with the easiest and most reliable methods to select or describe song form.
Song Form may be selected using either (i) traditional names such as ’16
I have long believed it has to be the very first thing to get right and there's little point playing notes at all unless they are in the desired rhythm and feel. Tempo, however, is a whole other subject - there's a lot to be said for precision and ev
Song Forms for a number of songs are here
Musicianship, Song Rhythm Tracks, SongForm, Website
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