IHR Episode #55 (Enhanced) – ReWire, Time Signatures, IHR TV (2008_03_02)
March 2nd, 2008 by Derek
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Paul’s back from vacation. We extend our listener’s choice remix winner deadline one more time, talk about time signatures and ReWire, and announce InsideHomeRecording.tv.
If you can play Enhanced podcasts (AAC enhanced) on your iPod, PlayStation Portable, Apple TV, Xbox 360, TiVo, or Zune, or in iTunes or QuickTime, you’ll find lots of photos and links accompanying this episode.
- 00:00 INTROS
- 00:45 THANKS TO: GoToMeeting, Source Elements, zZounds, Amazon, and Home Recording Network and Blubrry.com podcast networks
- 02:00 Happy 40th birthday to Paul, now back from his cruise
- 05:40 Derek finally played his first gig as drummer for the Neurotics since before his cancer surgery seven months ago
- 06:20 Derek’s album is now available at the Amazon MP3 Store, but for some reason it’s tagged as “explicit,” even though it’s instrumental
- 07:28 DEADLINE EXTENDED for the Boris Aeven remix contest listener’s choice category. Send the name of your favourite remix from the list to contests {at} insidehomerecording {dot} com by SATURDAY, MARCH 15. The winner will receive a G2.1u guitar effects pedal courtesy of Zoom.
- 08:40 We’re talking about electronic drums and headphones on The Lab With Leo TV show again soon
- 10:30 Paul’s GarageBand ’08 instructional videos are online at macProVideo.com (our new sponsor for IHR TV!), now split into Core and Effects components
- 11:55 Paul is also writing articles for Future Music magazine in the U.K.
- 13:45 SPONSOR: GoToMeeting.com (online meetings made easy with GoToMeeting: try it free for 45 days)
- 14:47 IHR 101 (Derek): Time signatures. Discuss the topic in the IHR forums. Featured artists include:
- The Andrews Sisters, Chuck Berry, Oscar Peterson, and Good Charlotte (4/4 time)
- John Philip Sousa (2/4 march time)
- Alicia Keys and Jimi Hendrix (3/4 time)
- The Beatles’ “I’ll Be Back” in 3/4
and 4/4
- Dave Brubeck (5/4 time) – another example is the Mission: Impossible theme
- Midnight Oil
- The Police and Pink Floyd (7/8 and 7/4 time) – the verse of the Beatles’ “All You Need is Love
- The Beatles’ “Happiness is a Warm Gun
- Genesis (13/8, or 6/8 + 7/8)
- Led Zeppelin (15/8, or three 4/4 + one 3/4)
- OutKast (11/4, or 22/8, or four 4/4 + one 2/4 + two 4/4)
- 25:38 REWIRE (Paul): Connecting software together using Propellerheads’ ReWire “invisible virtual cable” technology
- 29:30 Paul will be showing lots more about ReWire at InsideHomeRecording.tv, our upcoming new video podcast
- 29:42 PC TIPS (guest Dave Chick from Toronto): Repurposing an old computer as a slave soft synth and plugin machine in the studio, using tools like Bidule from Plogue, Console, and Forte from BrainSpawn, as well as FX Teleport from FX-max
- 36:07 EDITORIAL: Our new InsideHomeRecording.tv (IHR TV) short-episode video podcast, sponsored by macProVideo.com, which we’re launching soon
- 39:50 We’re going to emphasize instructional stuff more than reviews
- 42:44 END
Credits
Sounds: Our theme music, “Acidic Bond,” is by Steven Dennis in Louisiana, U.S.A., and our voiceovers are by Steve Herringer in Vancouver.
Pictures: The Home Recording Network “lava lamp” logo is based on an image by und_dann. Photo portraits of Paul and Derek are by Kris Krug. Other photos in this episode are courtesy of jzakariya, takacsi75, confetta, and mmewuji.
Listeners: Please comment on the blog at insidehomerecording.com and head over to the the forums at insidehomerecording.com/forums. Also remember that you can post your photos to the IHR Flickr Group — joining Flickr to share photos is free.
This podcast is (c) 2008 by Inside Home Recording under a Creative Commons license creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/ca
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7 Comments Add your own
1. Caleb Hawkins&hellip | March 3rd, 2008 at 6:39 am
I really enjoyed this show, the segment about tempo really helped me understand some things better, and caused a look at my own tempo styles, now if my rhythm was just a little better….
2. Derek&hellip | March 3rd, 2008 at 12:05 pm
It was lots of fun for me to be able to play those parts on some MIDI drums. I have to say that the MIDI drum instruments in GarageBand (which you heard) are WAY better sounding than the stock sounds inside the module for the Yamaha DTXpress III drums I was using. (You can see them in the photo accompanying these shownotes.)
3. Carlos Madrigal&hellip | March 5th, 2008 at 11:50 am
Hola. The mexican music is folk music, old “ranchera” songs. That song is called “Allá en el rancho grande” that translates to something like “There in the big ranch”.
Thanks for producing these podcasts. I learned a lot from you guys and I admire your enthusiasm. I also have an Zoom H4 but I never thought of carrying it to record folk music… nice idea.
Saludos de un mexicano que los escucha.
4. Chuck&hellip | March 6th, 2008 at 11:41 pm
From what I’ve read about Take Five, each of the different instruments plays a different time signature. The drums are 5/4. Wikipedia used to have a very good article on this, but it seems to have gone the way of web ephemera…
5. Hens Zimmerman&hellip | March 10th, 2008 at 2:38 am
Excellent show! Lots of fun to listen to. Looking forward to IHR tv.
6. Derek&hellip | March 10th, 2008 at 8:23 am
There’s a good analysis of the rhythm of “Take Five” here (part of a longer set of pages about the song), but I don’t hear or notice anything other than a 5/4 rhythm in the piece myself.
7. Cmonkey&hellip | April 4th, 2008 at 9:10 am
Just wanted to say thanks for putting the podcasts together, I really enjoy them.
I’m a bit behind but wanted to clarify one thing: 3/4 is not waltz time, 6/8 is. The difference being that 6/8 splits into 2 groups of 3 (1, 2, 3, – 2, 2, 3) and the triplets are triplet eighth notes within the major beat structure of 1-2, as opposed to three quarter notes.
Waltz time sounds more normal than 3/4, which is 3 beats straight beats and doesn’t sound like a waltz at all. The best example I can think of in 3/4 is Devo’s Whip It, after the “I say Whip It, Whip it Good” bit in the middle, there’s 8 bars of instrumental in 3/4, which are also repeated at the very end. Another example is in the Toadies’ song Possum Kingdom: the “give it up to me” section in the bridge is in 3/4.
If you’re writing a piece of music, you can create a waltz by setting the staff to 3/4 or 6/8, since they reduce to the same fraction, but 6/8 is more tailor-made for waltz.
Also,just wanted to add…the Mission Impossible theme song is in 5/4 too…good times!
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