Techniques that everyone loves but meh you out?

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#145

drummer here.
i usually don’t care about tuning the drum sounds, but toms are the notable exception.
tom grooves work much better when toms are in scale.

another notable exception is 808 kick. sometimes you definitely don’t want it to be in dissonant interval to bass.

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#146

Oh man. Goosebumps again :smiley: I had this album on play-repeat for some time.
Techniques schmechtiques :blush: Sam is great storyteller and never fails to bring emotions into his productions.

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#147

I really really don’t like modern drum and bass drums, where everyone seems to use the same 2-3 snares along with extremely de-emphasised percussion. Just punchy kick and punchy snare. Sometimes literally a 4x4 pattern but alternating kick and snare too.

The hell happened to those awesome syncopated drum beats and sampled breaks?

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#148

Oh man, this was the worst in the 2000’s.

I see where you’re getting at. If you’re writing weird suspended and diminished chords, you might need a safe chord here and there. But yes, seventh is just a “bigger third”, definitely gets the same thing across if it’s all over.

Good one, nobody cared about this back in the day.

Big Watts fan but yeah… Can’t stand it.

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#149

I’d like to see someone write and post a song now that omits every technique listed on this thread

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#150

Drum and bass has really taken a hit from the overproduction craze…

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#151

Whoever smelt it, dealt it.

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#152

I’ll agree, but give Ceephax Acid Crew an exception. His key changes are amazing.

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#153

even in diminished? ))

#154

It’s overproduction, and it also goes hand in hand with the homogenisation of a lot of mainstream dance music.

I blame the audience on that one. I used to think it was just lazyness on the part of the producers, but Ive since spoken to someone who actually is a producer and DJ for a living. He’s told me he’s essentially forced to move with the genre, despite not liking its direction, because if he doesn’t he won’t get booked and he’s got bills to pay.

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#155

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#156

trap beats
one of the worst things that happened to hip hop. I love the sound of the TR-808, but please, not in this way

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#157

Sequencers. Especially sequenced drums. Even the finger drumming against the table is better. Seriously.

#158

Yup :+1:

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#159

Can’t stand it.

#160

Hehe, that would be cool. Let’s go for it?

#161

Trap snares

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#162

303s. Can’t stand them. Squelchy nonsense.

Anyway, challenge time! (Piggybacking off @Martebar):

Who can write a 3-5 minute track with as many of these most hated things as possible? :grinning:

(Be careful, you might end up with a number 1 on five continents and forever be known for it)

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#163

Burn the witch! :laughing:

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#164

How about this:

Overcompressed track using only amen breaks (Yes, also for melodic content unless it’s not arpeggio in pentatonic scale). Allowed fx: Shimmer reverb and stutter.

I bet this exists somewhere already :slight_smile:

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