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Post by herbalicious » Thu Jun 10, 2010 9:55 am

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I don't produce, but have always wondered how you producers choose your BPMs and why...Now, I'm not talking 130 for House, 135 for Garage and 140 for Dubstep etc.....I'm talking the 141's, the 139's out there....Tracks that are at (to me) obscure BPM rates...

In terms of production, why would someone have a track at 141 instead of 140? Surely that track can't sound wrong at 140, but right upped by 1 can it?

This isn't a whiney thread or anything like that...just (innocently) wondering what the (probably simple) answer is.

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Re: BPM

Post by SK3W3R » Thu Jun 10, 2010 10:25 am

i dont produce but i think everyone has their sweet spot bpm where it sounds right to them
i tend to mixmy dubstep at 146 , anything slower or faster doesnt feel right if you get what i mean
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Re: BPM

Post by DRTY » Thu Jun 10, 2010 10:26 am

I'm not producing but have knowledge of it.... you'd make a tune at whatever you want to make it, but whatever speed you make it at, that is the speed it will sound 'right' in, if you're mixing a track (djing) and using +/- pitch then the tune and tone of the track will be different.

When I mix I usually seem to be mixing with the pitch around +2 so If I were to start producing I'd be doing it at (I guess) 141/142

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Re: BPM

Post by j_one » Thu Jun 10, 2010 10:59 am

I'll quite often start at 140, do some drums then move the bpm about and sometimes you'll hit a sweet spot (and other times the difference is negligible). Recently I've been working more between 128-132 though, on a cotched vibe.

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Re: BPM

Post by herbalicious » Thu Jun 10, 2010 11:42 am

Cheers guys...this is really interesting to me, as pitching up a track by 1bpm is barely noticable (for me anyway). But, I suppose, when you've built the track you're focusing each individual section of it so closely, you'd be able to tell if something doesn't feel right?

I could start making music to experience this, but to be honest, it wouldn't matter if it were 140, 139 or 141, it'd still sound awful.
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Re: BPM

Post by faust.dtc » Thu Jun 10, 2010 11:54 am

Slight adjustments to tempo could also be dependant on the key or sample used and how the drums fit with it...perhaps?

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Re: BPM

Post by djelements » Thu Jun 10, 2010 11:58 am

faust.dtc wrote:Slight adjustments to tempo could also be dependant on the key or sample used and how the drums fit with it...perhaps?
This. One hundred times this.

I had a tune that sounded great at 123, and I tried bumping it up to 128, just to make things easier... Tune SUCKED. Granted, I now hate that tune, so whatever.
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Re: BPM

Post by faust.dtc » Thu Jun 10, 2010 12:01 pm

djelements wrote:
faust.dtc wrote:Slight adjustments to tempo could also be dependant on the key or sample used and how the drums fit with it...perhaps?
This. One hundred times this.

I had a tune that sounded great at 123, and I tried bumping it up to 128, just to make things easier... Tune SUCKED. Granted, I now hate that tune, so whatever.
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Anyways...yeah cant agree more, 'accidentally' made a tune at 126 once and got a real nice swing to it but decided to bump it up 10 BPM to help it fit in with the tempo of other dubstep tracks I have and it lost all its quality.

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Re: BPM

Post by helix » Thu Jun 10, 2010 12:03 pm

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Re: BPM

Post by Pedro Sánchez » Thu Jun 10, 2010 12:06 pm

it's about space really, the more percussion in a track, the more it has room to breathe at lower tempo's which is why 2step and funky work well between 132 - 136 it can swing and halfstep works better between 138 - 142, but the difference between 1bpm ain't gonna make a whole lot of difference for anything other than spot on beatmatching tempo for tempo.
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Re: BPM

Post by lloydnoise » Thu Jun 10, 2010 12:16 pm

1bpm definitely makes a difference, I've been making hippity hoppity music recently and a boost from 94 to 95bpm definitely changes the 'headnod' factor...
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Re: BPM

Post by Pedro Sánchez » Thu Jun 10, 2010 12:24 pm

lloydnoise wrote:1bpm definitely makes a difference, I've been making hippity hoppity music recently and a boost from 94 to 95bpm definitely changes the 'headnod' factor...
95bpmftw
It probably does around that tempo when I used to make bits of hip-hop the difference was noticeable but between 138 and 139 I don't find it much.
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Re: BPM

Post by WhosZena » Thu Jun 10, 2010 5:35 pm

I agree if your sampling something that can decide the BPM quite a bit.

I normally decide after ive wrote the melody because some patterns just feel too fast at 140 or occasionally too slow.

Another decider is the time signature, as that can change the beats per minute anyway.

But to tell the truth the BPM is the least of my concerns when im making a track.
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Re: BPM

Post by sirsnaf » Thu Jun 10, 2010 6:45 pm

lloydnoise wrote:1bpm definitely makes a difference, I've been making hippity hoppity music recently and a boost from 94 to 95bpm definitely changes the 'headnod' factor...
95bpmftw
you might be able to answer this then - why are there so many tracks produced at 92.5bpm.... is that 1/2 bpm so important? 92 doesnt cut it, but 93 is too much...

it could be that head-nod sweet-spot as you say, its such a common bpm that there must something mystical too it...

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Re: BPM

Post by Coppola » Thu Jun 10, 2010 7:05 pm

Correct me if I'm wrong but at 90bpm say, the difference between 90 and 91 is bigger than the difference between 140 and 141, so a half a bpm at lower speeds may be the same as 1 bpm at higher speeds.

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Re: BPM

Post by FSTZ » Thu Jun 10, 2010 7:28 pm

j-one wrote:I'll quite often start at 140, do some drums then move the bpm about and sometimes you'll hit a sweet spot
^^ that

my tunes that are at "obscure" bpm's are because they sound better, powerful, or more cohesive at those tempos

also...

a lot of producers let the samples dictate their tempo.. if they base the tune off of a sample that comes in at 137... they just make the tune at 137, etc...

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Re: BPM

Post by FSTZ » Thu Jun 10, 2010 7:30 pm

faust.dtc wrote:Did you use the wrong profile B?
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Re: BPM

Post by constrobuz » Thu Jun 10, 2010 7:35 pm

lol @ "obscure" bpms. dubstep has made people retarded.

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Re: BPM

Post by rubaduba » Thu Jun 10, 2010 7:51 pm

usually if im making dubstep i just scroll up/down to 140 and if i land on 141, then 141 it is! doesnt really matter tbh because whatever bpm it is you'll naturally make the track sound right for it.

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Re: BPM

Post by FSTZ » Thu Jun 10, 2010 8:00 pm

constrobuz wrote:lol @ "obscure" bpms. dubstep has made people retarded.
haha

I thought that too...

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