05 Apr 13, 01:26AM
"Music is sound art with rules"
albeit i do agree with that statement, I don't thinks its so clearly defined as # of bars/BPM. Had Max Roach been like "swing drumming only works at 160 BPM" then a whole branch of jazz just simply would not exist. Bop is a different genre within jazz naturally, but for many reasons other than simply BPM. Not to say that this is a counter-argument to why dubstep should not be that way, it merely strikes me as odd. And btw, 16 bars of what? functional harmony? always sounds like nonsense to me, minus an overly obvious tonal center. Maybe this is why i shouldn't listen to house/dubstep. Or am i missing the stravinsky of these genres?
albeit i do agree with that statement, I don't thinks its so clearly defined as # of bars/BPM. Had Max Roach been like "swing drumming only works at 160 BPM" then a whole branch of jazz just simply would not exist. Bop is a different genre within jazz naturally, but for many reasons other than simply BPM. Not to say that this is a counter-argument to why dubstep should not be that way, it merely strikes me as odd. And btw, 16 bars of what? functional harmony? always sounds like nonsense to me, minus an overly obvious tonal center. Maybe this is why i shouldn't listen to house/dubstep. Or am i missing the stravinsky of these genres?