I have watched and commented on ALL the festivids (well, I think? there are a lot of them and I still have to go back through the list and make sure I didn't miss any, and also when I have a good internet moment approach the download only vids, because I skipped those on account of bandwidth). I was gonna put together a rec list, but it would have been three pages long, so instead I implore you to go poke around the list and watch things, because there are some amazing things.
But anyway, watching vids makes me want to talk about vids, but also there is a particular confusing thing for me when I'm talking to other vidders about working with the beat that I would kinda like to explore more in depth. Or, rather, I understand what they are talking about, but the vocabulary ends up confusing me because of my history with learning how to time, and I am always looking to understand things better.
Let us go back in time for a moment, to that hazy past in which I was constantly cutting on a silent oboe in my drafts and my betas despaired of my complete lack of understanding of musical structure. Good times. But anyway, probably the most useful thing to happen to me in that time of attempting to understand was that time![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
heresluck sat down with me in a hotel room and spent several hours teaching me how to find the bassline (and, um, what a bassline even *was*). Because the thing I took away from that was that drummers gotta drum, and guitarists gotta slide, and singers gotta wail, but most (though not all) of the time your bassist is a soothing, reliable line of calming sanity and structure grooving along underneath it all and keeping everything from flying apart.
So, basically...although I do sometimes rely on the backbeat, for the most part when I'm in the process of marking out the beat in my song (and determining the math for keeping it through confusing bits), it is your friendly neighborhood bass line I turn to. And. So, I do not know if I am doing it wrong, or talking about something completely different, or just using vastly less complex music? But when people talk about the beat or even the tempo 'changing' in a song...this...almost never happens to me? Like, the music may feel faster or slower depending on what the instrumentation and vocals are doing and that has a lot of influence on the lengths of clips I use or the motion in them. But what I think of as 'the beat' rarely, rarely changes. If it is 21 frames over here, it is 21 frames over there, regardless of whether or not the drummer is suddenly channeling Animal or the singer decides to go super quiet and croon out a note that goes on forever. There have been times where the tempo has changed, but I find I'm always kinda surprised when it does, because the vast majority of the time even when it sounds on first listen like it does...it...doesn't?
And I really don't know if that's because I'm doing it wrong (though the method seems to be working for me since I implemented it so even if it is wrong, I'm not sure I care), or because I'm just using way less complex music, or because my definition of 'a beat' is some bizarre thing I made up in my head because I was confused. I suspect that last is probably the reality of the situation.
But anyway, watching vids makes me want to talk about vids, but also there is a particular confusing thing for me when I'm talking to other vidders about working with the beat that I would kinda like to explore more in depth. Or, rather, I understand what they are talking about, but the vocabulary ends up confusing me because of my history with learning how to time, and I am always looking to understand things better.
Let us go back in time for a moment, to that hazy past in which I was constantly cutting on a silent oboe in my drafts and my betas despaired of my complete lack of understanding of musical structure. Good times. But anyway, probably the most useful thing to happen to me in that time of attempting to understand was that time
heresluck sat down with me in a hotel room and spent several hours teaching me how to find the bassline (and, um, what a bassline even *was*). Because the thing I took away from that was that drummers gotta drum, and guitarists gotta slide, and singers gotta wail, but most (though not all) of the time your bassist is a soothing, reliable line of calming sanity and structure grooving along underneath it all and keeping everything from flying apart. So, basically...although I do sometimes rely on the backbeat, for the most part when I'm in the process of marking out the beat in my song (and determining the math for keeping it through confusing bits), it is your friendly neighborhood bass line I turn to. And. So, I do not know if I am doing it wrong, or talking about something completely different, or just using vastly less complex music? But when people talk about the beat or even the tempo 'changing' in a song...this...almost never happens to me? Like, the music may feel faster or slower depending on what the instrumentation and vocals are doing and that has a lot of influence on the lengths of clips I use or the motion in them. But what I think of as 'the beat' rarely, rarely changes. If it is 21 frames over here, it is 21 frames over there, regardless of whether or not the drummer is suddenly channeling Animal or the singer decides to go super quiet and croon out a note that goes on forever. There have been times where the tempo has changed, but I find I'm always kinda surprised when it does, because the vast majority of the time even when it sounds on first listen like it does...it...doesn't?
And I really don't know if that's because I'm doing it wrong (though the method seems to be working for me since I implemented it so even if it is wrong, I'm not sure I care), or because I'm just using way less complex music, or because my definition of 'a beat' is some bizarre thing I made up in my head because I was confused. I suspect that last is probably the reality of the situation.
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