Learning to DJ (w/ the 3345 Team)
Starting to mix : finding cue points : beats
A beat is the shortest repetition in dance music and is the
most helpful piece of information when synchronizing tracks.
Beats are usually regular in a 4/4 structure. Dance music such
as House, Progressive and Trance tends to have regular beats.
Sometimes however, some tracks are created in breakbeat-style,
which simply means that the beats are not sounding at equal
timings, but rather, in a pre-determined pattern that still
tends to repeat itself every 4 beats.
For example a 3/4 breakbeat would simply mean, that every
'bar' (4 beats) only 3 of these sound and they can be arranged
randomly. E.g. beat 1 sounds, then a 1 beat break, then beats
2 & 3 sound on the 3rd beat and beat 4 is a break. Patterns
vary widely, so don't take this as anything but a simple example.
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