Erik Gaderlund (erikg@macconnect.com)
Wed, 8 Dec 1999 14:47:07 -0800
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>dear list: Hey Black people(scott joplin)invented ragtime but thats not who
>listens to it. ;)
> My point is that the writer said that r and b is inbred and
>needs to embrace these other black created musics like 4-hero and duane
>atkins techno. Im saying A )r and b is fairly good today. B) "The brothers
>dont be checkin for 4 hero at the rekkid sto" (joking) . r AND B see
>CELLI's "CAUGHT OUT THERE" . i like the melodies that Destiny's Child ..
>this stuff is good and yes its done under certain constraints of tempo .
>Techno is also rigid as in 4 /4 bangng away. Jungle is ... something else.
>The article did give props to Timbaland for his mainstreaming of jungle. I
>just was sticking up for R and B.
>
And, R&B isn't 4/4? There are few musical styles that actually try
different time signatures, Dave Brubeck's "Time Out" being a forerunner,
but, some of the Slavic Folk tunes are quite strange (5/8 and such), not to
mention the 3/4 of walze (sp?). Its the different patterns of beats in
Techno and Jungle/d'n'b that give them their respective character, and they
may work with R&B, but, I do agree that its not strictly R&B, without the
slow grove.
erik g
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