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Author: cbit on March 18 2007 Viewed 3768 times. 14 people liked this blog. You can rate it below if you haven't already.
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I'm fiddling around with the mpd24 and i was looking for starting reference point for established fingerings/patterns i could practice (because i could make something up of my own, but i didn't want to learn/bark myself into/up a blind alley/dead tree/wrong end).
So i was watching the aswell mpc finger drumming clip on youtube. It's the best one i've found for trying to get a handle on exactly whats happening. Of course, being on youtube the synchronisation is all out of whack, which makes it very tricky to study.
So i did a grab of the video using a os x screenrecorder soft called iShowU (a name i can't help but imagine being spoken in a thick japanese accent) link imported it into Live, rerecorded the audio and aligned it properly with the visuals.
Being able to see what was going on (most of it anyway) I made a diagram of the beat he plays in the first part of the vid (not all sounds included, just the basics). Posting it here in case its useful for anyone else too.
Here's the youtube beatz:
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And here''s the diagram:
link
(read left to right, each frame represents 1/16th)
Edit: a practice vid of the basic pattern - link
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03/18/07
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cbit
teh video link not doing it!
these days you have to tiby-urls ise video urls in order to link to them.. firefox has a tiny url extension that'd handy: link
03/19/07
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zfigz
I wish I was a better finger drummer.
Please, someone disable pawel's account.
03/19/07
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TecknoMan
Let's try to keep it on topic.
This is a useful thread on technique, not any kind of clique-thing.
03/19/07
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prugelknaben
blæh. teh internets downt woant me.
03/19/07
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cbit
(incase anyone missed it: the greasemonkey 'ignore em411 user' script for firefox : link )
03/19/07
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prugelknaben
KEKEKEKEKEKE how did i miss gre3asmonkey? pawel is gone, ha hah ah
03/19/07
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jogn
Hey just want to ask about the aswell finger drumming. Does the mpc auto quantise whatever he's playing or is he doing it strictly free?
03/19/07
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cbit
jogn: i don't think it's quantized, because during the second 'part' the timing doesn't stay completely tight (though i guess that could be due to the video encoding maybe? i don't know)
03/19/07
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skab
i think mpcs have a hard quantize at about 1/320. which explains why hiphop beats are soooo groovy. the resolution of the average DAW is much higher though. one thing i like about playing live with ableton is using the pads on my trigger finger to trigger one note midi clips which are routed into the impulse. the bottom 8 pads are notes which have the groove set to straight and the top eight are mapped to the same sounds as the bottom but with the groove set to swing 16 or swing 32. one of the faders on the trigger finger is assigned to the groove amount and, as long as all the other audio clips in the live set are set to straight, it's possible for me to look like i'm a dope-ass finger drummer. which in fact, i'm not 
edited: Mar 19 2007
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cbit
smart trick skab!
teh finger drumming is going well, much faster progress than i had expected - which makes it a lot of fun to keep practicing.
i've been repeating the basic version of that aswell pattern for maybe four or five hours in total and now i can (usually ) do it without fumbling it up. Now i need to get the timing tighter, so i'll play along to some little loops. but my wrist is beginning to ache, time for break..
03/19/07
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prugelknaben
just read the headline again.
who is this MPC that is fingering diagram?
03/19/07
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cbit
haha i guess that was inevitable ;)
03/19/07
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mlbot
[removes lab coat]
here you go Dr Cbit
[gives lab coat to cbit]
good luck in your nerdly studies.
03/20/07
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jogn
You know, if you got more finger drumming diagrams, i'd be most appreciative !
03/20/07
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cbit
jogn: if you find any other good clear vids of finger drumming like the aswell one plese post back and i might have a go..
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