Re: Tempo (Re: Drum MACHINES)

[bill bigrig <billbigrig@yahoo.com>]

Howdy,

 i do believe that 120 BPM was the  average tempo of
pop songs in the days that drum machines first
appeared
Rig


--- Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 26 sep 2007, at 18.13, David Auker wrote:
> 
> > How about tempo?  Seems a default tempo on
> sequencers/metronomes is  
> > 100-120 bpm.  Does this have some correlation to
> the human pulse or  
> > something?
> 
> 
> Not mine, that's for sure ;-)  I like lower tempi,
> as 60-90 bpm, so  
> that you may also play in "double tempo". This is
> the dub and drum-n- 
> bass idiom.
> 
> Greetings from Sweden
> 
> Per Boysen
> www.boysen.se (Swedish)
> www.looproom.com (international)
> 
> 
> 
> 



      
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