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I am charting a song that uses shakers and kicks for 8 measures. The shakers are played on the 1/16’s and after the 8 measures the hi-hat is played on the 1/16’s. How or would a C3 author chart the shaker? If it helps the song is Amen by Kid Rock and the shakers start at the 50 second mark.
I’m not listening to the song because I want to give a general advice. First, pksage will chime in yelling “YOU DON’T AUTHOR SHAKER EVERPERIODSHUTUP”, but I disagree.
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1) This is the reasoning that should go into any different sounding part of the kit or percussion: make sure 2 different sounding percussion parts are never authored with the same gem when they’re consecutive. If you a stream of 1/8ths cowbells followed by a series of 1/8ths toms (both are Bt in game), change at least the pro marker, if not the colour. That’s because, and this goes for anything that can be covered by this reasoning, you don’t want the player to experience a disconnect. I play a part in the song, the part in the song changes, I need to play a different thing, otherwise I experience a disconnect between what I hear and what I play. There are exceptions, because sometimes you have no options and sometimes you just can’t reassign things like the snare (in example when you have the hi hat going and a rim shot sequence goes into a snare hits sequence), but use this as a general rule and you’ll be good.
2) Author percussion sounds (tambourine, shaker, xilophone, etc.) when it makes sense. In example, does the shaker go right into the song where the hi hat starts doing the exact thing? Don’t author it, you just won’t make the player feel like they started playing the drum kit. Sometimes you have songs where tambourine and hi hat are not THAT separated (we usually have no multitracks) and maybe in those songs you have a 1/8th beat that for choruses or verses sounds like a 1/16ths beat because the tambourine kicks in. Now, if you have multitracks it’s different (That’s What You Get was a prime example: people complained at the time because it sounded like a two handed beat wasn’t authored, but it was in fact the tambourine), but if you don’t, and if you want to represent that change in rhythm, go for it.
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