Thought this might deserve it's own thread.
Some artists can pull of amazing grooves without the 2,4 snare. On the other hand people can create amazing grooves with them as well.
For me the snare on two and four seems to glue a lot of songd together. It gets lame if it is a plain dry snare or clap but just having something there that resembles the snare or clap or distorted or stacked ones still appeal to me.
I think maybe it is something that breaks the 4/4 up in a sense. To me sometimes music without a snare can seem very monotonous unless it has some really amazing patterns. It can just sound very flat with kick kick kick kick kick......... but having kick snare kick snare seems to break that rhythm up to me kinda giving t an up down up down feeling unstead of a flat one.
Not saying that it is necessary for a good groove but unless you have an insane amount of time on your hands and dont mind working on one track forever I prefer a 2/4 snare as a groove element.
to clap/snare, or not to clap/snare?
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Re: to clap/snare, or not to clap/snare?
i can do bothvictorgonzales wrote:Some artists can pull of amazing grooves without the 2,4 snare. On the other hand people can create amazing grooves with them as well.
your also got that reggae thing with rhythm guitar on the 2 and 4. so every other dub techno track has that too.
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