Percussion, bassline, Disco, Funk, Trance

[Gps]

While listening to some, I think disco, I started to wonder.

Is the bassline in Disco slower as in trance ? The bpm def is, ( with slower I mean using less notes in a measure)
The hi hats seems to me about the same 1010 ?

Jimmy Bo Horne - Spank, disco or funk or ... ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDElEIpa9Bg

Sharon Brown - I Specialize in Love, Disco ?
at 4.12 we can clearly hear a bassline.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6JAehiN2Y8

Eruption - I Can't Stand The Rain, Disco ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pDM1zm ... JAY3MNzQ9G

Gino Soccio - "Try It Out" 1981, Disco or funk ? ( I love this track )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gwi4oMBtyOw

[musikbear]

( with slower I mean using less notes in a measure)

No it is slower. Set your BPM in lmms on a slower value. You need to learn how to use the BPM counting tool from the 'resources'
http://www.all8.com/tools/bpm.htm
I did https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDElEIpa9Bg
And i get 117 BPM

You should never use fewer notes at high and wrong BPM
The 'rules' for the percussion is next to the same in any kind of rhythmic music, except disko uses much more clapping, because that was how the dancing audience 'participated' in the tracks, and the effect sounds are very different, and used different.

[Gps]

Thank you and when I try to make a cover I do use that tool.

I should prob try to make some disco in LMMS.

Eino ones said welcome to you're never ending journey of learning music.
It is still most shocking to me, how the way I hear music keeps changing.

I definitely want to make a bass line like Gino Soccio - "Try It Out" 1981

And more specific that off beat ? guitar. Its one of those things I love in music. This song has it but its one of many.

[brandystarbrite]

Thank you and when I try to make a cover I do use that tool.

I should prob try to make some disco in LMMS.

I might not be a fan of disco music, but if you make another disco track, we'll be sure to check it out.

Eino's saying is correct.
Even in my case, I learn new musical stuff almost everyday.
And as you yourself said, a few times on this forum, you start hearing and noticing things/details in
songs etc, that you didn't notice, or hear before.

I definitely want to make a bass line like Gino Soccio - "Try It Out" 1981

Cool song. I listened to it about twice.
That bassline sound, sounds like a Tuba. He! He!

[Gps]

Yeah tuba is a nice way to describe that sound.

I just have issues sitting still with bass lines like this. the make me wanna move along.

About that hearing new stuff

The start of pump up the jam, only just now I noticed this swing ? in the hi hats.

Those hi hats ? How do I make that ?

Softer en louder notes ?

Feel free to listen to the whole song, but I am talking about the sound right from the start.
Its off beat I think.

Need two hihats in the bbe ? or is it just an echo ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EcjWd-O4jI
It was a hit over here. Number 2 for weeks.

I believe this music was called hip house ( hip hop / house ) I vote for calling it disco

More hip house from Technotronic ( same or almost the same hi hats, in every track)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6xDiPubxVU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YXp8aM5wMQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1d3SB3vRDU

[brandystarbrite]

Feel free to listen to the whole song, but I am talking about the sound right from the start.
Its off beat I think.

Somehow, it partially seems so. Even I am puzzled.

The start of pump up the jam, only just now I noticed this swing ? in the hi hats.
Those hi hats ? How do I make that ?

Softer en louder notes ?

Need two hihats in the bbe ? or is it just an echo ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EcjWd-O4jI
It was a hit over here. Number 2 for weeks.

It sounds like a succession of hihats. Similar to a drum roll.
It's possible, it may be softer to louder notes, like a kind of build up effect. An echo might be added to it too.
And later on, it sounds like a air mist sound, cut off nicely, anytime it plays.

This track, sounds like the track, that plays at the end of Ninja turtles 2 Secret of the ooze movie.

I believe this music was called hip house ( hip hop / house ) I vote for calling it disco

More hip house from Technotronic ( same or almost the same hi hats, in every track)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6xDiPubxVU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YXp8aM5wMQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1d3SB3vRDU

Hiphouse? That's a good way to describe this type of music.
I could understand, why you call it disco. There is a similarity to this music and disco.
But the synths in Hip house, make it stand out more, along with the rap singing.
I hear the same hihats you're talking about. Yep. They're in every vid you linked.

Wow! I kinda agree with one of the Youtube commenters.
That mixed black chick is strangely kinda cute. Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Lol!

Get Up (Before The Night Is Over) is cool. Wooah! It was made in 1989?
Gasp!! That would explain why it sounds like that.
Now I miss being small beanie kid, watching Ninja Turtles and eating lots of Pizza and drinking Coca Cola and Pepsi.
7up or Sprite anyone?

[Gps]

Coca Cola of course lol

[brandystarbrite]

Maybe this old school cool track, might give you some ideas.
Ralph Tresvant Sensitivity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYC95xOdNpA
That Bass, though played very low, sounds very cool for this music.

[zonkmachine]

And more specific that off beat ? guitar. Its one of those things I love in music. This song has it but its one of many.

Syncopated? I don't know what to call it but here what it looks like when you play it.
Try it out!
I failed to log into the LSP so I just pasted an mmp of two bars of it in raw text.

[brandystarbrite]

Coca Cola of course lol

Ha! Ha! I like my 7up and Sprite.

Speaking of Disco and Funk, check out this unusual, Dutch House type track, I heard a few years back.
It's called Aftershock (Can't fight the feeling) by DJ Chuckie, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N56CQw8SJHo
I find it unusually cool and it has an Old School Funk/Disco/50's kinda style, vibe and sound to it.

I never knew back then, that dutch house could sound this cool. Even though, I think this is more, than
just dutch house music.
Maybe it could help you, or give you more ideas, for your old school disco/house tracks.
What do you think of it?