polyphony.

i discovered song structure today!

or at least rap.

fat joe - safe 2 say (produced by just blaze)

2+16+8+16+8+16+8+8

- 2 bar intro

- 16 bar verse

- 8 bar hook

- 16 bar verse

- 8 bar hook

- 16 bar verse hook

- 8 bar hook

- 8 bar fade out


yes!

how simple is that?! yo i swear i should have done this before. of course, there are variations to that particular mapping out of hook-verse, but yeah. it's really simple looking. i listened to the track to see what different events just used to make the song flow and not be an annoying loop.

the main loop is 8 bars, 2 bars of the overdriven guitars in what we'll call pattern a, that drop to 2 bars of the organ stab loop, then 2 bars of overdriven guitars in pattern b, that drop to the same organ stab loop.

on top of that- there are simple drops to just the drums, a drop to the bass and drums here and there, and snares accentuated with cymbal crashes, and finally, organ stabs on the snares too.

fat joe's hook, along scratches and a vocal sample (once again, back is the incredible!) seperate cleanly the hook from the verse, seeing as how otherwise, it would really sound like an annoying loop.

furthermore, he goes cleanly from hook back to verse by dropping to the drums, or dropping the drums, in the last bar of the hook.

so simple.

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this should go in my beat blog, which really needs some love, but yeah. until i get that goin again, i'll fill 'er up here.