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Beat Connection Collection: Beat Foundations

Beat Connection Collection: Beat Fundamentals

In Beat Connection, we explore modern and vintage dance styles the only way we know how…by providing you a musical starting point to help you create that beat. In this collection, we’re highlighting Beat Connection posts that detail the fundamental foundations of beatmaking, elemental topics like rhythm, pitch and structure. Check them out below and get the beat going yourself!

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The Beat Composer’s Cheat Sheet

Your reference companion on your beat-making quest | READ »

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The Elements of a Song

You can’t revolutionize music if you don’t know how to build a song first | READ »

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Understanding Musical Tempo

Discover the connection between musical tempo and the human heartbeat  | READ »

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What’s the Matter with Musical Meter?

4/4, 3/4… meter makes all the matter in your beats…10-4? | READ »

Beat Connection - Understanding Pitch

 

Get to Know Pitch

Learning pitch opens the door to mastering harmony and more | READ »

Aug 7, 2018Mason
4 years ago Beat Connection
Mason

Editor of the zZounds Blog. Donut snob. I love to write and to play guitar, so naturally, I love writing about guitars. My favorite kind of music is the kind that sounds like Muzak but cooler, you know?

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