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15 Comments to "The Amen Break and the Golden Ratio"
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bean
April 24th, 2008 at
9:25 am
Yup, he’s seeing things.
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Nate
April 24th, 2008 at
9:57 am
If anyone wants a history lesson on the Amen break, check this out…
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Edward
April 24th, 2008 at
10:39 am
I have long considered The Golden Ratio to be Numerology for Mathemeticians. If you look hard enough, you can find it almost anywhere.
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KT
April 24th, 2008 at
10:45 am
I published an analysis of a piece of electronic music (The sea darkens… by Joji Yuasa) in which major sections and even individual sonic events are seemingly organized around the Golden Mean. Yuasa says that he wasn’t trying to use the GM (or Golden Section) as an organizational tool but there were some remarkable moments.
Poeme electronique by Edgard Varese is reported to have been organized similarly (it was performed inside the Philips Pavilion, designed by Le Corbusier, who is well known to have made use of the GM/GS in his architecture).
It works well for musicians as it is not in the “normal” 1/2 or 1/3 proportion that most metrical music is written in.
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Review Stew
April 24th, 2008 at
10:51 am
Not to be a hater, but that’s some very poor analysis he does on the web page. For one thing, the points he chooses are approximate, not exactly lining up with the onset of the loudness peaks. I think he’s really seeing a ratio of 1.625:1. In musical terms, that would be an accent on the downbeat of a 4/4 measure, and another accent on the fifth 8th-note of the measure. Pretty standard stuff in funk music and many other genres.
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Christophe
April 24th, 2008 at
1:00 pm
Today I had to take care of an intern. She has short legs. She does not fit the graphs in the website.
What does it mean? That she’s not good at funk music?it’s all BS.
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avraamov
April 24th, 2008 at
2:09 pm
thank you review stew. this is guff.
its a wing of the pythagorean ‘harmony of the spheres’ school of musicology and its numerous descendants (which 99% of the world’s music has nothing to do with - can somebody supply some golden section/non golden section statistics for the worlds music please?)
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Stephanie
April 24th, 2008 at
5:11 pm
Hey! Thats my math teacher!
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avraamov
April 24th, 2008 at
5:21 pm
you should tell him to go and have lunch with the anthropologists for a change…
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Alannah
April 24th, 2008 at
9:34 pm
As I read the article, I could actually feel the clue fly slightly above my head. I also felt it crap there. That’s just not nice.
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Moodindigo
April 25th, 2008 at
2:52 am
A great video about the Amen break:
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Reechard
April 25th, 2008 at
4:57 am
The article is horrible but the Amen Break is very interesting in itself. I’m going to also recommend the video that Moodindigo posted above.
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goosemydog
April 26th, 2008 at
1:17 pm
I hate to be the bearer of negative news but this beat was alive and well a few years before the Winstons used it in ‘69. When I played in a garage band in during most of the 60’s, our first drummer was using it in ‘65 or ‘66. He used to call it the Seattle beat. The northwest bands were using it in the early 60’s–like the Wailers and Kingsmen and a local favorite, the Beachcombers.
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christian gehrke
April 29th, 2008 at
1:26 pm
This is very very interesting. I am amazed at anything related to the golden ratio. Now this is also a great overview of the “amen break” itself. I found this very well made.
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christian gehrke
April 29th, 2008 at
1:27 pm
oops someone already posted that link. oh well.
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