Week 4

Disco

  • Popular form of music in the 70s 

  • Saturday Night Fever

  • Disco Demolition Night in Chicago considered end of Disco 

Punk began to rise 

  • Stripped down (no strings 

  • Simple, raw, unproduced 


Micheal Jackson 

  • Almost all synthesized 

Salt n pepa 

Run DMC 

Beat box evolution

  • Drum machines

    • Drum machines or beat boxes are “played” or programmed 

    • Small trigger pads are sometimes present 

    • Real-time or step entry

    • Drum sounds are loaded into groups or “kits”

  • Digital Drums 

    • Drumsets are reproductions of acoustic drumsets in manner of performance

    • Percussion controllers include mallet like or hand percussion models

    • Trigger pads come in various materials configurations

    • Have become a substitute for the many instruments a percussionist could be expected to play in a single performance

  • History

    • Drum machines 

    • Rhythmicon 

      • Worlds first electronics drum or rhythm machine

      • Created by Leon Theremin 

    • Ace Tone Rhythm Ace

      • Early dum beat playback device

      • Only presets no user creation could adjust tempo

    • Linn LM1 drum computer 1980

    • Akai mpc-60 1988

    • Roland TR-808 1980

    • Roland TR-909 1984

    • Yamaha - RY30 RX7 RX11

    • Digital Drumsets

      • Moody Blues drummer Graeme Edge Electronic drum kit solo 1971

      • Kraftwerk, Florian Schneider and Ralf Hutler receive a US patent for the design of an electronic Percussion Musical Instrument 1977

    • Pollard syndrum 

      • One of the earliest production electronic drums 1976 

      • Designed to extend the traditional acoustic set 

    • Simmons SDS 

      • Production electronic drums 

      • Hard plastic playing surface

      • Unique hexagonal shape of pads



  • Large change in how songs were created 

    • From Segmented recording with individual players->entire instrumental track can be created by one person outside of the studio 

  • Herbie Hancock 

  • Hip hop began in random spaces where people would gather with boom boxes and play the breakdown from good times and freestyle over it 

  • Became Sugar Hill’s Rapper’s Delight 

  • Signals on a mixer travel from the top down. 

    • Gain: first volume control 

      • Microphones have weaker signal than synth so gain might need to be turned up 

    • EQ 

      • High, Mid, Low frequency controls

    • Aux send and return reverb unit 

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