Big Rhythms
By horatiuromantic on January 25, 2026 11:52 pm
I don't know man, it's late, did this one kinda last minute.
# B I G V I D E O #
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My goal this week was to do a piece with a straight groove (no swing).
It's inspired by Romanian folkloric music. You can prob recognize this 3 + 3 + 2 + 2 rhythm from many cultures but I listened to a bunch of Romanian stuff as I was researching rhythms and vibed with this one. In Romanian folk it seems like a lot of it is 4/4 with swing. But there are some rhythms like this one, and 7/4, that seem typically straight, or at least based on my limited knowledge.
I started exploring on the M8, with 4/4 groove, but didn't really get anywhere. I didn't quite vibe with my samples, I don't like that I can't round robin and perform it... Then when I wanted to do weirder grooves, forget it. I can't really master it, even tho I mess with the groove setting a lot, and it's interesting to explore.
The drums you hear are me fingerdrumming on the piano keyboard, on Levi's drums in Logic but he is not playing this time. I'm 90% freestyling the drums but I edited a bit in the notes editor and quantized, so not a real drums performance. First I did the drums then the piano.
Piano (distorted wurli on the Korg SV-2S) is one take. I also added wacky strings also from the SV-2S hahah. I would have done more takes to make it more "perfect" but it's fine. It won't go on an album, I will def rerecord it someday, but I'm glad I sort of finished the composition. I only used Sunday afternoon on it!!! altho exploration wise I thought about it all week, but didn't get any actual work done until today.
HOPE U ENJOY MY BIG RHYTHMS!
It's too quick and dirty to really look forward to all your constructive criticism (I know many things that could be improved) but I focused on the groove and the melody/bass composition, and again playing bass while soloing and keeping a strong groove (which I lose at couple places). So that's what I'm interested in hearing your thoughts about, if you have any reactions or criticisms!
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LATER EDIT:
I performed this live in my set at La Boucherie (those who visited Monkey Gorilla track from week 05 know what that's all about):
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