[LAU] Latency issues (Re: Arch Wiki Professional_audio)

Will Godfrey willgodfrey at musically.me.uk
Fri Mar 31 18:00:53 UTC 2017


On Fri, 31 Mar 2017 19:41:23 +0200
Dominique Michel <dominique.c.michel at gmail.com> wrote:

> Le Fri, 31 Mar 2017 15:06:57 +0000,
> Fons Adriaensen <fons at linuxaudio.org> a écrit :
> 
> > Anyway, the way a musician performs is not by 'wanting' to play
> > each individual note when he/she thinks it is due, but rather by
> > picking up a rythm (from other players or from a conductor) and
> > anticipating the actions required to play. And for trained or
> > experienced musicians a lot of the motoric activity is automatic,
> > and the player need to not even be aware of it.
> > 
> > Ciao,
> >   
> 
> I fully agree, to practice rhythms in a regular basis is very important
> to get a fluid and varied play. And more you practice different
> rhythms, easier it become to play new ones, or to assure the show even
> when you are in a bad day. For me, it is 4 dimensions in music, the
> rhythm give us the genre, the harmony give the context, the melody give
> the meaning and the expression give the style. Harmony and melody
> are closely related, as well than rhythm and expression. More you are
> good at playing rhythms, more expressions you can give at your music. 
> 
> For me, learning to play rhythms was a very difficult and long way. I
> came from classical music and was not good at playing modern music, that
> until I begun to sing at the same time I am playing. I never regretted
> that step, this forced me to play simple things, to return to the basis,
> to use my feeling to add the complications, and to work the rhythms
> again and again until I became some kind of rhythm machine. With time,
> it begun to make sense and I surprised me to play stuffs I was never
> expecting to be able to play. And folks begun to said me not only they
> liked the song, but also that they like the way I am playing music.
> 
> Cheers,
> Dominique


Just want to add that this thread has turned out to be fascinating. Lots of
different approaches to the same core issues.

-- 
Will J Godfrey
http://www.musically.me.uk
Say you have a poem and I have a tune.
Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song.


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