Whoops, I deleted Mr. Fahey's messages regarding how to make a drum'n'bass
track. The thing is, I reckon as soon as a "scene" crops up around any
music, you can start to "formulate" tunes. This is not unique to
drum'n'bass. I think it's just what happens when people hear the
innovators and go "yeah, this is what I want to be doing" and start
emulating.
What I reckon is more relevant is that there are people around who will be
keen to write music that they enjoy creating and hearing, and who will be
really fresh and original because of that. In my experience, just as a
side note, these are most often _not_ the people who think it's important
to be a pioneer and push musical boundaries and so forth, rather those who
just do what they enjoy most and have a good time.
To take an example that Chris should relate to, it'd be easy to create a
hiphop formula:
sample a riff, loop it; sample a kick and a snare and chuck them on top
[1]; rap on it, with a verse verse chorus verse chorus verse chorus
structure; scratch in a vocal bit near the end.
However, then we have, say, the Invisible Scratch Pickles. In fact they're
nothing like that. In fact I can name a lot of names who are nothing like
that. Even as I write the formula I think "nah, but what about...?". Same
goes for drum'n'bass. Same goes for any kind of music I'm into, really.
Michael
[1] I can even describe exactly how the beat pattern should go, if people
can follow my notation:
1 e & a 2 e & a 3 e & a 4 e & a
K K S K K K S K
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