RESEARCH: Question for musicians

[CharleyH]

I believe it's some sort of primitive mating ritual

Hm, lol I have always enjoyed eating monkey brains.

Seriously SJ ....

(Actually PM 'cuz I am out a here tonight. love, and may not revisit this thread)

EDIT TO ADD: original question was about music and I will revisit only to look.

 

[Huckleman2000]

There is a name for it in Radio terminologies. I've heard it used before. It's where the DJ talks over the music until, and I'm guessing from memory here, the DJ talks over the music until the Post int he song. After that point it's polite for them to shut the fuck up and let the song play.

Side note:
I'm so glad I have satellite radio where the DJs don't talk over the music anymore. I don't mide DJs but I would rather hear the songs without them talking over them.

I know you're right, but I can only think of 'intro' and 'outro' (which is the same sort of thing on the end of the song).

Thanks, now I've got a mindworm.

 

[hmmnmm]

A riff is generally a phrase or a line - single notes or chords or a mixture - that somewhat defines the piece/song. It may occur at the beginning (thus being a riff and an intro) and then change somewhere into the song - likely to return at a later point, say the end. Solos can occur anywhere, though generally after a verse/chorus once or twice through. Solos are generally single notes or double stops, though certainly not always.
And, as always, the science/art that music is, these are mere generalities subject to no pat formulaic rules.

I just noticed I come perilously close to overusing 'general' and 'generalities'.

Don't know what the technical term for #2 is - It's somewhere in the back of my brain, and still hazy.
dang it, what's that called...?

Hi all!

 

[Huckleman2000]

Okay, I found this with the following:

Track structure: 4 beats make up a bar, several bars make a loop, repeat the loop a few times and you have the theme (the characteristic melody of the track) and repeat the theme a few times and you have a stage. Loops are 4 or 8 bars, most of the time, themes are 16 to 32 bars (2 to 8 loops) and 2 to 8 times the theme makes the intro, body, break, build up/climax or outro/exit.

Talk over: When this button is pushed on the mixer it reduces the music to a minimum so the DJ can talk to the crowd. [This is what I've heard the instrumental beginning of a song referred to as]