helllo everyone..i was just watching a dj video and the dj mentioned a breakbeat.. now Ive heard this term before but what is a "breakbeat"... what is it used for and when? and where can I get some? thanks

djcorbett

Try this link:

http://www.epitonic.com/genres/breakbeat.html

Make sure to click on the "Music Genre Walkthrough" link to hear all about broken beats.

Try this too:
Go to http://en.wikipedia.org and search on "Break". Click on the one labeled "Break_(music)".
I tried to give a direct link, but I got an error saying "parenthesis are not allowed in HTML tags"

and what are they used for?? thanks alot though

djcorbett

Right from the Wikipedia page:
"A break is an instrumental or percussion section or interlude during a song derived from or related to stop-time being a "break" from the main parts of the song. According to David Toop, "the word break or breaking is a music and dance term (as well as a proverb) that goes back a long way. Some tunes, like 'Buck Dancer's Lament' from early this century, featured a two-bar silence in every eight bars for the break--a quick showcase of improvised dance steps. Others used the same device for a solo instrumental break: one of the most fetishied fragments of recorded music is a famous four-bar break taken by Charlie Parker in Dizzy Gillespie's tune "Night in Tunisia"." Most well known are breaks from soul and funk music such as the Amen break and the Funky drummer.

On disco 12" inch records nearly every song has a break, most often multiple breaks, usually after a chorus. This allowed DJs to mix between songs. Tom Moulton may have been the originator of the disco break, which he says was required when mixing between two songs in a different key. So as to not have the harmonies clash, everything but the percussion was taken out.

A break beat is the sampling of breaks as drum loops (beats), originally from soul tracks, and using them as the rhythmic basis for hip-hop and rap songs. It was invented by DJ Kool Herc, the first to buy two copies of one record so as to be able to mix between the same break (as Bronx DJ Afrika Bambaataa described it, "that certain part of the record that everybody waits for�they just let their inner self go and get wild"), extending its length through repetition (Toop, 1991). The dance the boys and girls ended up doing to break beats was called the Break, later break dancing. Breaking was abandonded in favor of doing the Freak in 1978, until it was revived and enhanced by Crazy Legs, Frosty Freeze, and the Rock Steady Crew. More recently electronic artists have created "break beats" from other electronic music. Compare with Breakbeat.

Paul Winley Record's bootleg Super Disco Breaks were the first break beat compilations. Another series is Ultimate Breaks and Beats of which there are 25 volumes, also bootleg.

Hip hop break beat compilations include Hardcore Break Beats and Break Beats, and Drum Drops (Toop, 1991)."

"And that's the,,,,,,,,,,,rest of the story....This is Paul Harvey, good day"?
Wow I'm impressed. "Just when you think you Know someone, they up and change on you"?...LoL
I like it, nice reply.

u guys notice how alot of hip-hop songs these days dont have breaks??

thanks a tonn guys that answers all questions..but is it like after a chorus and does it keep the same beat? like jus like another verse??

or is it like the acapella part where the beat changes?? any1 explain it easier?? thanks

djcorbett

"On disco 12" inch records nearly every song has a break, most often multiple breaks, usually after a chorus. This allowed DJs to mix between songs. Tom Moulton may have been the originator of the disco break, which he says was required when mixing between two songs in a different key. So as to not have the harmonies clash, everything but the percussion was taken out"

The break was usually after a chorus, and was usually just drums (percussion). It's usually the same tempo.

And yeah Fobster, seems like breaks are disappearing these days. Why do people have to talk over every second of their music? Like at the end of "Lean Back", if they didn't have to shout out to everybody & their grandmother, it would have been much easier to transition out of it. Guess thems are the breaks.

no wonder why breakdancers are disappearing into the techno/trance/house scene

me personaly... nothin says breakdancers better than an old skoo beat ((like zap'n'rogers stuff))

Djcorbett This is not the guy who mixed the music to djresound+corbettpumpupmix is it? If it is your mix was very creative as well as a great song. ..The Bigguy

Billabong like the website epitonic very

yah this is the corbett..lol thanks alott...

Why, did you think it wasn't that good? You can't put yourself down for what most people find hard to do. Your ear is tuned to the right mix, something you should be proud of.

thanks alot man i appreciate it..

djcorbett