Syncopation

Don't just use it like I mentioned earlier.

Syncopation.

Ted Reed's Syncopation.

It's just two lines, top and bottom.

Play that, get creative with it, and play a swing ride pattern while you're playing the left hand on the snare.

From there, his orchestra was at Chicago's Municipal Pier and the Casino Dance Hall at the White City Amusement Park.

Unlike most early jazz musicians who called themselves Doc or Professor, in 1926 Charles L. Cook received a genuine doctorate from the Chicago College of Music and began billing himself as Doc Cook and his 14 Doctors of Syncopation.

His recording career began in 1924 for Jeanette, where he cut six sides.

He also had one session at OK and four at Columbia over the next four years.

This show is produced by Soundstock with over eleven million full tracks, music loops, sound effects, and music samples at soundstock.com. Today we dive into Timbaland's rhythm design secrets.

Syncopation, silence, sample innovation, and how you can apply these techniques in your own studio.

Timbaland's rhythm work feels like a secret handshake between the producer and the beat.

He turns tiny mouth clicks into melodic hooks that sit at the edge of the groove.

Okay, got it.

Syncopation, on the other hand, is all about playing with time.

How so?

Well, instead of hitting the musical note right on the predictable steady beat like a marching band counting one, two, three, four.

Super rigid.

Right.

Syncopation hits the notes between the beats.

It emphasizes the offbeat.