[NEWBIE] Help with "holes" in song

[neclepsio]

Hello everyone,

I'm moving my first steps in MMA and find it great.
I cannot solve a problem that I have in multiple songs.

For example:

Tempo 97
Groove Ballad
1 F / C
2 Dm
3 C
4 C7   

On bar 3, there is a moment of silence on first beat. I think it's related to Ballad groove. How can I avoid it, other than by changing groove?

Thank you,
Ignazio

[bvdp]

First ... welcome to the wonderful world of MMA

The "Silence" on the 3rd bar is just how the groove was designed. There is a nice bass note there. But, if it bothers you there are several simple solutions:

1. Use a different groove,

2. Enjoy the silence. Frankly I think it sounds just fine (but I wrote it),

3. Use a riff modification for that bar:

Groove Ballad
1 F / C
2 Dm
Chord Riff C1234
3 C
4 C7   

Riff is something to apply to a SINGLE bar

4. Modify the groove itself. That, too, is easy:

Groove Ballad  // load the groove to change
Chord Sequence C1234 C13 C1 C13 /// just an example, probably sounds awful
DefGroove Ballad  /// now we have a new ballad groove in memory

Let us know what works.

[neclepsio]

This is a wonderful world indeed!
Since I play bass guitar, bass track is disabled in my song! That's why I've this problem.

Thank you for the solutions you gave me.
I think I will "fork" ballad.

Thank you
Ignazio

 

[bvdp]

Yes, the missing bass will make it sound very odd indeed ... that's why I aways want a bass player in my group

Should be easy to have a new ballad groove. See the manual discussion about having your own library which can override the default stdlib.

[neclepsio]

I don't know, I think a "Beat=..." followed by "Auto" could be enough. At least, in my experience. But I used this solution so rarely... Maybe for other songs it's different.

[bvdp]

I don't know, I think a "Beat=..." followed by "Auto" could be enough. At least, in my experience. But I used this solution so rarely... Maybe for other songs it's different.

Sorry, but I have no idea what you mean. Perhaps a few lines of actual MMA code might help me

Best,