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I am struggling to write a part for a song where the pace/BPM of the song goes from 128 to 256 very suddenly. My difficulty is basically in the drums. Can you please suggest existing songs that have very sudden changes in rhythm/BPM for me to steal borrow learn some ideas?

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Howdy....

I can think of one possibility for you off the top of my pea brain:

In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed - Allman Brothers.

Hope that helps....

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You may want to attempt the transition using BIAB's Song Form Medley Maker. It's designed to transition songs with different keys, tempo's or styles. Transitions can be any number of bars between 0-16 and BIAB will automatically create the transition and input transition chords. The user can override the chords and change them to whatever is wanted.

I loaded two demo songs, one at 128 and the other at 256 with a two bar transition and BIAB had no difficulty creating a 4 bar drum fill going from 128 BPM to 256 BPM. (Four bars derived from 2 bar transition for song one and 2 bar transition for song two.)

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Great one Charlie!!

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Paul McCartney did that a lot in the late ‘60s–‘70s. These were all hits:

Those Were the Days (arranger and producer)

Come and Get It (writer and producer)

Maybe I’m Amazed

Junior’s Farm

Too Many People

Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey

Jet

Live and Let Die

Band on the Run


That’s just off the top of my head. Pretty sure I’ve missed a few and I haven’t gone into album cuts.


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Originally Posted By: chulaivet1966

In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed - Allman Brothers.
Hope that helps....

Not exactly what I wanted, but it's a very inspiring track. Gave me some ideas.

Originally Posted By: Mike Halloran
Paul McCartney did that a lot in the late '60s-'70s. These were all hits:

Well... only Live and Let Die has a sudden change of pace. The others aren't sudden or don't even change pace at all. Perhaps I wasn't clear in my request. But OK, it's always good to listen to Live and Let Die once again.

My track has been fixed. Mission accomplished. Thanks everyone.

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If I did the tempo Macs, you’d see changes in every tune I listed.


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A song we used to play back in the day.... Charlie Daniels "Saddle Tramp".... starts out slow country and transitions into a much faster jazz based prog jam. So it not only speeds up but it changes genre as well.

We loved it but the dancers hated it.... going from a slow dance to What The? in about 10 seconds.... so keep in mind if this is a song people are dancing too.... they're not going to like the uptempo interruption.


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