on 4k, is there any particular approach for note choices or lane choices you find intuitive for charting rhythms that switch between 4/4 and 3/4, or moments where a beat is divided into three after working with fours?
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on 4k, is there any particular approach for note choices or lane choices you find intuitive for charting rhythms that switch between 4/4 and 3/4, or moments where a beat is divided into three after working with fours?
it can depend a lot of things like song choice, how prominent the drums are, how often the rhythms switch between 4/4 and 3/4, etc, if you have a certain song or portion of a song in mind, feel free to post it and I'll try to explain how I'd chart it, but for this example I'm going to assume some kind of electronic music that's relatively straightforward, like dnb or techno, with a strong kick and snare.
when I'm looking at a song to chart, I'll try to figure out the layering scheme first. a tried and true scheme I use is putting kicks on one side and snares on the other, then figuring out how to mirror that scheme with any sort of regularity. if the song is straight 4/4, I might do something like 4 measures of kicks to the left/snares to the right, then hopefully there's some kind of musical fill that lets me transition in the next 4 measures of kicks to the right/snares to the left without the mirroring being blatantly obvious, repeat for however long is needed until there's a musical break. but if there's an instance of 3/4, I might try to put the transition into the mirrored drums there instead, especially if it's somewhere in the middle of the measure and not on the first beat. maybe I should take some screenshots to better explain what I mean lol.
but song choice can make a huge impact on this. if I'm charting something with prominent synths or piano, and those notes are the ones that switch between 4/4 and 3/4, I'd more than likely chart that with single notes, maintaining pitch relevancy, then layer in drums by simply adding a note when there's a drum on top, trying my best to not force a jack.
here's a wip of a chart I finished about a month ago, not entirely sure on the technical language for describing what the song is actually doing but the entire song is like snapped to 11s??? very wonky rhythms and while it doesn't quite explain what I'm talking about wrt transitioning between 4/4 and 3/4, it does show what I mean by layering kicks/snares with a strict right/left dichotomy vs layering kicks/snares when there's a prominent synth passage playing