song tempo

[Tachy]

Hello, I have a question about a song tempo.
When I compose a song I use always the fucking metronome and always I start with a tempo and I finish the song with the same.
Sometimes I need to change the tempo in a determinate part of a song..For your opinion can a song have more variation in time or only a conplessive time?

 

[Brett - K A L I S I A]

No rules...

 

[Tachy]

Exuse me Brett but I don't know what is "No rules? "

 

[kaomao]

Exuse me Brett but I don't know what is "No rules? "

Non ci sono regole

 

[Tachy]

Grazie!!! sono una schiappa in inglese.

 

[Brett - K A L I S I A]

Thanks for the translation Maurizio

 

[kaomao]

Thanks for the translation Maurizio

You're welcome man!

Maurizio

 

[Lord Lurion]

I usually go by the rule that you shouldn't change the tempo of a song if you can avoid it. Then again, it all depends on what style you're doing and what feel you want to translate.

 

[gumplunger]

If you're gonna do a bunch of tempo changes, at least have the common decency to come up with a better transition than just letting everything fade out and then come back at a new tempo. If you have to do that, it probably doesn't fit the song well enough and you're better off coming up with something else.

Just my $0.02

 

[Tachy]

Thanks guys for tips!!

 

[Torniojaws]

If you want to make a tempo change smooth, but don't want to change the project tempo, then (I guess this only applies if you write the songs yourself) you could change the time signature so that it sounds like the tempo didn't change but since it's in a different time signature, you'll hear the tempo change sneakily in a moment

 

[James Murphy]

I usually go by the rule that you shouldn't change the tempo of a song if you can avoid it. Then again, it all depends on what style you're doing and what feel you want to translate.

every single part of every song has it's own tempo that it "wants" to be. often this is not too far from the baseline tempo, varying only by a few bpm, but if you force every part to the exact same tempo it just isn't very organic. some parts will just feel much better a few to several bpm higher or lower than other parts, and this kind of thing is simplicity itself to program into the tempo/conductor track of any major DAW software. that's why the functionality is there.... if it were somehow "wrong" to change tempo during a song then you wouldn't have those features in DAWs. i do it all the time, sometimes very subtle changes in bpm, sometimes quite drastic... and everywhere in between. i wouldn't avoid making tempo changes during a song if it needs them... i also wouldn't put them in if it doesn't.

 

[Tachy]

Ok, everyone have one theory about the tempo, I'm agree with James..infact I use sometimes put some clean guitars parts in my composition, and if I play this part at original tempo this fucking parts can be a little slow or fast, depending by the original tempo.
Adjusting the tempo only by a few bpm is a solution, but in a live performance ?

 

[Ermz]

In a live performance you just go with vibe... what feels right at the time. It's not the studio where everything has to be 100% accurate. Unless you're playing to a backing track or triggering samples or whatnot.

 

[Tachy]

Yes, I'ts right!
Sometime I have problems with the drummers, when the tempo change the drummer don't like my mind think!
I'll probably go to replace it!!

 

[Lord Lurion]

i wouldn't avoid making tempo changes during a song if it needs them... i also wouldn't put them in if it doesn't.

Yeah, basically what I meant. It all has to be done for the benefit of the song and the style. Still, I like to be very carefull about frequent tempo changes throughout a song. If you don't do it very carefully and musically you can completely kill the flow of the whole thing. About the subtle tempo changes, they usually come in by themselves when playing live. A for a recording situation, i've never tryed that aproach.