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Music on the timing grid: The influence of microtiming on the perceived groove quality of a simple drum pattern performance — Musicae Scientiae
- Key
- fruhauf2013-timing-grid
- Authors
- Frühauf, Jan; Kopiez, Reinhard; Platz, Friedrich
- Issued
- 2013-6
- Type
- article-journal
- Container
- Musicae Scientiae
- Volume
- 17
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 246-260
Raw CSL JSON
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"page": "246-260",
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"title": "Music on the timing grid: The influence of microtiming on the perceived groove quality of a simple drum pattern performance",
"author": [
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"given": "Jan",
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"given": "Reinhard",
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"given": "Friedrich",
"family": "Platz"
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"issued": {
"date-parts": [
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Claims
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In a rock drum pattern rated by 93 music students, the quantized version was rated highest; early shifts were rated worse than late ones and snare shifts worse than bass-drum shifts; the authors conclude some groove-oriented styles have an aesthetics of exactitude.
"(a) The highest ratings of perceived drum pattern quality were given for the rhythmically accurate (quantized) version; (b) the increasing deviation in microtiming resulted in lower quality ratings; (c) [...] early time shift was rated more negatively than the comparable late time shift; (d) in general, microtiming deviations on the snare drum were rated worse than comparable deviations on the bass drum [...] We conclude that at least some styles of modern groove-oriented music are characterized by an aesthetics of “exactitude” and a groove effect independent of microtiming deviations."
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