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Cycles in the musical structure

To begin with, cycles in musical structure have a name all their own. We call them introduction, build-up, break, drop or outro. These cycles are made up of a well-defined number of bars. More precisely, a defined number of beats. It all depends on the structure of the rhythm itself. If you want to improve your mixes or learn to mixYou need to know and identify the cycles in the musical structure.

 

Composing a song :

the song contains cycles.

Cycles contain measurements.

Measures contain beats.

The composer is free to compose his or her own piece. It's not uncommon to see a cycle with an odd number of bars.

For example:

1 cycle of 8 bars with a 4/4 rhythm will produce 32 beats.

However, the composer can add a bar, resulting in 36 beats instead of 32.

Today, we often see this practice in electronic music. As a DJ, you need to know your tracks inside out, especially when the producer adds beats to the cycles.

Example in a DJ mix:

Let's imagine you're linking one piece with another, and the current bar is 36 beats long. Your next piece will start 4 beats too early. In this case, you need to start the second piece 4 beats later than normal.

The composition of the musical structure, rhythm, cycle, bar, time and key by musical style. For 4/4 rhythms, i.e. 4 beats per bar, cycles are 8, 16, 32 or 64 beats long. In all cases, the cycles are a multiple of 4 in 4/4.

In electronic music, bars are usually 4 beats long (if not all the time).

On the other hand, in rock music, it's not uncommon to observe rhythmic constructions with 3-beat measures.

This kind of sequence is quite rare for a DJ, but it is possible..