Talk:Break (music)

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[edit] "Take Me to the Mardi Gras"

Originally the page said that Cash Crew were the first to sample the break from 'Take me to the Mardi Gras', but it was actually Rick Rubin in 'Peter Piper', a 1986 Run DMC track. Cash Crew did a re-construct of the beat on a drum machine, not the same thing at all.

Please sign your posts on talk pages per Wikipedia:Sign your posts on talk pages. Thanks! Hyacinth 03:16, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Notable breaks

Please add evidence of notability before adding these to the article. As it stands it's just a list of songs that contain breaks and therefore indiscriminate / unencyclopedic. An external link to a reliable source detailing its significance or an existing WP article about the break itself (or a section in a song article evidencing the significance of the break) should be the minimum requirement. Deizio talk 15:09, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Some of the breaks had citations. I'll readd those. Hyacinth 09:33, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
This problem is still apparent... what makes a break notable? I'm thinking specifically of inclusions like Despised Icon and Beneath The Massacre. No citations for notability. Blackmetalbaz (talk) 22:12, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] List of notable breaks

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[edit] More uncited breaks removed

The above removed as uncited. Hyacinth 04:48, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Redirect

I object to the redirection of "breakdown section", which is a separate and distinct terminology and the parent concept behind break as in breakdance. Breakdown Section is the highest and most proper terminology for this usage, and it has its own singular origin and usage. Start asking REAL DJs what the most appropriate term is before you take the entire language into your own hands and move things out of order. What about discussion on such matters? - tednor

I second that motion, mostly because the distinction between breaks and breakdowns in the current article gets very hazy, with multiple, overlapping definitions and usages jostling each other. There should be separate articles for "Break (music)" and "Breakdown (music)". InnocuousPseudonym 08:15, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
We can't ask DJs anything and cite it in Wikipedia, as that would be original research. Hyacinth 01:50, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

You don't need to cite self-evident and uncontested information, so have a DJ or two read this mess and sort out the terminology for the entries.--Tednor 20:05, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

No, you don't. However, this is contested, right here, right now. Hyacinth 04:55, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

to which I give you this: http://www.disco-disco.com/tributes/tom.shtml as only ONE in a multitude of potential sources (as this is the source for the two points you have specifically contested)--Tednor 17:02, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

furthermore, "the breakdown" is shorthand for "the breakdown section", so breakdown section needs to be the highest usage of the term. "Breakdown" itself is extremely vague: it can be a verb, it can refer to a nervous breakdown, an automotive crisis, etc... "Breakdown Section" specifically refers to the location on a dance recording that follows the second chorus, there is no conflicting usage for this exact term.--Tednor 21:05, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

Articles on similar yet different topics may be combined until those articles are no longer stubs. This keeps wikipedia from having dozens of one sentence articles on closely related subjects. Once the section on breakdowns would no longer be a stub as its own article it may be made such, with a link to that article featured at the top of the now shortened section on breakdowns in the break article. Hyacinth 04:19, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

The above statement is exactly why i wrote the two paragraphs you removed!--Tednor 16:26, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

It looks at this point that you would have enough to write on breakdowns to justify their own page. Hyacinth 05:19, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

So neither of you would mind if I move the material on breakdowns to a new article, "Breakdown section", as Tednor suggested? InnocuousPseudonym 21:53, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Removed: Section

Breakdown Sections as Creative Fodder
As pertains to hip-hop culture, the breakdowns of records were the points that early hip-hop DJ's would mix together to form extended periods of rhythm (over which MC's would soon be rapping). The breakdowns lasted for a minute or more in most cases, making it easy for the DJ's to manually "cut" between two copies of the same record (on two turntables using a mixer console) and keep the same rhythmic composition going indefinitely. This inevitably led to more material being composed on top of the raw rhythms. This first took place in the 1970's in the work of Walter Gibbons (in a disco context), and street DJ's such as Cool DJ Herc in hip-hop music, but would spread to all forms of electronic music as the 1980's progressed.
There are instances where a breakdown section has become a separate recording of its own, such as "Love Sensation" by Loleatta Holloway which became "Ride on Time" by Black Box, and "Good Times" by Chic which became "Rapper's Delight" by the Sugarhill Gang. Please see Rapper's Delight and Salsoul for supporting information.
A breakdown is different from a break as "breaks are for the drummer; breakdowns are for hands in the air" (ibid), a reference to the majority of breaks stripping away other instruments and leaving the drums or percussion. The current sub-genre of "breakbeat" is composed by DJs who loop recordings of drum breaks together into poly-rhythmic "breakbeat"

I removed the section above as it is about breaks, which are covered above in the article. Hyacinth 01:50, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

...the reason this article appears to run on and diverge so much is exactly the reason I objected to the merger of Break and Breakdown section in the first place, and it's only going to get worse because (particularly in the area of Breakdown Section), there is an INCREDIBLE amount of elaboration yet to come. Why won't anybody listen to me? I shall leave this mess to those who created it...--Tednor 20:01, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
If breakdowns are used to transition between numbers, then they cannot precede the climax in a number and are not a break from anything except numbers.

(note: breakdown sections are not used in this way ('between numbers'), they occur within a single composition exactly as described by myself and others who preceded me on this point (to precede and heighten the climax of a composition, as well as ease the mixing of two records and give the floor some righteous groove to dance to)--Tednor 16:53, 19 December 2006 (UTC))

The problem isn't that the article includes both similar concepts. The problem is simply that one of those concepts is contradictoraly and confusingly explained. The only thing that having both related topics in one article is going to do is to make it easier to define and distinguish them consistently. Hyacinth 04:38, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
The first paragraph below is entirely about breaks. Breaks are what are used to create break beats.
The second paragraph seems only to provide examples of the above.
The third and final paragraph only describes some of the difference.
None of these paragraphs happen to be about breakdowns used creatively. Hyacinth 04:40, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
You are incorrect in assuming breakbeats originate from breaks. Prior to digital equipment, a LIVE dj had to cut between playing copies of the same recording, meaning a typical break gave him 20 seconds to align the rhythms of the two recordings. Amazingly, this was done by a few VERY talented DJ's (such as Walter Gibbons, who you removed...) but in reality it needed to be the Breakdown SECTIONS that were used to create hip hop in the broadest sense. "Breakbeats" as a GENRE itself followed the advent of inexpensice digital sampling equipment (one very notable exception is the group Coldcut, who spent hours splicing together sections of tape that sometimes consisted of 1/2 bars of drums, then ran the tape loop all over the room by sticking pencils into nooks and crannies to support the tape, then they had to manually control the feed through the reel to reel machine as they dubbed it into a larger section for more practical usage. They were probably the most exceptional group in the whole genre, and only issued a handful of tracks made this way because they simply didn't have time to produce lots of material in this fashion.--Tednor 16:38, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
If I am incorrect, prove it with a quote or citation. However, breakbeats did not evolve from breaks. They are breaks. You may wish to consult Toop'sRap Attack 2: African Rap To Global Hip Hop (especially p.113-115). ISBN 1-85242-243-2. Hyacinth 23:45, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
  • "Quote:":None of these paragraphs happen to be about breakdowns used creatively."

I don't what the guys is saying about this, but it looks like he's saying that taking a part from one record and using it to make another is not creative (?) I don't get it.

Please sign your posts on talk pages per Wikipedia:Sign your posts on talk pages. Thanks! Aside from that, am I the "guys"? Read what you quote again, does it say anything like what you wrote? Hyacinth 23:39, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Extending the length of a record by using repeated sections

This accomplishment belongs firmly to Tom Moulton, the inventor of the dance remix, and not DJ Kool Herc. Furthermore, any mention of Kool Herc needs to firmly state the apocryphal nature of his existence. As someone who read the music weeklies religiously at the end of the 1980s, I will tell you flat-out that Herc went from being a myth to being re-constructed via second-hand accounts to slowly and magically evolving into a person that everybody seems to have known first hand. The chronology of the articles documenting Herc will verify this fact. At any rate, he was by no means the first person to string sections of rhythm together to make the record play longer. He was perhaps the most noted STREET dj to focus on breakdowns alone in his repertoire, a mention that I would not contest, provided it is accompanied by the fact that he is more aprocryphal than concrete. Furthermore, common sense tells us that plenty of Dj's were mixing between two copies of a record, that's what discoteques were all about with the birth of the remix and the possibilities it presented. To state such things as "the first to buy two copies of a record to mix between them" is pure hogwash!--Tednor 21:11, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

Just cite a source which claims that Moulton was the first. Then we can describe the difference between what Toop says and what other sources say. Hyacinth 23:40, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
Maybe you missed the describing the difference between what Toop and your source says part. Hyacinth 00:42, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
I apologize for not directing you to Wikipedia:Verifiability earlier, but I now quote: "The threshold for inclusion in Wikipedia is verifiability, not truth." Hyacinth

[edit] Removed

  • Most well known are breaks from soul and funk music such as the Amen break and the Funky drummer. On disco 12" records nearly every song has a break, most often multiple breaks, most noticeably an "intro", an outro, and a breakdown section.

The above was removed anonymously with no reason given. Hyacinth 00:42, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Reference

Which book is it that Brewster and Broughton wrote which seems to say everything you need to know about breaks on page 79? --Abdull 09:54, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

Look in the sources section. Note that it is not the only source used. Hyacinth 22:37, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Removed: Difference

  • "Breaks are for the drummer; breakdowns are for hands in the air" (Brewster and Broughton 2003, p.79)
  • Examples of the elements left during a breakdown include "a single string note, a German woman having an orgasm, or the voice of God telling you to take drugs" (Brewster and Broughton 2003, p.79).

Both of the above quotes have been repeatedly removed without discussion on this page. I am readding them as clear reasons for removal have yet to be given. The first quote is an explanation of the difference between breaks and breakdowns. The second provides the only examples of what is featured in a breakdown. Hyacinth 22:47, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

I suspect that the reason they have been repeatedly removed is the tongue-in-cheek tone of both quotes. They read like lame jokes, not serious definitions or clarifications. For the purposes of an encyclopedia article both would come across better if they were paraphrased instead of quoted word for word. (For the record, I never took down the second quote and have left the first one alone since you restored it.) InnocuousPseudonym 06:51, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Merge proposal

  • Do Not approve - I do not think this merge is necessary because I see breaks as a legitimate classification separate from beats. Axcess (talk) 22:17, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
  • Oppose per above. -- FatalError 23:04, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

How so? Hyacinth (talk) 01:38, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Analyze a rap_song

Perhaps some expert could Talk:Chord_(music)#Analyze_a_rap_song and list it as an example if there is anything special in it. Jidanni (talk) 01:57, 22 May 2008 (UTC)