Talk:Motorik

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Who did invent this word? It's almost ridicolous, it sounds like a british joke. Brian Wilson 12:47, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

Brian, grow up. The word has been in common use in music journalism for many years now. Pick up a copy of anything from "NME" or "The Wire" and you will see it in print. And furthermore, people in Britain are allowed to make jokes if they so wish. The article has been given remedial attention and does not need to be deleted.--feline1 14:00, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

Too many people are just promoting themselves and their POV here

This "article" is egregiously poor! --feline1 16:23, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

I removed the {{Fact}} tag from "The word "motorik" means "motor skill" in German," because "Motorik" DOES mean "motor skill." Look it up in a German to English dictionary if you want, or ask someone who can speak the language. --McDohl 15:20, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] etymology

The Krautrock article calls motorik 'a mongrel word meaning, roughly, "mechanical music".' There's a footnote, but that doesn't lead to any meaningful source as to the origins of the word.

Now, I do not know who coined the term or when. Probably I still was in diapers. But as a native speaker of the german tongue, the "mongrel word" explanation seems much more credible. Like, taking the muse out of music and putting a motor in it's place. That the result means is identical to the word for "motor skill" actually distracts from the pun. However, I absolutely have no source whatsoever to back this up, hence I'll refrain from changing the article.

Furthermore, I submit the addition of a brief description as an "ever-repeating, changeless dam-dam-dam-dam" before the more technical explanation; finally, there's a sample available that might be more helpful than a thousand words:
Download a 30s sample of "Hallogallo", the lead track of Neu! (650KB, 160 kbit/s OGG-Vorbis file)

Thanks for your time. --Schnobs, 83.171.182.195 19:41, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Self-contradiction

Compare "The motorik rhythm pattern generally consists of three crotchet (quarter note) hits of a bass drum, followed by one crotchet hit of a snare..." to the paragraph straight after it: "In each bar, two crotchet beats are played on the bass drum followed by a snare drum hit and a bass drum hit of equal length to complete the bar." So the first paragraph says it's bass-bass-bass-snare and the second paragraph says it's bass-bass-snare-bass. Which is it? Henre (talk) 10:14, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

both, listen to sister ray —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.125.110.223 (talk) 18:07, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Both variants seem not to be true if it is about "Autobahn". It's rhytmic structure contains bass only for first two quaters, do not contain bass at last two quaters, but contain snare at 3rd and sometimes 4th-and-a-half quater. Maybe the second variant (bass-bass-snare-bass) is true for Hallogallo, but in this case it must be considered as eights not as quaters (or as quaters in the very fast tempo) --A4 (talk) 21:42, 15 January 2008 (UTC)