Context — Leeds Print Festival — OUGD603

After listening to the song, it is clear that there is a huge emphasis on drums within the production. The unusual 1/12 snare pattern is not something you hear in a pop song everyday. This presented a great opportunity to literally visualise the drum pattern and create something that reflects this unusual aspect of the song.

The key to a successful outcome in something like this is drawing from past experiences with Secret 7, and that is not to take too much direct inspiration from the video or any other aspects of the identity that the song has already got associated with it. Ensuring a completely original outcome that is an interpretation of your own rather than someone else's.

To get the ball rolling, analysing the drum pattern of an 8 bar sample of a high quality MP3 within Logic Pro X ensured no elements would be missed when converting into MIDI:



The BPM of the track needed to be exactly the same as the speed of the production, allowing a side-by-side comparison of the drum pattern.

Here is the outcome in audio form:

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And in visual MIDI form: