Kind Of Interesting

[TehBorken]

You've all heard this drum snippet in countless shows, commercials, and ads... It's called the "world's most important 6-sec drum loop" (lol!).

This video from  Nate Harrison (see the link) narrates the history of the"Amen Break," a six-second drum sample from the b-side of achart-topping single from 1969. This sample was used extensively inearly hiphop and sample-based music, and became the basis fordrum-and-bass and jungle music -- a six-second clip that spawnedseveral entire subcultures. Nate Harrison's 2004 video is a cool look at the ownership of culture, the nature of art and creativity, and thehistory of a remarkable music clip.

http://nkhstudio.com/pages/amen_mp4.html

(Of course, then again, maybe I'm the only one that thinks this is kinda neat. Wouldn't be the first time...  -tb)

[P.C.]

I think it's neat.   Anything music is good.

 

Only slightly related, is something called 'The Diamond Affect'.  They've actually done studies about how the beat and/or rhythm of music actually causes our hearts to beat differently or pattern itself to the beat.  Certain music can slow our heartbeats and blood pressure. 

The order of music has its effects too, but more on our brain than our heart.  Our mind performs better when listening to mucic with a specific order (can't remember what music does what, mind you).

 

Repetition in music can cause a feeling of anger or for the mind to simply shut down or shut out.  It even has an effect on our strength or weakness, muscularly.

 

There's a ton more results from this study that are pretty interesting.