How to Write for Percussion Part II: Note Values, Tempo, Quantization

For this next post in my “Writing for Percussion” series, we’re going way back to music basics to get a foundation for how to read — and how to countĀ  — rhythms. We’ll do this by understanding beats, bars, note values and tempo. And, because we are generally focused onĀ modern digital production concepts, we’ll relate these musical foundations to things like controlling tempo and MIDI quantization within our Digital Audio