It’s a 2 bar loop. "The drums from 'Night Fever' basically consisted of two bars at 30ips," he says. "The tape was over 20 feet long and it was running all around the control room - I gaffered some empty tape-box hubs to the tops of mic stands and ran the tape between the four-track machine and an MCI 24-track deck, using the tape guides from a two-track deck for the tension. Because it was 4/4 time - just hi-hats and straight snare - it sounded steady as a rock, and this was pre-drum machine. For the tempo I used the varispeed on the MCI four-track, so the drums that ended up on the 24-track were at least third-generation, and because the tape heads were so badly worn I brightened the tracks that were already Dolby A-encoded with high-end EQ from the API console."
wow for some reason I Said to myself what is the drumbeat to staying alive this is the badest technology in the world man I wish I would of had this 40 years ago great job putting this together sure helps... Roland J Gutierrez from Magdalena New Mexico USA 🇺🇸
Does anyone know where the ghost note sixteenth notes are coming from? Either a second musician, some kind of delay effect, or they're actually being played by Dennis Bryon, either with his right hand on the hi-hat, possibly his left hand on the hi-hat, or his left hand on the snare drum. To me, it sounds like a second musician playing either a tambourine or a cabasa but it's hard to tell.
@@LeoMoscatelo A friend gave me a few multitracks of Queen and the Police that I've opened in Audicity (last year). Is there a place that you can get the multitracks for about any song? Feel free to reach out to me thru email if you don't want to reply here. You can thru my "about" page on my profile. Thanx Leo!!
Has anyone realized that “Stayin Alive” is somehow in between 103 and 104 bpm? How is that possible? I know they made a tape loop but can someone explain this?
A truly steady or numerically rounded tempo is a concept that has only taken hold since computer/DAW recording gained prominence. Even if they did record “Night Fever” to a click, which they may not have, Dennis may have been playing ahead of or behind the beat (an ancient concept known as “feel”) or tape speed could have altered the tempo slightly when they created the loop.
Click recording technology exists long before the age of sotware, The Eagles used it in H.C. 1976, Besides - it's a 5 second lopped recording So the tempo can't go wrong
This drum beat saves lives
Necessity is the mother of invention.
I never realized it had so many fills and variations.
I had thought it was just like 20 seconds looped.
It’s a 2 bar loop.
"The drums from 'Night Fever' basically consisted of two bars at 30ips," he says. "The tape was over 20 feet long and it was running all around the control room - I gaffered some empty tape-box hubs to the tops of mic stands and ran the tape between the four-track machine and an MCI 24-track deck, using the tape guides from a two-track deck for the tension. Because it was 4/4 time - just hi-hats and straight snare - it sounded steady as a rock, and this was pre-drum machine. For the tempo I used the varispeed on the MCI four-track, so the drums that ended up on the 24-track were at least third-generation, and because the tape heads were so badly worn I brightened the tracks that were already Dolby A-encoded with high-end EQ from the API console."
Bernard Lupe had a hot hand on that track. He was my first drum teacher before Sheila E and Prince came along.
Omg man!!! YOU ARE A GOD!! Thank you!!! And you dont only have one good song u have so many stum Tracks!!!
Thank you!
Thanks
Nice drummers
wow for some reason I Said to myself what is the drumbeat to staying alive this is the badest technology in the world man I wish I would of had this 40 years ago great job putting this together sure helps... Roland J Gutierrez from Magdalena New Mexico USA 🇺🇸
Thank you for comment! Cheers Roland from Argentina!
@@LeoMoscatelo what 😭
The drum set.
That Bernard Lupe got around.
Yes it is quite amazing, the first click track
I always preferred this drum part to that of "More Than A Woman".
Ha ha! it's the same drum loop (for anyone that didn't know) it was also used on 'Woman in Love'
@@coolmacatrain9434 That Bernard Lupe got all the calls for a while 😆
@@johnseal56 same as Night Fever
It’s actual tape loop
That Bernard Lupe was busy for a while.
listening on headphones it sounds like they overdubbed the open hi hat, at the end of each bar. it sounds great but wtf?
Does anyone know where the ghost note sixteenth notes are coming from? Either a second musician, some kind of delay effect, or they're actually being played by Dennis Bryon, either with his right hand on the hi-hat, possibly his left hand on the hi-hat, or his left hand on the snare drum. To me, it sounds like a second musician playing either a tambourine or a cabasa but it's hard to tell.
After listening to Night Fever, I think it could also be muted strokes on the guitar.
I don't know.
Thanx for posting all of these gems! If you don't mind me asking, what software are you using to do this? Thanx again!
They are multitracks or stems files, I open them with Audacity. Thank you!
@@LeoMoscatelo A friend gave me a few multitracks of Queen and the Police that I've opened in Audicity (last year). Is there a place that you can get the multitracks for about any song? Feel free to reach out to me thru email if you don't want to reply here. You can thru my "about" page on my profile. Thanx Leo!!
@@JeffWald Search the web, there are several sites.
@@LeoMoscatelo Thanx brother
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Has anyone realized that “Stayin Alive” is somehow in between 103 and 104 bpm? How is that possible? I know they made a tape loop but can someone explain this?
I do not know
A truly steady or numerically rounded tempo is a concept that has only taken hold since computer/DAW recording gained prominence. Even if they did record “Night Fever” to a click, which they may not have, Dennis may have been playing ahead of or behind the beat (an ancient concept known as “feel”) or tape speed could have altered the tempo slightly when they created the loop.
@@AaronTapavicza Thank you for the info!
@@AaronTapavicza "ancient concept known as 'feel' " 😂😂
Click recording technology exists long before the age of sotware,
The Eagles used it in H.C. 1976,
Besides - it's a 5 second lopped recording
So the tempo can't go wrong
Correction… this drum beat saves bassists
False
It was.a.lopp.tje one And first loop of shit