Stage 3Space
The notes you do not play. A groove you already own with a beat, a half bar or a whole bar taken out of it — and coming back in exactly on time.
Holesa beat taken out
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The rock beat with beat 3 emptied — one silent beat in the middle of every bar.
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Beat 4 emptied instead, so the silence runs into the bar line and you re-enter on the down-beat.
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The silent beat moves one later each bar — 2, then 3, then 4, then both 2 and 4.
Could not read stage-03-space/holes-walking.mid
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Stop timea bar with nothing in it
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One bar of groove, one bar of nothing, twice over.
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The same stop, with one snare on beat 4 of the empty bar — the note that proves you kept counting.
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Two beats of groove, two of silence — and the halves swap every bar, so every other bar opens empty.
Could not read stage-03-space/stops-alternating.mid
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Sparsealmost nothing, exactly on time
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Kick and hat together on beat 1, and nothing at all for the other three.
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Kick on 1, snare on 3, a hat with each — two hits a bar with a beat of silence between them.
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One hit, then two, then four, then eight — the same pulse at four densities.
Could not read stage-03-space/sparse-doubling.mid
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Checkpointa bar of each — switching between patterns is what makes them stick
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Four bars, four different silences: a hole, a whole empty bar, a crawl, and a half bar.
Could not read stage-03-space/checkpoint-3.mid
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