Albrecht, I'm enjoying your latest music, Chillax, as I write this. For some reason, I especially like the emphasis of the singleton, pairs and triplets of low frequency percussive sounds. They seem to make sure that your attention doesn't wander. They're an independent entity, emphasizing and commenting on the piano melody. When these deep percussive sounds appear *just* ahead of the beat, they pleasantly anticipate it. I've always liked this, and previously had only heard it in African drum music. The drummer Olatunji had a 20 foot long drum that he used for anticipating the beat when I saw him in concert. When he walked up to that drum (held up at a shallow angle from the horizontal so that he could just barely reach the head of it to play it) in the middle of an ongoing piece, my anticipation of his anticipatory beat was perhaps similar to someone tensing 'in sympathy' with a diver as they leap to land on the end of the springboard to be launched into the air for the dive. - Hal Lane ######################## # hallane@earthlink.net ######################## --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com