How to catch your audience off guard (in a good way) 

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For the 300K subscriber celebration, I think we need a 2hr outro of Oscar dancing.

I love this "trick" in rock music, where the guitar starts playing a riff but it doesn't start at 1. then the drums and the bass come in at an unexpected time and the riff feeling changes completely. good stuff!

When the kick came back in someone liked the video at the same time.😎👍🏾

just a comment to show you my love and respect 🙏people like you make this world a better place, inspiring creation and simply giving a positive mood, bless your heart bro 🤝

Drexciya did this very well with Black Sea.

I love stuff like this. I play metal, but this kind of thing is still amazingly fun to me. Listen to Meshuggah - Do Not Look Down and Combustion. Those two songs do the "misleading 1" thing, where you THINK you know what's happening, but then the groove comes in and you have to reorient yourself. Throws you and surprises you. Another good one is Swarm by the same band, really sets you up for one tempo and groove, and then when the groove hits it's so much vigger and slower than you had anticipated.

Why I love true Techno 🥰

I use to watch your videos. Your way of speaking and expressions makes me feel that I am watching a man that genuinely loves electronic music just like me and other people around the world. I feel identified 🎹🥁⚡🔥

Jon Hopkins is a master of this. His remix for disclosure is an incredible example

2:30 very proud moment! I felt that! Good job tho, thank you for this, one definitely had most of us caught off guard. great videos

Thanks for your tutorials and these very true words.I'm one of the classics examples of this.now the new year is my new beginning of better psychology.anyway,cheers

I love this really dark atmospheric groove you made it sounds awesome. Can you do a video on how the synths work in this track?

I love how this technique makes you feel getting lost in the beat. Kessell - Addictive States is a nice track using this trick.

Great drop! Big fan of the way you explain this stuff so intuitively. Love from Belgium!

Great work as always Oscar! Your tutorials have really helped me build my love of Techno and approach music in a more realistic and disciplined fashion. Thank you so much :)

thank you. i save every video you make. theyre so useful

Brilliant, as always

Brillant, clear and concise as always! Thanks Oscar 😁

Thanks again!

I love this. What a great sound.

LSD- Process 1 has that kind of vibe🔥

Oh, its nice to see you remixing Aeternal. His music is awesome 🖤

That remix is a thumper!

Very neat! Love it

Badass thanks for sharing the knowledge

Awesome man.

that is so damn cool man thank you this is great stuff killer song too

well explained, thanks!

I love this effect, and I've heard it termed elsewhere as metric ambiguity. I think Bound To Divide summed it up nicely in his video on the subject: "...the kick didn't actually come in at the wrong time, your understanding of the rhythm was just incorrect." Ha, love it!

X/Y/Secrets sounds awesome!

yoo so cool i really was confused on build-up

You can increase the trickery one level: When the kick and other drums drop out, you make the syncopated stab come in after a short pause (maybe fade in) and you actually place it where the kick would have been. But unbeknownst to the audience, you cut a small part of the last beat before the break. Then when the Kick comes back in, it is not in the expected place. In other words: Instead of just provoking the listener to be unsure where the one is, you actually change where the one is. I don't know if you can reset the grid in Ableton. If not, you could finish the part before the break. Then move everything one bar to the right, cut the last bit from the last bars before the break and move everything before the break to the right so it fits with the break. The beats before the break will then all be 'wrong' according to the ruler on top and the lines in the background. But you can ignore that if you only do that once the arrangement/structure is finished.

nice. Again, something to incorporate into my solo didgeridoo playing...

Oscar for president 🙌

Nice! Nicest classic examples are the Age of Love and Schöneberg right? Although they do it on the intro instead of the break

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Really cool EP and remix. I am sure I have heard this technique somewhere but can’t seem to remember in which track. Nevertheless, my suggestion today is “Keith Carnal - Endless”. If you love the classic “Ben Klock - Subzero” and to be honest who doesn’t, you will love this track. It basically follows the same scheme. Enjoy and till next time.

Ambiguity is cool, it’s a trick I use a lot. But something else that might even take a bit more courage is the plain ol’ off-time drop, i.e. the breakdown ends on something other than the bar line. The first time I ever heard it in electronic dance music was 808 State’s Cubik original mix (it happens at 0:58 and also at 1:48). It takes courage to stick something like this into your track, and you’ll piss off some DJs in the process, but it sure is exciting on the dancefloor. It makes your audience pay attention.

Check the track Monochrome by Covenant for a really good extended "where's the downbeat? there it is!" intro.

Nice oneee

please do one on making weird off sounding but really driving grooves, if you know what i mean :DD love from Prag

Nice bong

A perfect example of track tha use this technique is Astrix & Loud - Genetic Lottery. Play around 5:25 during the brake to see

A song that tricks me EVERYtime with this is: Barry White, "You're all I want", on the Love Unlimited Orchestra's Album "Music Maestro, Please!" 🤯 Look it up, and be baffled! 😅

Hello, Oscar! Thank you for simple simple yet cool trick! What do you think of LDS? What would you call this style/genre? :)

Reinier Zonnenveld & Space 92 Ravarp( Extended mix)

Great! Do you often play at the Fuse?

I have a compulsive disorder and because thet way my brain works I notice this happening when on a night out or listening to music, and it feels really abrasive to me and it feels more like a mistake. But I can't go to bed without checking that everything is turned off and the doors and windows are locked, and if I loose my train of thought, I have to start again until I know its done.

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Great Oscaaar as always ! But am I the only one to hear the bassline off tune ?

hey oscar, I recently made a plugin that lets you create MIDI sequences with odd subdivisions other than 2,3,4,16 etc. Was wondering if this is something you'd be interested in ... would definitely help with this technique! I'm hoping to get some people using it for free and get some exposure and hopefully make a career out of this stuff... please let me know if that interests you!

Fine in maybe one song in a set, but people get turned off by being proved wrong

The way this guy is making it between 4:30 and 4:50 is another brilliant example: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ltHt-POT80M.html

I observe how you struggle to find names for the different beats. In fact, if I consult wikipedia there is no terminology for the three levels of divisions (kick, snare, high-hats) of a bar divided into sixteenth notes and the positions resulting from this. Still the best approach is four times ti-ki-ta-ki to divide the bar. This is very surprising. The pairs on-beat/off-beat or down-beat/up-beat can only describe two levels. No surprise their use is always confusing. For example your usage of down-beat/up-beat already varies from the definition given in wikipedia.

Am I first, am I first?!

One of my greatest obstacles to learning music is how counter-intuitive it is that the terms try to describe audio events in terms of physical place: ie drops, builds, risers, bridges, hooks, etc.

X/Y/Secret let's go!!