chord velocity

[Thebeatsmith]

how loud are chords usally in hiphop rap im aasking becuase im having a hard time some noticing the chord when there playing and when i play a chord on my keyboard inotice the sound of the three keys playing at once but not in other songs

 

[Timothy Allan]

loud enough to be heard, but not loud enough to drown out the mix.

Unless the song is all chords, then they can be as loud as your want.

 

[James McFadyen]

RnB Tracks don't usually have a pad bed.

If they do, they're not usually the same lush ones you find in dance tracks, consisting of layers timbre and tuning alterations.

RnB/Hip-Hop chords tend to sound more sterile, the reason being, I believe is that Rnb is very vocal-based and I guess many RnB artists don't want to distort the messgae....same with Rnb (Hip-Hop drums, they're not overly complex with fills every bar, just nice grooves with SUBTLE differences to create subtle contrast but not distract the groove or away from the vocal performance.

Just my thoughts.