Comments on: Animation: Musical Timing Rediscovered

By: Tyler Williams

Tyler Williams — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 18:27:21 +0000

I figured it out. After scrounging around on Hans Perk blog, I found a lot of really useful info. The posting about Al Molette describes what is going on beautifully. So each measure represents 24 frames and each measure contains 2-12, or (2) 12x beats. But that is only for a 2-12 beat. Then if you want a 2-14 beat, the measure equals 28 frames, or a 2-8 measure would equal 16 frames. Pretty sure I got it all down. That is why these don't directly translate into an x-sheet. You have to be aware that as the tempo changes the amount of frames the measure represents will change as well.

By: Tyler Williams

Tyler Williams — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 04:01:42 +0000

I’ve been looking at this and I have some questions.
I am just starting to learn Sibelius (a notation software) so I keyed in the notes for the first couple of scenes and played it out at 120 bpm. It turned out to be half the speed it should be. Then I thought, well there are 4 quarter notes a measure, and one measure is equal to a second, so (4 X 60=240) I set the bpm at 240 and it played at the right tempo.

I always read that a 12x beat is 120 bpm. Does that mean that the half beat and the beat equal half the measure. So each measure is
halfbeat-beat-halfbeat-beat.

I’m mostly wondering because I want to make my own score eventually for a short cartoon. Would I put the tempo to 240 bpm so that each measure is a second long, or would I drop it to 120 bpm so that each measure is 2 seconds long (for when I want to have a normal tempo 12x beat). After studying these sheets, it seems to be more simple to break each measure down into 24 frames.

By: Stephen Worth

Stephen Worth — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:09:52 +0000

All fixed. Thanks!

By: Hans Perk

Hans Perk — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 23:50:55 +0000

Please note that the original links in this posting from 2006 no longer point correctly to my blog, as I had to move it around a few years ago, and Blogger irritatingly added numbers to the links. The posting on Al Malotte is here, and Trader Mickey here. A lot of water passed under the bridge since August 2006. Since then, of particular interest for study was seeing the original barsheets of four classic Disney shorts applied to their video and audio, which can be found here.

By: Justin

Justin — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 23:15:43 +0000

Thanks for this post!
Yesterday the NFB posted a 15 minute clip from Luigi Allemano’s Making Music for Animation Masterclass:
http://blog.nfb.ca/2012/01/10/making-music-for-animation-a-masterclass-with-luigi-allemano/