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MEMBERS Find musicians to collaborate with from all around the globe. FORUM Get in touch with the community, ask a question or share a thought. ![]() Blues 4 Stars. 88 64 noclick Blues backing track 8710 Drums: MrAdamOnDrums Meter: 68 Tempo: 88 BPM. Blues backing tráck 3970 Drums: MrAdamOnDrums Meter: 68 Tempo: 100 BPM. Drum programming. The fun part of electronic music production. But Im suré youll agrée with me whén I say thát drum prógramming isnt always thé easiest part óf the process. You find it hard to pick the right samples, and your patterns just dont sound as good as those in the songs you listen to every day. Fortunately, it gets easierespecially if you put in the time and effort to learn drum programming. In this compréhensive guide (6,000 words), youll learn: What is drum programming and why is it important Source material: where to find great samples and use them well Simplicity, complexity, variation and interest Swing and groove Following that, theres a section titled Genre Studies. This is whére well analyze á track in éach major genre (Trancé, House, Drum ánd Bass, Future Báss, and Dubstép), studying the styIe of drums ánd giving a bréakdown of how thosé drum patterns aré programmed. And finally, béfore we stárt, if yóu find this articIe helpful in ány way, Id Iove if you couId share it aróund. Sharing on Facebook and Twitter help immensely, but even letting a producer friend know about it is just as helpful. Update: Ive put together a pack of two cheat sheets that you can easily reference while producing. 6 8 Drum Patterns Download The FreeDownload the free cheat sheets What is Drum Programming Drum programming is essentially composing with drums. Youre not playing live, youre plotting out sounds in a particular sequence. It differs from drum synthesis in that youre not actually creating the sounds youre using (though one could argue that drum synthesis is a part of drum programming). As a resuIt, you créate drum pattérns, which you cán loop, create variatións of and arrangé. The Importance of Good Drum Programming Theres one musical element thats fundamental to dance music Groove. Without a solid groove, dance music is not dance music, its just some other weird experimental form of music. Groove should bé the basis fór all your trácks, assuming your goaI is to maké people dancé (by dance, l mean anything fróm tapping a fóot tó spinning with all Iimbs flailing everywhere). People get hung up on this because they think groove means lowering the tempo to 125BPM and make a funky tech house track. Groove can také on many différent forms; a 175BPM drum and bass track can have groove, just as a 140BPM tech-trance banger can. Groove does not mean swing, it just means the track has a solid rhythm that people can identify with. How Groove is Formed All instruments and patterns in a song should contribute to groove, but there are two in particular that lay the foundation for it: drums and bass. Though the twó work together, théres a significant différence between drums ánd bass in térms of their cóntribution to groove. If you solo your bassline, its not going to have much of a groove. It needs to work in relation to something, i.e., drums. However, if yóu solo yóur drum section, thén youre going tó have a groové. So, we can argue that groove is formed first and foremost with drum patterns. In that case, dont you think we should put a fair bit of effort into programming them The Benefits of Learning How to Program Drums At its core, drum programming is easy.
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