Movement: Part 3 – Hands On Creating Drum Loops and First Look at Hardware

In the last lesson, you learned about the 4 stages of creating a drum loop and the 3 most popular methods producers use to create them.

In this lesson, I will guide you through creating your first drum loops without even needing to open up your DAW!

Table of Contents

1:20 – Getting Started

2:00 – Basic Rhythms

6:25 – Class Assignment

7:11 – Create the Rhythm First, Then Swap Samples in and out

8:08 – The Difference Between Acoustic & Digital Samples

9:15 – Mixing Acoustic & Electronic Samples to Widen the Mix

9:40 – “Jamming” With Hardware

10:00 – The Importance of Having Fun And the 60/40 Rule

10:54 – Workflow

12:22 – 4 on the Floor

13:23 – What Does it Mean to “Spit Bars”

14:44 – Typical Drum Rhythms by Genre

16:00 – Modeling Drum Rhythms After Popular Songs

16:53 – The Rhythm of Melody

17:52 – Piano Roll Experimentation

18:16 – What are “Modes?”

19:29 – Combining Drum Rhythms With Melody Rhythms

22:33 – Examples of Hardware You Can Use to Create Beats / Melodies

27:45 – How to Create Entire Songs Without a DAW

29:10 – Why I Don’t Recommend Modular Synths as Your Only Source of Audio

30:22 – What Hardware do I Use Right Now?

32:18 – Examples of Software Samplers

35:55 – Example of the Beat You Will be Making in the Next Lesson!

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