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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