3 Different Ways to Create Dilla's Drunk Drum Groove | Ableton Live 10

what is up gang and welcome to another episode of inspire by in this series we look at the musical trends past and present to understand the techniques used so that you guys can make better music my name's will and i release a plethora of music under the moniker hush child today's video has been much requested and we're looking at the beats behind j dilla [Music] today i'm going to show you three different ways that you can achieve that famous j dilla swing the first step is going to be for those people that enjoy recording it in live whether that be with the qwerty keyboard or a midi device like your keyboard or an akkai mpd step two is going to be for those people that prefer to draw in their midi lines i'm going to show you just how you can get that swing offbeat kind of lazy feel and finally step three is going to be the sample method whether it be sampling from a piece of vinyl or off of a platform like splice i'm going to show you just how to chop your beat up so again you attain that lazy dilla feel if you enjoyed this episode guys maybe learned something new make sure to give it a like and right now only eighty percent of my audience are currently subscribed so just double check drop down there give me a subscribe and whilst you're there hit that bell icon so you get notified when a new video goes out now of course today we're only focusing on the drum side of things so if you want to see more dilla videos in future or have an idea for a future episode leave a comment in the dungeon down below let's jump into it all right let me put the magic specs on now that shouldn't be getting any crazy reflections in there the headphones on so i can hear if you're wondering what this is uh it's a music stand that has the bird's eye view camera duct tape to it so i could get an angle there's no smoke and mirrors here and i think it goes without saying in this video you know there's a high bar to me jay diller is a legend and before him it's arguable that nobody was doing it the way he was and since him there's been many educators that have taught similar methods in replicating his sound i am just one of many and if this video doesn't suit your needs um there's a bunch of other educators online that can give you other methods to record in that j dilla sound but since you're here let's jump into it so over here to my left i've got the mpd and i'm going to use that as a drum rack controller in ableton and i've just got three sounds in there i'm using the soundsmiths low fire sample pack they often sponsor these videos and they help out the channel a great deal so make sure you check them out at soundsmiths.co.uk or head to splice and type in soundsmiths i've just got a kick snare layer and a hi-hat in here so this is enough to just get a basic groove going now what we're used to is either drum in a real rigid layer [Music] or the first thing that we learn when we're trying to beatbox is that boots and cats method okay so boots and cats and boots and cats and boots and cats but they're both quite rigid in their performance and generally quite boring when i create a groove i want something to sound good with just the click alone so for this example what we're trying to get down is first getting used to playing swung higher hats the second thing that we need to learn is the art of the flam so if you're not familiar with a flam it's when a ghost note is played just a little bit ahead of a full quarter note so if we were to hit the snare again we would have this quiet note first and then we would have this big explosive accent so in terms of playing it on the snare and the hi-hat we get this instead of together so that just adds a little bit more flavor add that to your hi-hat and you're there [Music] that adds a nice bit of groove there it adds some lazy backbeat and it's really the fundamentals of having the j dilla groove it's my favorite way to record and that's why i wanted to show you that method first if you watch nothing else you've got that down but i understand a lot of viewers they don't like to perform in they're not as confident or comfortable some people prefer to draw it in so let me show you this method what we're going to do is we're going to highlight a region right click and choose insert midi clip i'm going to draw just a simple kick snare kick snare and we're going to make sure that my grid is set to 16th notes this is the septuplet method this has been covered in other youtube videos before but it's a really great way to gauge how your rhythm is going to sit within this melodic section so as i said right click set your grid to 16th notes and then what you're going to do is draw in eight notes so we're just going to draw these in and then command d that will copy those up now if you highlight these regions what we get is a little arrow a little node that appears here and you're able to extend or shorten these notes what we're going to do is we're just gonna squash them back up here and you can see that it fits to the grid now what we've got is one two three four five six seven notes within this region here so to get that swing what i want you to do is just delete that eighth note and we're gonna delete the three notes that follow the first one two and three and then we're gonna delete the two notes that follow this second note here one two so we're just left with that and then from there you can again copy these up command d boop boop boop now what we get is this fill [Music] which is really really great we've already got that swing now you can leave it like this it is still quite robotic but [Music] it's way better than having this set to the grids on maybe eighth notes [Music] that's a little bit tiring this has got a little bit more groove to it if you wanted to replicate what i just did in performing it live then all you have to do is add a little bit of a flam with the snare and maybe just create a little bit of humanization with the fourth high hat here so we can move this off a little bit maybe we can move this one forward a little bit now we get this [Music] it's entirely up to you where you want that snare to land sometimes it's nice to have the second one on the grid and the hi-hat a little bit late and the first one a little bit early so you get this really push and pull motion of the drums becoming a little bit late and then catching up with the b like you haven't totally fixed the drum sample to the grid and that can be really really nice and effective now for the third and final example i've used three degrees maybe and this was used in j dilla's higher record so this is how i've i've pitched it like i said i've pitched it down a little bit i don't want to get a copyright strike first things first when you drag your sample into ableton it might be off the grid as it is here a really quick way to get your track on the grid is to double click on it and find this transpose button and you're just going to transpose until you find that it kind of meets up with what's on the grid and it might just be a little bit off it might look like this but it's close what you can do once you use the transpose function is you can use the detune by sense function and just pull it until it really does line up with everything on the grid then what you can do is hit warp reset transpose reset the detune function everything is sitting on the grid and it's in its original key as well so now what we're going to do is press shift command t the same way you would open up a brand new midi track and what we're going to do is drag this sample into simpler here we're going to do it by slices and we're going to slice it by region now if it's a short 2 bar sample then you're going to want to split this up by 8 regions this is 4 bars so i'm going to split it up by 16 regions now bear in mind this technique only works with a 6 8 groove or a 3 4 groove to get that j dilla swing so you're converting something that sounds like a warts into something that sounds like a lazy 4 4 groove i'm not saying that you can't do it in 4 4 just to get this same example that dilla used on high you're going to want to do it with a 3 4 or 6 8 field so the original record sounded like this 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 four five six one two three four five six one two three four five six now it's really important to remember that the kick is landed on the one and the snare is landed on the four what you should see when you drag it into simpler and you separate it like i said if it's two bars separated by eight regions if it's four bars your sample separate it by 16 regions and you're going to see that you have a division on the kick a hi-hat a snare and then before another hi-hat so this is really important because it means all your kicks are going to be down on the left-hand side and all your snares are going to be down in the middle here and everything else is melodies or hi-hats so this is great so we can play the original tune one two three four five six one two three four five six but we can jump from that six eight groove into our 4 4 which is a really nice flip or we can just start the track from that 4 4 groove so to do that we're just going to speed the groove up a little bit and just play kick snare kick snare throughout our pads [Music] so they're the three methods that i utilize performing it in live drawing it in via midi and then sampling a record itself as always guys let me know in the dungeon below which method you prefer to use is it drawing it in is it performing it in live or was there something i missed if there's an opportunity for me to learn i would absolutely love to know and have a conversation with you above all else i hope you're feeling inspired to maybe make something new today so there we have it guys three ways in which you can achieve the dilla swing a quick question for you guys obviously this episode was just aimed around the drums we didn't perform a whole track is that something that you'd like to see in future episodes whether it be a step-by-step guide or looking at just the intricacies of another artist do let me know because i'd be greatly intrigued as always if you head to patreon.com forward slash the will hatton you can download my new low fire effects rack which a lot of the community have been enjoying because it recreates some of the effects found on the sp404 and generates that vinyl noise and pitch warp that you'll often need to like resample yourself if you do sign up to the patron of course there's a few different tiers whether it be sample packs you just want access to any of the projects we've looked at in previous videos or you want to book a one-to-one session via zoom where we talk about production in a little bit more detail find something there that suits you however if that's not for you make sure you check out the description below you can find all my socials and our discord where you'll also have access to an amazing community of like-minded individuals that are also making tracks along with us i hope you enjoyed this episode guys as always i'll see you next time [Music] [Applause] [Music] you

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Length: 12min 24sec (744 seconds)

Published: Tue Jan 26 2021