How To Program Drum Grooves

everybody Emmerich Beato on today's everything music I'm going to show you how to program drum grooves I'm also going to teach you how to notate them as well so here's the deal being able to program drums is extremely important for a lot of reasons number one if you don't have a drummer available you can actually get by and record sessions with it as a matter of fact there's plenty country records that you've heard that have program drums all over them a lot of famous hit songs believe it or not I use program drums to do demos I use program drums to play along with to do background tracks it's really a handy skill to have so let's get started first thing I like to do I open up my session in this particular session I'm going to be using superior drums it's made by the company tune track which also makes ez drummer 1 & 2 when I program drums I like to do them this way I take the drum track on a stereo audio track in Pro Tools and then I use 2 MIDI tracks and the reason I do this is because I put the cymbals on their own track and I put the rest of the drums on its own track and the reason I do this is because many times when you're working an arrangement and you want it to sound like a real drummer you have to finesse the hi-hat that's the thing that really makes it sound real is the hi-hat the velocity so and I'll be adjusting the velocities on those also if I want to change if I want to say oh maybe in the last four bars here it needs to go to a more open hi-hat or something if I'm going to a chorus really depends on what kind of track I'm doing I'm going to show you some basic rock drum patterns and I'll show you some shuffles too if you're notating a hip-hop drum bard if you come up with an idea and you want to write it down you use the exact same process this is a drum notation legend that you'll need to read the drum patterns are programmed I'll put a PDF of it in the description ok so let's start with this first group the first groove is a basic rock pattern it's a simple eighth note hi-hat pattern with a kick on one and three and the snare on two and four it's the same pattern is back in black so I'm going to play it I'm going to start it off one and I'm do the hi-hat first and now one of the reasons I did accents like that it's to make it sound more real one of the main reasons that I put the symbols on their own mini track is because of things like the hi-hat and a ride this is where your dynamics come into place you don't hit a hi-hat typically like this we have all the same velocity when you're playing a beat if you're playing a basic rock beat diet is going it's hitting in different spots that had different tones every place it hits and it has different accents you can exit at all different ways that's what's going to make your drum son realistic it's paying special attention to the Hyatt and the ride cymbal so that will give you a lot more control over those patterns by having them on their own MIDI track and you can keep fine-tuning them as you go since I'm only using eighth notes in this I'm going to use the eighth notes subdivision in the grid so now that I put this down I'm going to go through and I'm actually going to quantize it I'll tell you what I'm going to quantize it I'm going to quantize it because I want to be able to line these up since I'm going to use this for demo purposes so I'm going to use the eighth note quantize I'm going to apply and it will put everything right on grid I was pretty on the click before but I want it to be dead-on because I'm going to use this for demo purposes now I'm going to open up my second MIDI track put it in record I'm going to do the kick and snare at the same time so here's the kick here's the snare okay I'm going to put those on two and four it's going to sound like this two three four I'm going to quickly go to here highlight quantize boom done and here's my beat [Music] that's pattern number one okay pattern tune is going to be a variation of pattern one this is the we will rock you pattern do that doo doo da kick snare kick kick snare it's going to have the same eighth note pattern so I'm going to program that first two three four okay I'm going to go in I'm going to quantize it and then I'm going to play the drum part two three four and I quantize that that's pattern to pattern three is based off a sixteenth note it's got a sixteenth note snare kick that you have on the second beat so it's going to be dead-on so they don't do debt on Dedham doing that on kick kick snare kick snare kick kick snare kick snare okay let's get eight notes nyeh so we're inflate like this now I'm going to do the kick and snare it's going to be like this I'll play it for you that's the pattern now I'm going to change the quantization value on the kick and snare to sixteenth notes as I have sixteenth notes in it and it sounds like this the next pattern I'm going to do I'm actually just copying the Hyatt over because once again it's an eighth note hi-hat pattern but it's the immigrant song patterns like doo-doo-doo doo-doo-doo-doo data Odette okay play and it sounds like this [Music] okay pattern five is kind of your typical Pearl Jam type drum pattern or Jimi Hendrix or whatever it's more of like a fun pattern doomed haddad and goon dad - doom - Dada doom go do that okay so it's got that little demo later so listen the next pattern has a sixteenth Myatt so i'm going to slow way down since i can't move my finger that fast that's it this particular hi-hat part has a few different accents in it essentially every time the kick hits there's an accident on the hyatt as well so i'm going to go in and put the accent okay now I'm going to do something a little different I'm actually get a hand to program this next part with the kick and snare so I have a kick on the downbeat and I have a snare on the AH so it's kick eat and uh with the snare and I have the kick on the end of two I'm going to move that over I made the pattern double the length because I want to put in an open hi-hat accent now typically you'll have open I had accents in the middle of a phrase usually on the last sixteenth note or last eighth note if it's sixteenth note pattern a lot of times it'll be on their last sixteenth but they thought pattern B it'll be in the last eighth note that opens and then closes so listen sounds like this the next pattern is a typical like a funky pattern but you'd hear it on the Pearl Jam record the first Pearl Jam record ten years a lot doomed good dad don't but boom death but boom the bat boom boom pow okay so let's do it like this the next couple patterns are going to be shuffles now differently shuffles are done with a hi-hat pattern based off a triplet so it's it's quarter note eighth note triplet that said dot dot dot okay so I've made my grid into triplets triplet eighth notes so I'm going to play along with it here we go now I'm going to play the kick and snare pattern to the I app usually what I'll do is I will take down the volume by hand of the kick drum before each downbeat so it gives it more feel so it's more human listen all these little field things by adjusting those velocities bring in different samples and we'll make it sound more realistic the last tune I'm programming is the beat from Rosanna by toto which is a variation on the pretty shuffle essentially it's the same eighth note triplet hi-hat pattern that we've had a little grace note right there that's a very classic shuffle feel that's all for now please subscribe here to my everything music YouTube channel and if you're interested in the Beato book you can write me a trick piatto number 1 at gmail.com thanks for watching you

Channel: Rick Beato

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Keywords: Drum, Programming, Grooves, Drumming, Drums, Drumkit, Production, Sequencing, Rock, Pop, Hip-Hop, Pro Tools, DAW, Music, Composition, Rick Beato, Everything Music, Superior Drummer, Drumset, Kick, Snare, Hat

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Length: 10min 31sec (631 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 08 2017