If you want to try out some drum beats from scratch but don’t have any software, there are some web pages that allow you to make some beats of your own.  Granted you’ll only be able to do drums - not bass, string pads, chords, etc, just drums.  You’ll also need to know how to [...]

The ddrum d2 Review: A Good Starter Kit For the Money.
The d2 is a solid quality drum set for under $400 ($350 in some places), and with a little tweaking it could be even better.  I just got one of these sets and I’m impressed by the quality for the price.  If you’re looking for [...]

What I’ve Done is a fairly simple song as far as drums go, it’s only got a few fills to speak of, and the basic groove only gets minor variations. The drums start with hi hat and a stick tapping on a stand, I didn’t add that part in my loops at the bottom of [...]

  This drum video covers:

How the bass, snare and hi hats work.
Using syncopation to drive the beat ahead.
How to “humanize” the beat, so that it doesn’t sound like  a machine.

This video is a companion to the two articles on Making Your Own Drumbeats From Scratch, Part 1 and Part 2.I’m Using Garageband but the techniques could work for any [...]

Watch the Drum Beat Video!

In part one we took a quick look at which beat the main drums (bass drum, snare, hi-hat) played on.  We only used one note per beat, so it didn’t leave much room for variety.  So let’s take the hi-hat and play two notes per beat.  We now have 8 notes [...]