Make Your Own Drumbeats From Scratch – The Video!
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 software. A lot of the videos out there are more like “hey watch how awesome I am” as they click through this and that and say “now I’m going to do this” but don’t really explain why or how. The thing is, all drum software is similar, they may call different things, but it all works in a very similar way. Once you’ve got that figured out, the problem is what makes a good beat? If you don’t really know what drum usually falls on beat one, or what drum keeps a constant pulse, then knowing how to use software won’t really help you.
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PingbackHey this video is awesome, it really helped me get going with coming up with drum parts(for a non-drummer). Especially liked to comments about how to make it sound more like an actual drummer. Looking forward to part deux.
Hey, thanks for the nice comment, at the moment I’m in the middle of February Writing Month, so I’m pretty busy. I’ve been thinking about chopping the videos up into smaller segments since Youtube won’t take anything longer than ten minutes. Anyway I’ll try to get some more stuff up.