How to drum Programming
How To Program Drum Grooves
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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
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