[MUSIC] Let's now take a look at performing and
live looping some of these jump buttons that we have looked at.
So I have my drum kit ready over here.
[NOISE] These are the sounds I'm going to be using.
I have a bunch of buttons that are available.
They are not mapped to anything.
We're going to use those to instantiate the record feature in Ableton Live.
So let's see how we can do that.
Ableton Live has a session record button here.
I want to, let's say map it to this button here.
I'm going to click on Media over here.
This is a MIDI map mode switch.
Now I'm going to click on that session record button and just tap this button here.
[NOISE] If the mapping was successful,
we will see information over here.
So it says here Note C2 has been assigned to the session record button.
All right, so let's get out of MIDI map mode and test this out.
One important thing to consider is the launch quantization option here.
I've set it to one bar and we'll leave it at one bar.
So as soon as I hit that button,
[NOISE] you notice the metronome kicks in for a bar and then we start recording.
As soon as I'm done recording,
I'll hit that button again and it will play back whatever I just recorded.
All right. So let's do that.
But this time with actually playing.
[MUSIC]
So you will notice that I hit that session record button
right before we start the next cycle.
So I'll give you a shorter demonstration of the same thing.
So I'm going to select a second clip over here,
right below that first clip.
Again, this is our Record button.
[MUSIC]
So that's how you can live loop a drum pattern.
Now let's try this with playing a pattern and recording it in real time.
[MUSIC]
Now if you're having trouble playing the entire pattern in real time like this,
you can always break it down into individual elements.
So let's just have the kick drum coming first, perform that,
live loop that, then the snare,
the high hat and so on and so forth.
[MUSIC]
So again, hit that session record button to
start recording and right before the next down beat,
hit the button so it'll loop what we just played.
[MUSIC]
So this would be an easy way to perform
your entire drum pattern by playing it one element at a time.
[MUSIC]