hello my guys what's good welcome back to another video i hope everyone is doing wow in today's
video by popular press by you guys through the discord through the youtube community tab we're
going to be doing a kind of simplified version of crap drum bounce like i don't know why you guys
are asking me to do this plenty of other people have done it but we're going to do it anyway i'm
going to make it pretty concise explain it in a simple form then add some variation to it and
then add some more kind of advanced variation so there'll be three stages to it you can take from
it like if you're a beginner right at the start you can take all the basic information from there
you're in the middle you can kind of take some of the more simple effects and things we're doing and
then if you're a little bit more advanced there might be a couple of things for you to pick up
in terms of the different controls you can affect so yeah that's what we're getting into in today's
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guys so like i said we're gonna have everything in three stages so the first stage i want to take you
through is just kind of beginner friendly like if you need catching up with how to do drums if
you've never done them before you're rusty i'm going to show you a basic kind of pattern so
everything we've got here is in an eight bar section i'm going to start getting stuff down so
we're going to start with the claps and what you want to do is put it on the third here and you'd
also put it on the 7th but we're going to use the advanced looping feature to save time for this
specific element because this specific element normally stays the same so we go advanced looping
set to next bar set to next bar and already you'll hear we've got some drums here's the tempo
so we've already started there next up we've got hi-hat so i want to take
this hi-hat and we want to go fill each two steps and then set this to next bar
so normally i'll put this on 32 and what i'll do is i'll create some variation which we'll go on to
a little bit later so this is what i would normally do like that and you can also just
press alt r to create some variation on the velocity there so now the pattern sounds like this
you can experiment with the out on your hi-hat like that
and then what you could do here we have an open hat
and all you want to do here is you can fill every eight steps for example
so this is a really simple bounce but this is a good way to get your beat started so
now after the open hat you want to add a precursive element really simple
um and you could put it somewhere like this and put this on 32 for example
simple then we can come in with a kick here so a good pattern for this might be
so that's a nice really simple pattern so now we
can take that and actually just put a sample over it like this
sounds nice and all but what could we do to add some variety so my whole thing is going to be now
is where can we take this from here so i would then go in here and just start adjusting a few
of those elements that i showed you so for example you could add rolls in the hi-hats in some roles
so already that's already starting to create a little bit of a different
bounce so now for example we create an additional bounce with the claps
right here so what we could do is do something like this
and instead of the open hats being like that we could then
start affecting the velocity and then also the pitch so we could go down an octave for this one
we could go up a few 100 cents for this one
so it's the same thing but we're just adding changes to it from there as well with the kick
you could just basically have some more abrupt sort of uh parts to it
so that's an example for number two so for the base to keep it simple in the first
in the first pan we would probably do something like let's just find out what key it's in so we
know this what this sample for example is an a sharp minor so basically yeah if you wanted
to do a simple bass pattern we know it's in a shot so we'll probably start on the root note
and then we'd probably go up an octave and do something like this
so that's like a really good and simple 808 pan that you could use for the first one and
for the second one we would just take that and then we would just create some variation
around it so it would probably be something more like this like you could do like a
and also one thing i need to mention as well is make sure you've cut the 808 like that
so it's not overlapping because it was just overlapping it doesn't sound very nice sounds
really unprofessional and also you can set up your envelope like this this means pretty
much the tail end of the sample after the midis kind of stopped playing won't continue so yeah
that's what i would have done for pattern one anyway and then this is pattern two obviously
then i would end up changing some octaves something like this so it'd be like
for example that second one didn't work
so we can change this up a little bit here
that's a perfect example of how we do the second pattern so it's similar
we've got a bit more bounce and then finally let's go into
the final pattern i'm going to show you i'm going to show you some extra effects
and techniques you can do in this one so for example when we're in the hi-hats we can just
go into these controls in the bottom corner here hit find pitch so with these slides instead i'm
going to slide them like that we could slide this one's pitch just as easy as this so look
and that same principle applies to all the other controls so
we could go into pan for example and then just pan across like that
and then also say for example so now we're going to send these to the mixed tracks
extra effects you can do on these drums to make them better so with this clap one clap
that we're using they're both hitting at the same time on the third and seventh beat one of
them we can add reverb too this is gonna add like an echo to the to the clap zone
already we've got something pretty nice there so also something else we can do hi hats
um if you want to make them really unique make sure you go and check out go check out cable
guys because i'm using their shaper box here it's a really good plug and i think they actually have
a free trial to you can just check the link in the description if you're interested but
this one's really good for hi-hats like i like reverse effect hi-hat so
i use the reverse section so i'll do something like this to my hats
and the effects don't really stop at you know time shifting
we can do filters drive crush pan volume width noise it has a lot of options so
i'm going to show you another one as well we can do for example we'll use a stutter here
so again you know you're adding more to it and then another thing i would say with like
the 808 for example is really try and get some kind of textured like subtle
velocity rolls and stuff because that that can really add that can be good but it could
also be bad depending on the way you do it so oh don't do that for example so control you there
so already that's not too bad let's just stack of the velocities like that
so yeah with the kick for example something i personally like to do is i use i heart ny um
my baby audio for the parallel compressor so this is the saw setting i like to have it on
and this just really makes my kicks punch through
and then one final thing i want to go over for your beast this
isn't directly to do with the drums but this is
eq so when you eq a melody for me like i think a good thing you can do is automate the eq
off when there's no drums so then the melody has a bit more life and is a bit louder when there's
less things going on so i really like to do this you can just do it say where your samples kept
i would right click here create automation clip then as this plays for example we want the eq off
here so we would do this right click to create a new point right click to create that point
so it's almost seamless the loudness doesn't really change too much between the melody and very
loud and then cutting down and then the drums come in it kind of subsidizes that so i think that's
also a really good tip when it comes to like doing your drums and stuff so um one final thing i want
to add as well like say once you've split these uh channels up because you can just like split them
once you've created patterns like split by channel and have them all out here and then kind of take
stuff away one thing i definitely recommend every so often is making a break like this
it's just like really important so uh yeah i hope you guys enjoyed this video so my guys that's into
the video hope you guys enjoyed this one hopefully that answers your questions when it comes to
trap drums try to keep it pretty simple but also informative so you guys can kind of just see how i
do it hopefully follow along hopefully you picked up some gems for your beats but that is pretty
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you lot if any of you guys wanted to check out the sounds i was using in this video the majority
of them came from either the phantom drunk or the gemini drum kit which isn't out yet so the phantom
drum kit is linked in the description so uh yeah and if you want to check out any of my kits first
links in description some free resources too i'll catch you guys in the next one
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