I'll be capitalising letters that need to be accented, or played louder.īefore you begin you need a collection of drum sounds. Incidentally if you're going to try playing these beats on a real drum kit, those are the only essential pieces of the kit that you need to play these beats. As such, I'll be using a few basic symbols: b for bass drum, h for hi-hat (o for open hi-hat), and s for snare. This is so you can start with the basic beats, and them embellish them with other sounds, rhythms, etc. I'll be posting here using the absolute minimal collection of sounds I use to capture the feel of certain types of drum beats.
#BASIC DRUM BEATS TO BUILD OFF OF HOW TO#
Otherwise, scroll down to "Getting Started" to learn how to make your own beats. You can also use the app to try out some of the beats shown in this tutorial.
#BASIC DRUM BEATS TO BUILD OFF OF FREE#
If you're just looking for a quick way to get royalty free hip hop or rap beats, check out my app Beat Generator. If you want to write four-on-the-floor beats instead you can summarise it as follows: "boom-tick-boom-tick", repeat, play around with the swing distance between boom and tick. So I'll be focussing mainly on the spectrum between hip hop through dubstep and garage to drum and bass. I should start by saying that I totally abhor 4-on-the-floor house beats. This is just my personal take on how to write beats, and I probably get lots of stuff technically incorrect! So use it as a starting point if you're new to writing beats if you like.
I thought I'd write down my experiences here hopefully they'll be useful for someone else too. Because I've been making electronic music for a while now, a couple of friends who are giving it a shot were asking me about my techniques for writing drum beats from scratch.
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