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43Drum Beats
Te ollowing is a diagram o where o locae specific sounds on he
MIDI keyboard or each
drum bea.
Assignment:
Record he drum beas below ino he sofware, one rack a a ime. I
possible, record all our
measures o each rack wihou sopping. Do no copy and pase or loop.
I you have o sop,
jus sar he recording where you lef off.
Procedure:
1. Open a new file by choosing File > New.
2. Save he file as Drum Beas _ _ (your wo iniials).
Do the following procedure in the same file for each of the drum
beats given
below.
3. Add hree sofware insrumen racks and choose drum sounds
appropriae or he syle
you will be re-creaing (echno, rock, hip-hop, ec.).
4. Se he meronome o wha is comorable o record as close o he
click as possible beween
8095.
5. Record each par on a separae drum rack.
6. Record as close o he meronome click as possible.
7. Record our measures a a ime wihou sopping.8. Do no copy and
pase or loop measures.
9. Quanize each rack beore recording he nex rack. I you play
quarer noes, quanize o
he 1/4 noe. I you play eighh noes, quanize o he 1/8 noe. I you
play sixeenh noes,
quanize o he 1/16 noe.
Basic Techno Beat:
Tis is a very basic drum bea uilizing quarers and eighhs. Te
variaion in he hi-ha, using
an open sound or splash (B ) on he upbeas, adds a nice color o
he groove. Record each
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par a 8095 o be as close o he meronome click as possible, bu
play back he drum se
patern/syle a a echno empo o 126144.
I your original drums sounded like echno (elecronic) drums,
change he drum se o a rock
ki and slow he playback empo o 116. Now you have a disco bea rom
he 1970s!
Basic Rock Beat:
Choose hree accousic drum kis like a rock ki. Record a 8090 bu
play back he bea a
104116.
Rock Beat Variation:
I you leave ou he cymbal patern, his is he basic bea o he Queen
song We Will Rock
You. You may wan o se he meronome o 7080 o record he cymbals.
Playback empo
is 7292.
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Basic Hip-Hop:
Choose hip-hop, 808 or 809 drums, i you have hem. Record he
cymbal par firs. When you
record he bass drum, aim or he eighhs in he cymbal. Playback
empo is 8898.
Slow Hip-Hop:
Tis is he same as he Rock Bea variaion, excep he firs bea
inroduces sixeenh noes in
he bass drum. Record he cymbal par firs a a empo o 7080. When
you record he bass
drum, lisen o he sixeenh noes in he hi-ha. Te firs wo measures o
he bass drum parare writen wih sixeenh noes and ress, so you can
see each o he our sixeenh noes o he
bea. Te second wo measures show he radiional way o noae his
figure. Playback empo
is 7692.
Advanced Hip-Hop:
Tis is prety sophisicaed suff. Se he meronome o 7080 o record he
cymbal par firs.
Playback empo is 8898.
