Drum Programming Masterclass: COMPLETE (Parts 1, 2, and 3)

U1: Introduction

• Welcome & Introduction
• About Me
• Tools (I'm going to be using Ableton Live, but any audio program will work!)

U2: Working with Beats on the Grid

• Making Beats in Your Audio Sequencer
• Making Beats with the MIDI Grid

U3: Reading the Timeline

• The Bar
• The Beat (Or Pulse)
• The 8th and 16th
• Meter
• Counting Bars
• Reading Drum Patterns

U4: Elements of the Drum Pattern

• The 3 Essentials
• Percussion
• More Cymbals
• Other Sounds
• Where to find good drum samples (for free!)

U5: What We Look for in a Drum Pattern

• Building a Groove
• Variation
• Modulation
• Simplicity & Genre
• Feel (Swing)

U6: The Basic Pattern

• What the Basic Pattern is
• The Basic Pattern
• Adding Off-Beats
• The Importance of Tempo

U7: Building on the Basic Pattern

• Dynamics
• Adding Variation with Percussion
• Syncopation
• Swing
• Humanism

U8: Genre 1, Programming a House Beat

• About Genres
• Finding Our Sounds
• The Basics of a House Beat
• Adding More Elements
• Dynamics!
• Analysis, Sam Paganini, Satellite

U9: Analysis, Daft Punk

• Finding the Right Sounds
• Building the Pattern
• Swing Elements

U10: Wrap Up (Part 1)

• What Next?
• Thanks for Watching! Stick around for Part 2!

U11: Introduction, Part 2!

• Welcome to Part 2!
• About Me
• Tools (I'm going to be using Ableton Live, but any audio program will work!)
• Review, How to read rhythms on the grid
• Review, The Basic Beat

U12: Working with Samplers

• Why work with samplers?
• Hardware drum machines
• The basic outline of a Sampler (in Ableton Live)
• The Basic outline of a Sampler (in Logic Pro)

U13: Working on the MIDI Grid

• Advantages of MIDI
• Note On/Off
• Velocity
• Setting up a MIDI Track

U14: Genre Study, Drum and Bass

• Back to the basic beat
• A Drum and Bass "basic" Pattern
• Analysis, John B - Up All Night
• Analysis, Sub Focus - X-Ray
• Analysis, Konflict - The Beckoning

U15: Performance and Humanization

• Playing It In
• Quantization and Settings
• Controllers
• Recording Controllers
• Ableton's Groove Settings

U16: Genre Study, Dubstep

• The basics of Dubstep
• Analysis, Skrillex - Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites
• Analysis, Flux Pavillion - I Can't Stop
• Analysis, The Drop Section of Flux Pavillion

U17: Using Effects

• Adding Some Life with Effects
• Filtering
• Delay Effects
• Reversed Sounds
• Pitch Shifting

U18: Genre Study, Trap

• The basics of Trap
• Analysis, Turn Up - Gent and Jawns
• Analysis, The Drop - Bro Safari

U19: Dynamic Effects

• What are dynamic effects?
• Ghost Notes
• Noise Risers
• Volume for Variation

U20: Wrap Up (Part 2)

• What Comes next?
• Thanks and Bye! (Stick around for Part 3!)

U21: Welcome to Part 3!

• Introduction, Part 3
• Tools (I'm going to be using Ableton Live, but any audio program will work!)
• Review, How to read rhythms on the grid
• Review, Counting Rhythms

U22: Programming Beats to a Track

• Finding the Beat
• Getting Intimate with the Bassline
• Make Sure Your Swing Matches (or dont?)
• Side Chaining, Finding Great Rhythms We Can Use In the Track
• Experiment!
• Just for Fun, Experimenting with other Beats

U23: Genre Study, Hip Hop

• The Basics of Hip Hop
• Analysis, Nothin' But a G Thang (Snoop Dog, Dre. Dr)
• Analysis, Lose Yourself (Eminem)
• Analysis, Skeleton Key (Dessa)

U24: Transition and the Beat

• The Breath
• Subtract Before You Add
• Transition Experiments
• Fills

U25: Genre Study, Footwork

• The Basics of Footwork
• Analysis, High Life (Boylan)
• Analysis, 114799 (DJ Slugo)

U26: Pitch and Drums

• Tuning Kick Drums
• Melodic Percussion
• Mixing, Bass and Kick Clashes
• Frequency Space and Drums

U27: Genre Study, Funk

• Analysis, Cissy Strut (The Meters)
• Analysis, Cold Sweat (James Brown)
• Analysis, Sexy MF (Prince)
• Analysis, Amen Brother (The Winstons)
• The Amen Break

U28: Drum Glitch Plugins

• Overview of Glitch Techniques
• Fracture (Glitchmachines)
• Hysteresis (Glitchmachines)
• Stutter Edit (Izotope)

U29: Wrap Up

• What comes next?
• Thanks and bye!

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