Drum Programming For People Who Hate Drum Programming
What you'll learn
- Learn how to create MIDI drum beats that sound like a real drummer played them without any prior drum programming experience.
- Learn how to program beats in a variety of feels ranging from straight and swing time, to halftime and shuffle feels.
- Learn how to program beats in a variety of styles ranging from Pop, to Rock, to Metal, and everything in between.
- Learn how to create realistic sounding drum fills, hi hats, ride and crash/splash cymbals.
- Learn how to create realistic sounding ghost notes on a snare drum.
- Learn how to self produce your drum tracks to keep your songs from sounding boring.
- Learn how to recycle old beats to create new ones. Saving hours of studio time.
- Included are free downloads of each drum beat I compose along with a free songwriting template for you to practice with
- And much more...
Requirements
- No programming experience needed. You will learn everything you'll need to know.
- Required: Laptop or desktop computer
- Required: Logic Pro X or GarageBand (On a Mac) or any digital audio workstation (DAW) of your choosing.
- Optional: A drum sampler plugin. In this course I create beats using everything from the stock "drummer" function in logic to Ez Drummer 2 & 3, to Ugritone Drum Samplers
- Optional: MIDI keyboard. I will be using the QWERTY keyboard for any examples I program completely from scratch but you may find it easier to follow along with an external MIDI controller.
Description
If you're just starting out with programming drums but you find it to be intimidating or if you've been doing it for a little while but are not a drummer yourself and find the process to be tedious and time consuming, I'm going to fix all of that for your right now.
Get instant lifetime access and learn the following…
How to program drums from scratch that actually sound real in genres ranging from Rock, to Metal to Pop.
How to program beats in a variety of time signatures ranging from 4/4 to 6/8
How to program beats in a variety of feels ranging from straight and swing time, to halftime and shuffle feels
How to create realistic sounding drum fills, hi hats, ride cymbals, and ghost notes.
How to work with pre-existing MIDI drum grooves to create your own patterns while retaining the human feel of a real drummer and saving tons of time.
How to create musical tension and dynamics in a song solely by changing the drums
How to create a set and forget workflow to keep you in the creative mindset without worrying about the technical aspects of recording
How to self produce your own musical ideas for your band, your songwriting team, or your own solo projects
How to take the knowledge found inside the course to start a side gig as a drum programmer for hire
FREE DRUM MIDI - Included are free downloads of each drum beat I compose along with a free songwriting template for you to practice with
WARNING!
I'm using Logic Pro X as my digital audio workstation (D.A.W) so some key commands and terminology may not apply to you if you're using a different program (Pro Tools, Ableton, Reaper, Cubase etc.) but the core concepts and strategies implemented inside the course apply to any and all digital audio workstations.
Who this course is for:
- If you're just starting out with programming drums but you find it to be intimidating or if you've been doing it for a little while but are not a drummer yourself and find the process to be tedious and time consuming, I'm going to fix all of that for your right now.
Instructor
- 4.5 Instructor Rating
- 17 Reviews
- 137 Students
- 3 Courses
Aaron Cloutier is a musician, composer, multi-instrumentalist, producer and educator.
For the last 20 years, Aaron has dedicated his life to his professional musical pursuits and has refined his expertise in the Metal, Rock, and Pop genres.
Beginning as a guitar player at the age of 16 with roots in Thrash Metal, Aaron has expanded his playing to adopt influences from Jazz, Folk,Progressive Rock, Classic Rock as well as elements of Shred and even World music.
After one year of private music lessons, Aaron’s pursuits led him to study songwriting, singing and audio production. The end result being a 15 song demo under the name "DAVOLA".
By this time, Aaron was teaching guitar privately and honing his guitar, vocal, songwriting, and production skills on his various projects both personal as well as collaborative before deciding to further his education.
In the summer of 2009, Aaron relocated to Arizona and attended the Conservatory of Recording Arts and Sciences to study music production and audio engineering.
Upon graduation, Aaron had the privilege of assisting on "Dead New World" (Victory Records). The 2010 release from Latin Metal band Ill Nino where he handled recording duties for 90% of the vocals for the project. Earning him an assistant engineer credit on a record released worldwide in the process.
Since the release of "Dead New World”, Aaron has spent the last 10 years as a Guitar and Vocal instructor for School of Rock both in New Jersey and Kentucky respectively and continues to teach privately to this day.
When he is not teaching or composing his own music, Aaron works as a hired gun collaborating with various musicians from all over the world ranging from independent artists and producers to music companies the likes of Korora Audio, Redwirez and Ugritone. He even had a chance to work with world renowned actor Sir Christopher Lee. Aaron lives for the creative process and continues to compose on a near daily basis.