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Foundational Drum Loop Basics - [Create Powerful Drum Loops]
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Foundational Drum Loop Basics - [Create Powerful Drum Loops]

Create the Drum Loops You've Always Wanted Others to Hear.
Created byRiley Weller
Last updated 6/2019
English

What you'll learn

  • Create Drum Loops which are FRESH and ENGAGING
  • Take Advantage of the Foundational Basics Available when Creating Drum Loops [Volume, Sound Selection, Panning, and Sound Placement]
  • Understand the Power of Layering
  • Fully Control a Drum Loop
  • Tempo Tricks and Swing for Emotion and Rhythm/Groove
  • An Effective Workflow when Creating Drum Loops
  • Creating Loose and Organic Drum Loops by Note Nudging
  • How to Bring a Loop Back in which a Listener Can't Stop Listening to

Course content

1 section7 lectures2h 41m total length
  • Slideshow About Drum Loops + the Fundamentals17:58

    Explore foundational drum loop basics, from volume and velocity to sound selection, panning, and placement, then master layering, cut itself, tempo, swing, and workflow for hip hop and dance loops.

  • How to Ask Questions + Leave Review1:44
  • Overview of Premade Drum Loop Revealing the Fundamentals Used31:57
  • Creating an Urban/Hip-Hop Drum Loop Step-By-Step1:22:57
  • Understand How Tempo Can Control Our Drum Loop's Emotion9:10

    Explore how tempo controls a drum loop's emotion by halving from 140 to 70 bpm, aligning clap placements, and layering patterns to create faster textures without changing pitch.

  • Creating Our Second Drum Loop Step-by-Step [DANCE DRUM LOOP]13:59
  • [BONUS] - 3 Tips to Create Effective Drum Loops3:35

Requirements

  • Any DAW will work for this course
  • It's best if you have high-quality sound kits

Description

Foundational Drum Loop Basics is geared towards producers wanting to improve their drum loops.

You will learn many of the fundamentals of creating a powerful drum loop WITHOUT the use of plugins.

These basics allow you to create the exact flavor you're looking for your tracks.

Drum loops are the foundation of your track, and if your drum loop is boring or bland, your listeners will quickly get bored.

This all comes down to proper sound selection and timing.

There are 5 videos included in this course (I've thrown in a bonus video, too! - 3 Tips for Better Drum Loops)

  • Slideshow
  • Example Drum Loop
  • Urban Loop
  • Tempo
  • Dance Loop


We first discuss different aspects of your drum loop with a slideshow. I’m sure you will learn a lot, stretching the boundaries of what you currently know about music production.

Next, we go over an example drum loop. We later create our own loop from scratch, which you see step-by-step, but in this example drum loop video, you see exactly the techniques I’ve used beforehand. This allows the knowledge to sink in prior before we create our own loop.

In the Urban Loop, this is where we create our loop from scratch. You get to see powerful techniques such as velocity, panning, layering, and sound placement. Sound placement alone is a technique which takes years to get a comfortable feel for. But with my safe spots methodology, you will quickly catch on which makes your beatmaking process much more enjoyable and exciting!

The tempo video shows you a cool technique which a lot of producers do when it comes to tempo.

And finally, in the Dance Loop video we create another drum loop from scratch, but this time with a dance feel to our drum loop. This way you can see what goes into both an urban drum loop as well as a dance drum loop.

By the end of this course, it should shape your drum loops to the next level. If you’re newer to production, this will open your eyes to the techniques available to you while making your beats.

Enjoy,

# GratuiTous

Who this course is for:

  • Producers Who Want to Build Effective and Powerful Drum Loops