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YouTube man what's good with y' welcome
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back to a brand new video on the channel
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hope you're doing good man before we get
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into today's video want to make a quick
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announcement that I just dropped my make
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believe collection kit on December 20th
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the first kit that I dropped after a
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year and a half been teasing this kit
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for almost 6 months now so it's out
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right now man first link down in the
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description down below but in today's
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video I'm going to cover drum patterns
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and for the people who watch my videos
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y'all know that I only have a handful of
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drum related tutorials on my channel so
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I figured before the new year starts I
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just give youall a fresh updated
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tutorial uh so today I'm going to go in
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depth on drum patterns drum bounces
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anything that has to do with drums from
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highets to claps open Heads snares um to
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the 8 so I'm not going to get too in
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depth into the sample making today uh I
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got hundreds of tutorials covering that
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so I'm only going to be focusing on the
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drums and going over each individual
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sound and explaining my thought process
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behind um laying down the patterns for
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each drum sound so uh let's get right
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into it man let's get it all right man
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got Studio pulled up and as I mentioned
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in the intro I'm not going to get too
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in-depth into the sample making for
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today's tutorial so I already got got a
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pre-made sample pulled up and the sample
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that I got in front of me is a sample
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out of my make belief collection of the
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sample Library the sample right here the
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L and luck one give you a quick preview
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see what it sounds
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like very ethnic dark vibe to
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it it's what it sounds like let's keep
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things organized I'm going get rid of
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the sample I got the original flp pulled
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up right here in stems
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you can see and I also already
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pre-arranged it uh to make it easier and
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I also labeled every part of the
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arrangement so you can see got an eight
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bar intro right here 16 Bar hook after
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that 16 Bar verse and a eight bar bridge
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and that's also a very important factor
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when it comes to the arrangement of your
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drum patterns um to know what sounds to
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use in a hook and a verse so I'm going
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get into that as soon as we lay down the
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uh drum pattern of course so I'mma
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highlight all the sections where drums
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are in the arrangement so that would be
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the hook and the verse and the reason
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why I arrange the sample before adding
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jums to it is cuz that really gives you
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a better understanding and idea of what
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the beat is going to sound like instead
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of having an eight bar Loop which sounds
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the exact same throughout the entire
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process of laying down the drum pattern
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but if you pre-arrange the sample first
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like I just did uh gives you a little
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bit more guidance throughout the
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arrangement you feel me so the drum
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pattern will kind of match the sample a
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little bit better since it's a little
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bit diversity you feel me it's not like
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the same exact eight bars over and over
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again so I'm highlight these 32 bars The
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Hook and the verse so let's get started
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on the jum pattern so let's open up the
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drum library for my belief collection
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kit these are the sounds that we're
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going to be using today so 99% of the
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time when starting on a jump pattern I
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always like to start out with a high
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head and a snare just really locking
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that Temple and set the bounce of the
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beat so I'm make sure that the sample is
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playing I'm just go through the sounds
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to see which one matches the sample the
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best Snappy High really match the vibe
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with the
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sample that's why it's important to have
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the sample
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playing like this last last one right
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here so let's track that into the
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channel right and before choosing the
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snare fill each two step with the
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high let's manipulate the high sample a
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little bit right here cut a little bit
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off the start so it's a little bit
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snappier mess around with the out
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knob a little bit
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tighter that sounds good man sounds a
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whole lot better let's get into the
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snare once again go over the samples
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when I Havey hidden
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snare like this specific one right here
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once again manipulate it so that it fits
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the sample just a little bit
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better like that and for the main snare
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pattern I always like to keep this as
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simple as possible because I like to
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complement the main snare with a counter
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snare instead of just using one snare
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and going all over the place on the
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pattern started with the basic pattern
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like I said
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you can always make some small
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adjustments but like I said I don't want
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to do too
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much for
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example you feel me you can also delay
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some snares of course um it's all of too
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for example the last
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snare build some tension you feel me but
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today's beat just keep it fairly simple
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so at this point most of the time I like
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to add my open hats I know a lot of
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people who start out beats with uh 0
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weights but in my opinion I like to
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start out with a high and a snare open
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hats like I said and counter snares just
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to really lock in those main elements of
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the drums really set the tempo for the
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entire beat and base my adway off of
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that so let's go into the open hats of
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course you can use multiples so I'm just
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browse through the open hat samples to
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see which uh match the samples
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Vibe first one sounds good draging into
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the channel
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rack use this one as well sounds good
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and this pearl one I'm might not use all
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three but let's see what turns out fire
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I like to use this uh first open hat
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that I selected as some sort of uh
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accent that makes
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sense you feel me just a little subtle
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accent that's all and it's all about
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finding pockets in the sample where you
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can add your uh percussion elements for
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example the open hat let's find another
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pocket
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you feel me or right here end of the
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fourth
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bar you feel me like it's a lot of space
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in the sample right there so a lot of
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room for percussion or open hats or
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whatever after that I'm going to get
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started on the open hat pattern for this
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open hat right here and I like how this
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open hat sample sounds so I think I want
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this to be my main open hat for today's
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beat and how I usually approach the main
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open hat pattern is just to really
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enhance the bounce as much as possible
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you can place it on the first
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bar but I usually like to delay it just
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a little bit to really build on that
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bounce you feel
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me you feel me sounds a whole lot better
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in my
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opinion let find the pocket in the
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sample once
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again compliments the first one as well
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right on the same
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position yeah that's perfect and while
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laying down drum patterns of course you
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want to play around with the pitch as
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well can make it sound
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better think it sounds good on the uh C
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right here actually I one more open hat
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at the end right
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here at a lower
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velocity that's a little bit more bounce
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to it so I think that's pretty much it
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for the open hats of course you don't
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want to cover your entire drum pattern
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with just open hats so I'm going just
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get rid of that other open hat we
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selected at first so we got four sounds
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so far it sounded pretty good um I'm not
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going to get too in depth into the high
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hat pattern just yet oh since I want to
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add my 8 first and base the high hat
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rolls off of the 8way pattern you really
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want to think of what's most important
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so in my opinion an 8way is more
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important than High rolls so I'm going
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add the 808 first and base the High
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Rolls off of the 808 pattern if that
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makes sense but a little trick that I
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like to use when it comes to the sound
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selection of the 0 weights um I like to
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lay down my 808 pattern first and after
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that go through the 808s so that's why I
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added a spins to my kit right here just
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get the spins very clean very basic um
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works every time and I'm not going to
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focus on the sound selection too much
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I'm going just lay down the 8way pattern
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after that go through the uh 8way
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samples so of course I got every single
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sample in my kit labeled with the key
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for this sample right here that would be
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a Shar minor but a trick to find the
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root notes of the sample that you're
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using using is
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to to pitch it up a few
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octaves that sound good if I pitch it up
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to
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B that wouldn't sound good if you if I
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go down
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one you could just go you hold shift um
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going to your arrow keys you can pitch
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them down one note and just press space
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in between and find the uh the root
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note feel me that it sounds a whole lot
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better it's really a matter of practice
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but you get the hang of it pretty easily
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so a Shar it is for the 8way pattern
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itself I could really go for a hundred
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different patterns and they will all
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sound good but I'm going just base it
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off of the sample that's how I like to
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add my samples or my 8 patterns and 88
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is a base so you can also consider that
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an instrument so that's why I like to
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match it with the sample like I said so
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I could just lay down the craziest
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pattern ever but that wouldn't really
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make sense you feel
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me you feel me like that would sound
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good but it doesn't really match the
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vibe so if we listen closely to the
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sample
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it's a little Gap right here right
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here you feel me like not too much going
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on so I think I want to keep that fairly
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empty when it comes to the 8way
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pattern you feel me this little Gap
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right
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here little Gap right here builds a lot
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of tension sounds really good for 808
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patterns really uh less is more man if
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you listen to the the most popular song
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N9 times out of 10 is a fairly basic 88
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pattern you want to leave space for the
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artist too feel me two great positions
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for the first bar would be right here
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for the second
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8 or right here SS good as
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well think I'm going just leave it empty
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um less is more like I
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said satisfied with these four notes
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right here but to make it stand out a
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little bit more on the end of the fourth
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and the eighth bar I usually add some
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sort of roll or some little adjustment
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to that makes it sound a little bit more
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interesting than just sticking on the
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root
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note so I think F would sound good right
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here you feel me like you can add
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Accents in front of those notes for
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example it's a
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sharp turn it down a velocity
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too really emphasizes that the F right
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here can also add double notes like to
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use those as well
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me let's take those out I like that
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lower velocity note that we laid down
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before let's past that AAR down doesn't
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really sound too good sounds a little
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bit muddy with the spins we pitches down
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that's why I'm uh going to the um the
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8way sound selection
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after Double note
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[Music]
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maybe so since we copied this over we
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can make some adjustments on the second
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part just to keep it interesting so we
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could decide to add another a Shar right
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here bring this to the front
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maybe now build some tension right
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here yeah it's tough next I'm going go
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into the envelope of the 0 weight turn
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the attack down the hold up turn
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everything down so that the uh the note
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stops with the 08 so that the 08 stops
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playing when the note stops um I'm to
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show youall
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you feel me if you extend the
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[Music]
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note it's not going to overlap on the uh
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the next AdAway it's not going to get
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muddy that way but since the spin sounds
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a little bit muddy I'm going just go
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through the ights like I said and found
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the best sound in 8ight now that we have
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the pattern locked
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[Music]
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in I like this sore one right here these
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two
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yeah like this one use this
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[Music]
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one all right so after the 808 we got
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the fundamental sounds laid down so
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after that you want to complement these
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sounds with other jump sounds that are
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less important than these so for example
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counter snares symbols claps percussion
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so let's start out by adding a symbol to
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it i' like to add a symbol on the first
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bar just enhance the impact a little
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bit use this one place it on the first
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bar like I I
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said short and the sound a little bit
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adjusted to uh to match the
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sample and that's that impact you feel
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[Music]
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me yeah keep it like that sounds good so
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next I'm going add some percussion to it
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uh when it comes to the patterns of
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percussion there's really no rules to
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this it's just about matching the
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percussion elements with the uh with the
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sample of course so let's find some
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percussion sounds that um I would like
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to use
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[Music]
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so sounds good drag it
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in that's good as
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[Music]
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well last thing I'm going to select this
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triangle of course I might not use all
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of them let's get started on the
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triangle create this envelope shape
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again so that the the note stops playing
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once I let go of the key of course for
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the pattern of the triangle let start up
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with a longer note with a shorter note
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right after
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that repat
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[Music]
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that so just has a little accent to it
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little ear
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candy and since the percussion is not
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the most important element you want to
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make sure that you turn that down but
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I'm going to get more into the levels
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and the uh the panning later so on to
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the next sound at this one so let's find
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a pocket in the drum uh pattern that we
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got so so far and the sample where this
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would sound good I think I'm going to
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lay down at the end right here uh maybe
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right
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here sounds pretty good rep it
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over out of the two SS that we got left
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I like this one a little bit
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[Music]
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more
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[Music]
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yeah had it right there turn it down and
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let's take out this um other sound we
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had left so after all the percussion uh
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you can always complement the main snare
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with a less present counter
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snare so pretty good get with the main
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snare I think and with the counter snare
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you really want to complement the main
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snare
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pattern so go right
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[Music]
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here so we already got a snare right
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here I'mma take out that first snare
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it's the same exact pattern just copy it
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over took out the first
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[Music]
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note it's perfect all right so you don't
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want your beat to sound too cluttered so
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of course we're going to play around
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with levels like I said uh I think we
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got pretty much all the sounds that we
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need uh so we can make some adjustments
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if we want to we can go into the Hiatt
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pattern and maybe decide to add some
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roles to the hiatts if necessary of
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course but since the drums are already
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doing a lot that might not be necessary
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if you would decide to send this beat to
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an artist for example but for the sake
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of this tutorial I'm going add some
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roles to it I'm to give you some
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examples of places where I usually like
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to add my high up rows um after eight
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snare always sounds
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good second snare for example see how
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that
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sounds you feel me
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at the end of every fourth
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bar also decide to pitch some notes down
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uh just to add somea to
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[Music]
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it sounds good pit it down a little bit
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more at this effect to
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[Music]
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it maybe add one right here it's a
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matter of finding the pockets once again
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woo hold
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on can always take notes out for
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example right now I'm using the uh six
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beat right here and when going for the
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one 16 beat and we're using the one 16
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beat for the high at rolls I like to
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complement those with the 1/3 step but
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instead of the thirds if you want to go
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for half a step I like to use this one
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as well as 1/4th to just go well
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together the 1/3 1 16 and the the half
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step and the 1/4th step hope youall get
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what I meant
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me film is just matter of playing around
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experiment until something sound right
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uh if you decide to pitch rolls down
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they tend to be really loud so I always
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like to uh turn down the velocities on
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my lower higher rows P that over make
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some adjustments on the first and second
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part so it's not too repetitive once
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again s pitches up
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[Music]
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play around with pitches velocities all
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that
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stuff skip the roll for the end right
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here so it uh stays
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interesting
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Yeah final pattern
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so I'm satisfied how this turned out uh
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I think we got pretty much all the
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sounds we need for the sake of this
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tutorial uh after that think I'm going
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to go into the patent since that's also
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something that's very important when
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laying down drums so it's not too
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centered in the middle of the mix you
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feel me so I'm highlight everything and
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do command or control L to send it to um
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each individual mixer track when it
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comes to the mixing of the drums I
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already pre-leveled most of my sounds in
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my kit so as you can see I didn't really
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level too much out when it comes to the
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mixing already sounds leveled and good
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good you feel
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me that's tough but of course you could
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decide to turn some things up or down uh
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percussion for example if you think it's
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too present in the mix and that's
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usually the last thing that I do to my
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drum patterns uh so let's just go from
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left to right go past each and every
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sound to um adjust it to where liking
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starting out with the symbol like to Pat
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my symbols out to the left just to kind
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of separate it a little
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bit the higher it likees to keep that
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pretty centered turn it down a little
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bit
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snare also very
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centered um a to weight High snare
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counter snare are usually the sounds
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that I like to have centered in my
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mix next we got this open hats of course
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you could decide to pan one to the left
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one to the right just kind of enhance
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the stereo
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image sounds pretty good to Triangle the
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percussion sounds you can really pan
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those all the way to the right for
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example
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really makes it sound interesting you
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feel
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me yeah and after that the final step is
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to arrange your drum pattern with uh the
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sample and the uh the final beat and for
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the people who are still struggling with
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arranging their beats I uh have a video
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on my channel I believe going in depth
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on the beat Arrangement should pop up in
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one of the corners so if you're still
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struggling with that make sure to go
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check that out after watch today's video
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but generally speaking I like to get rid
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of my percussion in the first part of
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the hook get rid of most of the
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percussion in the second um in the first
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I mean oh you can maybe decide to keep
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some percussion elements cut out the
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counter snare in the first part of the
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hook cut out the counter snare in the
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verse you want the verse to be open of
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course uh get rid of the open hats maybe
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leave one open hat so generally speaking
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like I said this is what my drum
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patterns look like for the arrangement
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so I think that pretty much wraps up
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this drum pattern as well I think I
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covered the most important parts the
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fundamentals of laying down um a hard
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drum pattern but if you still have any
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questions or thought that I missed
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something or you want me to go a little
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bit more in depth into certain parts of
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uh drums for example make sure to leave
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a comment with your feedback I'll read
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it and if I see enough comments I'll
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make an updated video or a different
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video um depending on what y trying to
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see you feel me so uh that pretty much
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wraps up today's beat as well so this is
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the uh final jump pattern the final beat
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that we ended up with
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man making Cuts also helps um increase
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the bounce
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came out fire
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bro all right man that's pretty much it
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for today's video as well really want to
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thank youall for watching the video all
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the way to the end if you enjoyed this
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like I said before my make belief
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collection kit is out right now I'm have
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it linked down in the first link down in
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the description so make sure to go check
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that out if you enjoy the drum sounds
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that I use in today's video man if you
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want to support the channel of course if
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youall want to see more drum related
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suggestions make sure to leave a comment
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I'll read every single comment man under
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every single one of my videos that's all
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I got for today's video man so I'm going
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catch you out in the next one I'm out
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