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Summary: How to record a kick drum when sequencing hip hop beats on a Korg Triton Studio keyboard; learn this and more in this free online video about musical instruments taught by expert Ryan Larson.
Ryan Larson is a young jazz composer whose teaching technique focuses on the basics of music theory in all 12 keys. When applying his 12-key technique to understanding the logic behind...read more
"So now that we have made ourselves familiar with these different options we have on the Korg, we are going to start by recording our first track. I start by going to "Preference" under the "Sequence" button, hitting "preference", I am going to go "Loop all tracks", I am just going to loop one track. I put the precount level down to zero, because once it starts counting your right in so, now I go over to "program", I get my first sound, category, I selected "Drum". Let us go "D and D gate kit", so I hit that, now when I hit record it is just going to loop one measure. You got to hit record and then start, now I am going to do my bass, I want to slow it down and record it slow. You can see how it is in there, you want to hear the beat before you play it like if I want to do "boom, boom, tah-tah, boom, dah, boom, boom, tah-tah, boom dah. Now we will loop it, I actually got to to loop here. Two, three, uh, boom, boom, tah-tah, boom tah, boom, boom, tah, boom tah. So you got to hear the parts that are not being played, because we have not recorded them yet. But as we go through the next couple of tracks we will add in "high hat and snare" and that way you can turn them off individually as well. Say you want a couple of vocals, its getting to you want to take the bass out real quick and then turn it back on. If you have all these tracks recorded individually you can do that and we will continue and finish the rest of our drum loop in our next couple of segments."
eHow Article: Recording Kick Drum for Korg Keyboard Hip Hop Beats