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Summary: How to record percussion 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
"Now we are going to record some percussion and when you go to your different drum kits on here, use your percussions up here. Usually around this range there is some conga's in there and you can get some shaker sound. So I am going to add some conga's and shaker's. So I go to "track four" and then I go up to track for and hit "category", then I go down to drums and let us see here, if you go to orchestra and ethnic, you get a bunch of cool sounds too, so I will get that. That is tabla's, so I have all these cool things I can add in there. So here is our shaker, let us add that first, so now I got a shaker, I am going to add some tabla's. Now we have a nice little extra track in there. What is cool we can go to "Solo", we can shut that off and we have our bass, then we can switch to our, I shut the tabla track off, I put it on "mute", now when I hit solo it goes just to solo. So I have tabla's, drum kit, tabla's, drum kit, tabla's, drum kit, tabla's, drum kit, so that way we can go through and we do not even always have to do that. If you want to record some conga's we can make a conga track and you have eighteen tracks to put whatever you want in there. We are just doing one measure loops and we will go and show you how to make it longer loops in just a minute."
eHow Article: Recording Percussion for Korg Keyboard Hip Hop Beats