East Coast Beat Tips: Drum Sounds

Video Transcript

"Alright now after you find your break beat, let's talk about breaking down the sounds. Most of the times in the break beats there's different sounds. There's a kick, snare, open hat, high hat. Once you get that break beat, what you want to do is actually find a program that you can actually separate each sound. A lot of NPC's do it where you could put just the kick on there and cut the snare out. Or you can put just the snare on there and cut everything else out. So what you want to do is find your break beat, find the sound you want. Find like a little, you know, you find in the old song, but then start breaking down the sounds. You hear the kick take that kick chop it make it by itself. Take the snare chop it make it by itself. Take the high hat put it by itself. And then that's how you start building your beat just by breaking down the break beat that you have. Making it just, you know, individual sounds so you can make it into the beat that you want. Watch it, I'm going to show you right now. First I'm going to play the break beat itself. That's all the things of the break beat. It's the kick, snare, the high hat, open hat. And what you want to do is you want to break it down. I'm going to show you how to break it down real quick. What I actually did that was a whole song together. That was, it was in a two track stereo, but now what I did was I just took the kick part and made it just a kick. I just sampled the kick. So you just hear the kick now, because I took everything else out and I separated it on different channels. Then I put the high, I made the snare its own. And I made the high hat and then a open hat. All of them are the same, all of them are broken down for the break beat. I took the break beat and broke them down. This way, this way I could put the high hat to where I want it to go. I could take the kick place it to where I want it to go. And I could take the snare where I want it to go. Lots of times though I just make, keep it the same pattern as the break beat, but you can change it up. You could move the snare a little bit, or you could add a little bit more kicks, or change the kicks up in different positions so you're not a hundred percent copying the break beat. But sometimes you may just want to copy the break beat. But you may want to add the kick, you want to add maybe a little bit more bass to the kick or to the snare or whatever you want to do so when you're making your beat. But that's what you got to do, break down the break beat to the different sections."