East Coast Beat Tips: Bass Drum & High Hat

Video Transcript

"All right, now I want to talk about the kick and the open hat. These are probably some of the last things you want to add when you're making your east coast beat. The kick and the open hat, this is where you just get to have fun. You could put it anywhere you want, just have fun with it, find a rhythm that you want, just have fun with it. So what I'm about to do is I'm going to show you the beat we've been working on. I'm going to show you where I place the kick and where I place the open hat and that's for the rhythm that I'm looking for for the east coast track that I'm trying to do. And you can change it up to however you feel, or just get that rhythm, when you hear that kick, the kick is kind of like almost giving the rhythm, the high hat, open hat is kind of supporting it. I mean the high hat and the snare is kind of supporting the kick and open hat, so, check it out. We're about to go to this beat. I want you to listen to where I place the kick and where I place the open hat. Check me out. All right. I want to show you where we placed the kick and where we placed the open hat. All right, check this out. First I'm going to start off with the high hat and the snare, that's the typical on the eighth and on the two and the four, but now I'm going to show you where I place the kick. Well first let me show you where I place the open hat. I place that open hat right before the snare. You hear it? That was the open hat. Now, I'm going to play us the kick in. See this is all where you want it to go, the rappers will get on there and they'll do their thing, but these are just some typical things that happen when you do an east coast beat. We started from a break beat, then I broke the sounds down and made my own little drum pattern with it. But it's just, matter of fact just getting in there and fooling around with it."