Make your drum loops come alive

Make your drum loops come alive the easy way

On the message boards and forums i notice a lot of newbies for some reason are using the same,hit foreach drum hit in there drum set for the entire song. Do not let that be you! One of the best things we can do as edm producers is try our best to think like drummers and do what they would do.

One thing to keep in mind is drummers have 2 arms and two legs so they will not be able to hit a tom drum a high hat a side stick a bongo and a snare all at the same time! Im sure you have seen these songs in the forums or on soundcloud.com and you were asking yourself is the person for real or what???

Make a loop for each phrase

So the thing to do to sound natural is to have a drum loop for each section:

A drum loop for intro

a drum loop for drop

a drum loop for the risde

a drum loop for pre chorus

a drum loop for the first verse

a drum loop when the first arp comes in

a drum loop for the main chorus

a drum loop for the middle 8th section

a drum loop for the reprise

a drum loop for the buildups

and a drum loop for the outro.

most songs without getting to technical or robotic its never a good thing to get too robotic but a good rule of thumb is to have a change a new phrase at bars 17,33,41 or 49,65 73 or 81 and so forth if you are doing four bar phrases.

So you get the picture it may take you longer to produce your song but in the end your song will sound so much better and natural sounding. Rather than just putting a kick on the 2s and snare on the 4s and just going boom boom the whole track that can get real boring real quick.

So take it from me be more creative and have some fun.

one last thing do not forget to add some groove shuffle and swing to get the real syncopation going then your gold!

I uploaded a short video below to show you what im talking about if you have any questions just leave your comments in comment section.

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