Hi there,
I know there are many of you when it comes to groove boxes and drum machines that just put down 4 kicks and their according companies. And most of the time and as much as I try to make something different, its the same thing over and over or its just pushing buttons as long as there is something I like.
But I would love to know a place to go were drum patterns of different kinds are shown and discussed, really up the rytm game.
Does anyone know such a page on the internet?
Or care to share grooves here?
I hope you get a specific answer to your question. I would like suggest something a bit different and still highly education: drum videos of people playing real drums.
There are plenty of resources online: pdf about rythm, drum pattern ideas, drum notation, midi packs of beatsā¦ the latter one being the lazy way.
As always, the shortcut is to know what you do, longer to learn at the beginning (you can translate a groove you like on the machine) but then you are autonome.
Look at sites for drummers, such as Drumeo. I dont use any of them, but there are lots of patterns available, transcriptions of pretty much any song you can think of, if thats what youāre after.
Iāve been going through a lot of drum books lately. One with a variety of patterns for electronic music is Electronic Dance Music Grooves by Josh Bess.
One thing I will say about drums though is there literally is no right or wrong. Only what is appropriate for a genre or not. So it can help to reference tracks in the same genre as what you are trying to make to see what is appropriate.
I usually just listen to a lot of music with a lot of breaks so rap, jungle, funk, electro and late 90s/earlies 00s r&b. That genre is so underrated if you ask me, in terms of drum programming. Take Destinyās Child Say My Name or even Thatās So Raven opening titles song. Madness!
