Drum Programming Masterclass: COMPLETE (Parts 1, 2, and 3)

U1: Introduction

→ Welcome & Introduction
→ About Me
→ Tools (I'm going to be using Ableton Live, but any audio program will work!)

U2: Working with Beats on the Grid

→ Making Beats in Your Audio Sequencer
→ Making Beats with the MIDI Grid

U3: Reading the Timeline

→ The Bar
→ The Beat (Or Pulse)
→ The 8th and 16th
→ Meter
→ Counting Bars
→ Reading Drum Patterns

U4: Elements of the Drum Pattern

→ The 3 Essentials
→ Percussion
→ More Cymbals
→ Other Sounds
→ Where to find good drum samples (for free!)

U5: What We Look for in a Drum Pattern

→ Building a Groove
→ Variation
→ Modulation
→ Simplicity & Genre
→ Feel (Swing)

U6: The Basic Pattern

→ What the Basic Pattern is
→ The Basic Pattern
→ Adding Off-Beats
→ The Importance of Tempo

U7: Building on the Basic Pattern

→ Dynamics
→ Adding Variation with Percussion
→ Syncopation
→ Swing
→ Humanism

U8: Genre 1, Programming a House Beat

→ About Genres
→ Finding Our Sounds
→ The Basics of a House Beat
→ Adding More Elements
→ Dynamics!
→ Analysis, Sam Paganini, Satellite

U9: Analysis, Daft Punk

→ Finding the Right Sounds
→ Building the Pattern
→ Swing Elements

U10: Wrap Up (Part 1)

→ What Next?
→ Thanks for Watching! Stick around for Part 2!

U11: Introduction, Part 2!

→ Welcome to Part 2!
→ About Me
→ Tools (I'm going to be using Ableton Live, but any audio program will work!)
→ Review, How to read rhythms on the grid
→ Review, The Basic Beat

U12: Working with Samplers

→ Why work with samplers?
→ Hardware drum machines
→ The basic outline of a Sampler (in Ableton Live)
→ The Basic outline of a Sampler (in Logic Pro)

U13: Working on the MIDI Grid

→ Advantages of MIDI
→ Note On/Off
→ Velocity
→ Setting up a MIDI Track

U14: Genre Study, Drum and Bass

→ Back to the basic beat
→ A Drum and Bass "basic" Pattern
→ Analysis, John B - Up All Night
→ Analysis, Sub Focus - X-Ray
→ Analysis, Konflict - The Beckoning

U15: Performance and Humanization

→ Playing It In
→ Quantization and Settings
→ Controllers
→ Recording Controllers
→ Ableton's Groove Settings

U16: Genre Study, Dubstep

→ The basics of Dubstep
→ Analysis, Skrillex - Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites
→ Analysis, Flux Pavillion - I Can't Stop
→ Analysis, The Drop Section of Flux Pavillion

U17: Using Effects

→ Adding Some Life with Effects
→ Filtering
→ Delay Effects
→ Reversed Sounds
→ Pitch Shifting

U18: Genre Study, Trap

→ The basics of Trap
→ Analysis, Turn Up - Gent and Jawns
→ Analysis, The Drop - Bro Safari

U19: Dynamic Effects

→ What are dynamic effects?
→ Ghost Notes
→ Noise Risers
→ Volume for Variation

U20: Wrap Up (Part 2)

→ What Comes next?
→ Thanks and Bye! (Stick around for Part 3!)

U21: Welcome to Part 3!

→ Introduction, Part 3
→ Tools (I'm going to be using Ableton Live, but any audio program will work!)
→ Review, How to read rhythms on the grid
→ Review, Counting Rhythms

U22: Programming Beats to a Track

→ Finding the Beat
→ Getting Intimate with the Bassline
→ Make Sure Your Swing Matches (or dont?)
→ Side Chaining, Finding Great Rhythms We Can Use In the Track
→ Experiment!
→ Just for Fun, Experimenting with other Beats

U23: Genre Study, Hip Hop

→ The Basics of Hip Hop
→ Analysis, Nothin' But a G Thang (Snoop Dog, Dre. Dr)
→ Analysis, Lose Yourself (Eminem)
→ Analysis, Skeleton Key (Dessa)

U24: Transition and the Beat

→ The Breath
→ Subtract Before You Add
→ Transition Experiments
→ Fills

U25: Genre Study, Footwork

→ The Basics of Footwork
→ Analysis, High Life (Boylan)
→ Analysis, 114799 (DJ Slugo)

U26: Pitch and Drums

→ Tuning Kick Drums
→ Melodic Percussion
→ Mixing, Bass and Kick Clashes
→ Frequency Space and Drums

U27: Genre Study, Funk

→ Analysis, Cissy Strut (The Meters)
→ Analysis, Cold Sweat (James Brown)
→ Analysis, Sexy MF (Prince)
→ Analysis, Amen Brother (The Winstons)
→ The Amen Break

U28: Drum Glitch Plugins

→ Overview of Glitch Techniques
→ Fracture (Glitchmachines)
→ Hysteresis (Glitchmachines)
→ Stutter Edit (Izotope)

U29: Wrap Up

→ What comes next?
→ Thanks and bye!

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