Crafting Better Beats - 7 Techniques I discovered while transcribing Drum Patterns

Опубликовано: 27 Апрель 2026
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Every once in a while we discover some great or unconventional tricks and techniques that we immediately mark down as "must try". In this episode we'll show you 7 of our absolute favourites - to use as inspiration for your own beats.

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Featured drum patterns (transcriptions available on Patreon):
Adamski - Killer
Afrika Bambaataa & The Soul Sonic Force - Planet Rock
Alexander Robotnick - Problèmes D'Amour
Björk - Hunter
Captain Sky - Super Sporm (Break)
Childish Gambino - Sweatpants
Cliff Richard & The Shadows - Do You Wanna Dance (Intro)
Four Tet - Love Cry
Hardfloor - Acperience 1
Harold Faltermeyer - Axel F
hubbabubbaklubb - Mopedbart
John Tejada - Stabilizer
Kraftwerk - Numbers
Logic - Wake Up
Marvin Gaye - Sexual Healing
Orbital - Halcyon + On + On
Peggy Gou - I Go
Skinny Puppy - Dig It
Timecop 1983 - On The Run

Gear used:
Squarp Hapax
OXI One
8raw8
Roland TR-6S
Seaboard RISE 2 provided by ROLI
Arturia Keystep
TC Electronic Magus Pro

Thanks again to   / vintagemodernaudio   for recording the Yamaha RX120 MIDI mapping for us so we could verify the percussion part for Adamski's "Killer" :)

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0:00 Introduction

Produced by Jean-Claude Dirckx and Sophie Hoppstädter