Why your Boom Bap Drums SUCK & How to Fix Them! - Tutorial Ableton
Why your boom bap drums suck and how you can improve them. In this video I'm showing you how i make dope boom bap beats in Ableton Live 11. Learning how to make boom bap drums with the right sound and swing doesn't need to be a challenge. You just need to study the songs and beats that you admire and learn from the pros. I recorded this video to show you that it can actually be quite simple to create better boom bap drums for hip hop instrumental beats for rappers. This style hip hop production can be achieved if you follow my simple tutorial in Ableton Live 11.
In this tutorial I go over how you can successfully make great sounding boom bap hip hop drums for your beats that rappers will actually want to rap over. I also touch on reasons and ways to make your beats more interesting by showing you tips and tricks you can do with your drum programming techniques. Studying songs is a great way to achieve these original boom bap style drums in your beats similar to what classic rap artists would rap over.
Although this tutorial was created in Ableton Live 11 you can use the same methods and ideas in any DAW. Including Maschine, Akai MPC, Logic, Pro Tools, FL Studio and literally any other program you can think of. Hip Hop is Hip Hop no matter how it is created!
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Time Stamps:
00:00 Intro
00:19 Preview the Drums
00:52 Sound selection is MANDATORY
01:04 Study the beats/songs you love
01:48 Change pitch, release, decay, etc of drum sounds
02:40 Pitching your drum sounds
03:07 Choose real sounding drum sounds
03:22 Nothing bad about using drum breaks
04:05 Rhythm is key
04:35 Give your percussions rhythmic timing
05:35 Steal the groove from drum breaks
08:34 Choose a bunch of drum sounds together to help sound selection
09:23 Velocity is a REQUIREMENT!
09:38 How to make good boom bap hi hat patterns
11:43 Ghost notes on your kick make a huge difference
12:34 Realistic snare rolls
13:02 Layer your drum sounds
14:28 Outro