Quick Tip: Drum Variations with Clips in FL Studio
“Playlist clips in FL Studio can be sliced up and rearranged, which is an easy way to add fills and syncopated variations to drums. Once we have some variations, we can merge the clip slices and then clean it up a bit in the piano roll.”
Stereo Dynamic Drums in Reason
“Static songs aren’t attractive to listen to. By adding dynamics to your mix, you’ll be able to hold the listener’s attention. This tutorial will show you two ways how to add stereo dynamics to your beats, using the Malström as a modulator.”
10 Rocking Drum Tuition Videos
“Here are 10 rocking drum tuition videos that teach you rudiments, patterns and techniques. This is great information to know when you’re programming a realistic drum pattern for your track. And if you’re serious about learning how to play drums. Learn and enjoy!”
Click the link above for the other nine videos.
Steve Moore: Interview with the drummer at the wrong gig
If you enjoyed the Youtube video we published recently “This drummer is at the wrong gig,” you’ll want to check out this interview of Steve Moore, the drummer in question.
“The most difficult thing is traveling. It’s not performing. It’s really nothing for us to play a show, tear everything down, jump in the bus and drive sometimes 22 hours, then show up at a hotel, maybe sleep an hour, grab a shower and do a soundcheck and play the show then do it again. You don’t get the opportunity to stop and sight-see, look at a bridge, or whatever, or stop and have dinner, you just see months of interstate.”
Click the link above for the rest of the interview.
Here’s AudioJungle’s own Visualgroove jamming on the drums to Lada Gaga. I love the stick throwing, Febby!
Febby - Telephone - Lady Gaga ft. Beyonce (Drum Rock Remix by girl drummer) (via visualgroove)
How to Mix Two Kick Sounds Together
“Sampling two kick drums together is common practice in audio production. You can layer kick samples for your electronic beats together, or you can drum replace rock songs with a few kick drum samples that compliment each other. But what if you need to use your recorded kick drum sounds, and can’t layer with samples? How can you mix together two kick drum microphones in order to bring out the character of each one.”
“A lot of people have a lot of complaints about the Drums (and their past projects), but Jonathan Pierce’s weirdly expressive robotic dancing/carefully rolled high waters, the pack of wee hipsters, and the obviously Smiths-y atmosphere of the video for “Forever And Ever Amen” make for harmless summertime fun. Something that comes in handy now and again. It’s from their forthcoming full-length debut.”
Create a Heaving Kick Drum Without Samples in FL Studio
“In this tutorial we are going to go over how to create a powerful punching kick drum sound in FL Studio. Traditionally this would require us to have multiple high quality kick drum recordings from which to work from. We would need to trim them so they occur at the same instance, EQ out phase cancellations, etc and possibly still not get the sound we want.
“Instead we are going to use Image-Line’s new VST, Drumaxx. Drumaxx is a percussion synthesizer that lets us mold and create our drums as we see fit without any samples. This will let us tweak the drums at any point in the process without having to back track through multiple saved files. In addition we will still be able to add effects and tweak them more by simply sending them off to a track in the mixer. Let’s get started!”
