J. Anthony Allen shows how to build a drum pattern in a DAW by placing hi-hats on off-beats, then adding snare on beats two and four and kick drum on beats one and three. He stresses listening after each change to hear how the pieces fit together.
All right, our hi hats are going to go on the upbeats. Now, I can't exactly see my upbeat here. Right. Or. Sorry. Our hats are going to go on the offbeat. So I have to zoom in a little bit more so I see my offbeat. It's right there. Okay, now I'm going to copy and click right here. Paste. Click right here. Paste. Click right here and paste. Okay, now we have the whole thing. Okay, so let's hear it. Oops, I gotta unmute my hi hat. Turn off my metronome. Cool. Now, last thing we want to do with this is let's double it up like I was just talking about. So to double it up, I'm going to leave my hi hats right where they are. I'm going to move my snare to be not halfway between in the bar, but halfway between beats one and three. So that puts it on beat two. I'm also going to put it halfway between beat three and the next downbeat. It's going to put it on beat four. Now I'm going to take my kick and put it on beat one and also on beat three. Now let's hear it. Start at the beginning. Okay. Starting to come together. There's a bit more we can do with our hi hats and still be in this kind of framework of the most basic beat. So let's go to that next.
