J. Anthony Allen teaches drum programming from the ground up, starting with rhythm fundamentals like syncopation and swing. You'll learn to design kicks and snares, then deconstruct house and Daft Punk tracks to see how they work in Ableton Live.
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Hey everyone and welcome to Drum Programming Masterclass. I'm really excited to make this class. This has been one that a lot of students have asked me to make for a long time. After seeing my Ableton classes, my sound design classes, all of my production classes, and even my music theory classes. So in this class, what we're going to do is we're going to start by breaking down the beat and talking about how we put together rhythms on a grid. And then we're going to move into some of the sound palette things that we need to know how to do, like good kicks, cymbals, snares, all that good stuff. And then we're going to start looking at different genres. So we're going to look at house music, we're going to look at some tracks by Daft Punk. We'll look at a few tracks of mine as well in the course and I'll just show you how they work and we'll really reconstruct these tracks so that you can learn how to reconstruct them on your own as well. And remember, of course, that this is only the first part of a multi part class. So we're going to be diving in deep in this course, but there will be a lot more to come. So I hope you decide to join us. Please stick around for the class. It's a lot of fun. It. Four of these are going to happen in between each clap, right? So I'm going to clap our pulse and when we get to here, you're going to hear four of these pass in between. Two. The one that's happening more common. So we're going to hear that as an accent because low, low, high, low, low, high, low, low, high, low, low, high. So we're going to hear that as accented, that one coming every three 16th notes, right? It's one E and a two E and a one E and a two E. And so that's awkward, right? And that's what syncopation is all about. Zoom in farther and the numbers get weirder, right? There's nothing. See here, I see 3, 1 1, 229. Okay, we're gonna talk about those numbers in a minute. And Ableton does the same thing if I scroll in even farther. Okay. So we talked about swing being, you know, moving stuff a little bit off the 16th notes, sometimes the 8th notes, just moving the pattern around just a little bit, nudging some things here and there to give us that feeling of swing.
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So I want to add it to my percussion here, but to nothing else. Okay, so here's how I'm going to do it. And this is going to be different depending on at all. There's a little bit more high stuff happening later on in the song like that, but the main groove is rock solid and did not change. It.
