J. Anthony Allen teaches advanced drum programming across hip-hop, funk, footwork, and breakcore. Learn genre-specific workflows, pitch-tuning drums, side-chain compression, and how to disable hi-hat choke to layer open and closed hats simultaneously for more expressive patterns.
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Hey everyone. Welcome to Drum Programming Masterclass part three. Okay, so in this class we're going to get a little bit more advanced than we have in the other classes. We're going to start by talking about programming beats to a track. So let's say you have a track and you're trying to find the right beat to put on it. So a little bit more on the creative side and less on the technical side. We're going to continue working through different genres. So in this class we're going to focus on hip hop. We're going to talk about footwork, we're going to talk about funk, and then at the very end we're going to spend some time working on the more kind of glitch genres like idm, break core, those kinds of things. I'm going to give you some tips for making that really frantic, glitchy stuff that I love. There's some cool tools to help you do that. We're going to talk about transitions, we're going to talk about pitch and tuning the drums. And that'll lead us a little bit into talking about mixing and our drums. There's a lot to cover in this class. We're gonna get into some more advanced stuff, including side chaining, subtractive techniques, and things like that. This is gonna be a great course for you if you're trying to get into making really powerful drums. Without further ado, let's. Let's dive in. Now in the compressor. Here's my compressor. Let me go here to this little toggle. And click sidechain. So once I turn that on, I say audio from. So what do I want to listen to? I want to listen to the second drum track that I just made, this one, which is called 5 Hilda kit. So 5 Hilda kit. That's what I'm listening for. Okay, now I'm just gonna hit play and watch some fun stuff. Let's loop that. Okay, now, one thing is. Just like before, we're not getting our open hi hat, because these are. The choke setting is on here, which means only the hi hat, open or closed, can happen at a given time. So I'm gonna get rid of the clothes I have. There we go. A lot of ghost notes happening. There's a lot of subtlety happening. So if you just look at the MIDI clip right here, you know, there's. There's a lot of notes happening. So let's just hear what I came up with. Well, let's hear them at the same time. Right. A lot of. I used rim clicks for it, but here a lot of stuff happens. Now, the thing about Stutter Edit, that's a little tricky is it takes some finagling to get it set up just right. You need an audio track and a MIDI track, and you have to put the MIDI track. It.
