Drum Samples: Making Your Next Selection
These days, selecting drum samples is as much of an art form as just about anything else in the electronic music production game. The top hundred tracks on Billboard (pop, hip-hop and RnB) are nearly the exclusive domain of producers who know how to choose the right drums - the ones that complement their tracks fittingly.
It is a popular reverb: a piece of music is only as strong as its weakest part. This actually goes for any body of work, but it illustrates our examples perfectly. Your drum samples need to be as good as they can be, because any lackluster ingredients will result in a bad dish here. Drums are so important these days that they can make or break any song in pop and hip-hop, and even in styles like Jazz and Soul, coloring the sound space with creative drum placement is vital.
Tip 1: Coherence. This is kind of a problem for many amateurs to accept, mainly because electronic music is supposed to be all about choosing the different drum samples and sounds you want and then throwing them all into the same pot, right? Maybe, but any song - however experimental - should have some coherence among instrument groups; otherwise, the dissonance factor is perpetually increased.
Coherence in drum samples can be achieved through a number of different ways. Let's see what we can do after sequencing. A common effect or reverb is one way to 'bind' the drum samples, and one of the most popular ways to achieve the effect is using a compressor. A lot of beat makers generally use this on a few drum samples at a time, such as the kick and snare sounds.
The second tip: Style. What do I mean by this? I'm not talking about using only drum samples that sound alike for your use, no. What I mean is using common techniques like compression and especially filters, and then going further and creating space for each drum sample. You will soon develop your own way to create this style for whatever drums you choose to apply it to. Consider the dynamics and the interaction before making decisions about the samples as they apply to the song.
When it comes down to picking your next few drum samples, consider the aforementioned tips. Also, I highly advise you to expand your sound selection. Staying within the same hundred samples will soon show in your music. You're going to start developing the same sort of beats and music. It goes well beyond the samples, so do your creative mind a favor and expand beyond your current situation. - 23806
It is a popular reverb: a piece of music is only as strong as its weakest part. This actually goes for any body of work, but it illustrates our examples perfectly. Your drum samples need to be as good as they can be, because any lackluster ingredients will result in a bad dish here. Drums are so important these days that they can make or break any song in pop and hip-hop, and even in styles like Jazz and Soul, coloring the sound space with creative drum placement is vital.
Tip 1: Coherence. This is kind of a problem for many amateurs to accept, mainly because electronic music is supposed to be all about choosing the different drum samples and sounds you want and then throwing them all into the same pot, right? Maybe, but any song - however experimental - should have some coherence among instrument groups; otherwise, the dissonance factor is perpetually increased.
Coherence in drum samples can be achieved through a number of different ways. Let's see what we can do after sequencing. A common effect or reverb is one way to 'bind' the drum samples, and one of the most popular ways to achieve the effect is using a compressor. A lot of beat makers generally use this on a few drum samples at a time, such as the kick and snare sounds.
The second tip: Style. What do I mean by this? I'm not talking about using only drum samples that sound alike for your use, no. What I mean is using common techniques like compression and especially filters, and then going further and creating space for each drum sample. You will soon develop your own way to create this style for whatever drums you choose to apply it to. Consider the dynamics and the interaction before making decisions about the samples as they apply to the song.
When it comes down to picking your next few drum samples, consider the aforementioned tips. Also, I highly advise you to expand your sound selection. Staying within the same hundred samples will soon show in your music. You're going to start developing the same sort of beats and music. It goes well beyond the samples, so do your creative mind a favor and expand beyond your current situation. - 23806
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