finding drums

dviaje wrote:Keep your ears open for any tunes that start off with plain drums and have breaks later in the songs.
D'Angelo's Voodoo has a few kicks and claps and snaps that I love

James Brown- Ain't it funky has a very popular basic drumbeat at the beginning with nothing else on it. I'm in the same situation as you for the time being i'm just listening to all the music I have and the moment I hear a drum break or a drum part with no other instruments I take note of it immediately.

Those drums are nice but a bit overused. There are more obscure and hidden drumbreaks/sounds out there

Menco wrote:

dviaje wrote:Keep your ears open for any tunes that start off with plain drums and have breaks later in the songs.
D'Angelo's Voodoo has a few kicks and claps and snaps that I love

James Brown- Ain't it funky has a very popular basic drumbeat at the beginning with nothing else on it. I'm in the same situation as you for the time being i'm just listening to all the music I have and the moment I hear a drum break or a drum part with no other instruments I take note of it immediately.

Those drums are nice but a bit overused. There are more obscure and hidden drumbreaks/sounds out there

I know that- i'm just giving him somewhere to start.

Buy some break records, you can find em all over the web or on eBay. A good collection to check out is the Paul Nice Drum Library collection or the Dusty Fingers collection... they have alot of dope breaks... Buying drum break records really saves you alot of money and time but if you really want to find DOPE drums you need to dig..... You can even buy breakbeat compilations from the internet like that 300 breaks series.. most of those breaks are sampled from vinyl anyway so theres really not much of a difference in the sound quality.... and most importantly in order to make your drums really sound good you need to LAYER!! You can find a really dope drum break but if you chop it, layer it, and replay it your own way, it will sound even better...

learn your drummers... ppl that have played with james gadson for instance... YOU KNOW THERE WILL BE A BREAK...

he's a legend... if u go through the soul sections looking for breaks then its best to learn drummers first b4 you know the whole ensemble... itll same you some time plus you can almost look at it like " ive got my break now lets cop a rec for the beat" or some shit...


i go cop break recs... on fatbeats site they have a couple in the clearance section for about 7- 10 bucks... id cop those..

hope this helps...

Get drums from where ever you can. Drums are drums. Buy records, buy compilations, download MP3's, whatever. Do what you need to make the music you wish to create and don't let anyone tell you what you can or can't do. There are NO rules to make beats.

Go to record stores and look for skratch records for turntablists. They got tons of drum samples on there if your looking to make your own drum kits. Look for Dirtstyle records from Invisibl Skratch Piklz, D-Stylez, QBert or Gunkhole or any DJ break record. Heres some on this site.

http://www.turntablelab.com/vinyl/38/2205/

Don't grab those comps mp3->asr is nothing like 12" or 45rpm to asr

almost every record had at least one or 2 open drums and u got them asr filters....USE EM!!!!!

the other day i'm working on a drum kit and my guy is almost in tears over this one kick and snare
he then tells me how this one stack of 45s had no drums on it...i show him the 45 he listened to and missed the drums

right there in the open snare x3, 2 kicks and then the song drops

seriously drums are everywhere and with the filters and resampling on the ASR there aint no reason u cant have a shoebox full of floppys with nuthing but banging drums

i looked at that list and went on ebay and around town and bought the actual records. came home and sampled them into my 500.

but before that, i would just find a bunch of rock and soul/etc. records around town and they all pretty much had at least a couple sounds a piece that i could use.

OR

just find a good amount of sounds and just re-use them by editing differently for each new track, and while your doing that, you can be looking for new breaks/records.

this is how i've been doing it so far...

DPM wrote:just find a good amount of sounds and just re-use them by editing differently for each new track, and while your doing that, you can be looking for new breaks/records.

Indeed a good one. Also if u layer them in different combo's u can create a lot of type of sounds with let's say 10 different drum samples.

Menco wrote:

DPM wrote:just find a good amount of sounds and just re-use them by editing differently for each new track, and while your doing that, you can be looking for new breaks/records.

Indeed a good one. Also if u layer them in different combo's u can create a lot of type of sounds with let's say 10 different drum samples.

ooooowhh..

sounds like the next beat battle is forming already. haha!

jaem wrote:
almost every record had at least one or 2 open drums and u got them asr filters....USE EM!!!!!

the other day i'm working on a drum kit and my guy is almost in tears over this one kick and snare
he then tells me how this one stack of 45s had no drums on it...i show him the 45 he listened to and missed the drums

right there in the open snare x3, 2 kicks and then the song drops

seriously drums are everywhere and with the filters and resampling on the ASR there aint no reason u cant have a shoebox full of floppys with nuthing but banging drums

so true. it seem that some people doesn't really listen to the music. Of course it's easier to use a 2 bar drumbreak to cut out the drums and build a kit but with filter and especially amp-envelope you can get a snare out of so many other songs were there is not really a break.

peace

and more to come....

http://beatthebrakesoffyoass.blogspot.com/search/label/Breaks

are the 300 essential breaks even vinyl rips or are they mp3 knockoffs?