Help wit expanding on drum programming

Yo i'm lookin to expand and start on learning different styles.... i'm mainly lookin for drum patterns and how they differ between styles. Like what are some settings to mess with to get the crunk sound with the fast hats and multiple snare hits... or that funky west drum sound. And do u use different note quantizing for the kick , snare , and hats. help a cat out with any different techniques you got for programming drums.

my quantize usually stays at 1/16 from track to track. sometimes i might go to 1/32 on my hats. but for the 1/16 tracks (most of em) I use a variety of swing settings on each sound.

there are no short cuts for programming different drum beats. trail by error is the best way to learn. with trail by error you know what you trying to do but if it does not come out right you also know where you went wrong. another way is to listen to different beats and tap out the different parts with your fingers.

i play the drums for years and i play to albums all the time. there are some songs that it takes me weeks to months to learn (black page by frank zappa, terry bozio on drums). it is not simple, you have to sit down and go at it until you have it. there are no short cuts.

i hate to say this but it is true, drumming/beats come from your soul. anything less than that your beats will not sound that nice.

i another thing clap to the songs you are listening to. finding the groove is the most important thing. when you find the groove you will know it because your soul will start talking to you.

hope you understand. it takes soul, finding the groove, practice and time.

I got this book from the library while back about all the old James Brown drummers. it had a cd with it with all the classic grooves, and they wrote them down in notes too. That s&it helped me a lot.
The title was "give the drummers some", and you can get it here:
http://www.funkydrummer.com/JPpages/shop.html

Besides being helpfull, it's actually a pretty funny book as well.

ive searched, and downloaded some drum tab from random songs-like pink floyd, jazz, whatever.....programed the drums in using the drum tab. Then messed with swing etc.

youll get something out of doing this. Thing that is hard is picking what drum tab to use because there are sometimes used whole drum kits, where normally i only use 3-5 drums, the kick, snare, hihat, and variations of them. So editing the tab will be a must. Plus you cant get groove, unless you trial and error swing settings. BUt if you learn how to read tab, and can understand the break down of some songs and the drum parts, you can pick and choose patterns, and turn them into something you can use.

jaydolla513 wrote:Yo i'm lookin to expand and start on learning different styles.... i'm mainly lookin for drum patterns and how they differ between styles. Like what are some settings to mess with to get the crunk sound with the fast hats and multiple snare hits... or that funky west drum sound. And do u use different note quantizing for the kick , snare , and hats. help a cat out with any different techniques you got for programming drums.

listen to the radio of your favorite song and try to tune out the vocals and just study the beat or try to find instrumentals of music that is on the radio today and just listen. maybe even try to re-do the basic part of the beat. this will give you a heads up on each style .then when you finally get the hang of how the beat was done you can incorperate your own stlyle .Sometimes setting the tempo to lets say...170 BPM and set the bars to 8 insted of 4 you will get a different feel for the beat than you would if you had done it at 85 BPM with 4 bars. I hope I didnt loose you , in the end It really has to feel good first to sound good. trial and error will be your best friend for a while.

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