All right so this is just a old school
boom-bap tip and really it's just more
relevant to the period of boom bap hip
hop in the 90s it's a tool that sort of
faded away as we moved from loopy beats
to just using singler drums to make a
drum beat the idea behind it all is to
fill in the skeleton of your drum beat
with a rhythmic section or rhythmic loop
in order to give your beat a little bit
of body and fluidity to it and this
trick adds a whole lot of swing and a
whole lot of feeling that you wouldn't
really get just from the Singler drum
hits that we saw later on in the 90s so
this is like a early let's say 90 to 93
period style beat um you would hear a
lot of this on Black Moon a lot of souls
of mischief course Pete Rock Molly Moll
that sort of era we're using the in
sonic EPS 16 plus today for this example
as we bring in the drum parts of the
skeleton of the beat and by the way if
you have an EPS 16 plus and you're
wondering if the ensoniq is our 10
beginners manual applies to the EPS 16
plus it does and in further updates any
differences in the overlap between the
two samples will be covered so here we
are with this skeleton beat now what
we're missing is the element that will
gel the kick the snare and the hi-hat
together and that is this this drum
break here we can use it as a glue to
wrap all the elements of our drums up
and make them more fluid so let's start
things back up right now and take a
listen to what happens once we bring in
the loop all right and we'll just add in
the loop now
right so you see what's happened
immediately we have instant 90s boom bap
5 of hip-hop that's important that you
sort of filter out this drum beat with a
high-pass filter just so it doesn't
compete too much with your kick drum and
your snare drum so it really just lays
in the cut really just bringing
everything together it's really a binder
you don't want to have too much bass or
too much low-end going on because you
already have that with your kick and
then this particular drum beat the kick
is pretty heavy as well as the snare so
really it's just there as a finisher
it's almost like a clear coat to bind
everything together now where this
approach would really fit in nicely is
in more modern Lofa hip-hop music that
we're hearing today lo-fi hip-hop from
today's a direct descendant of that
style of music where it's very well
low-five compared to what we're hearing
in the latter part of the 9th
so techniques like these would add a
completely useful production element to
how we make our music today so from here
on out we'll just listen to how
everything sounds and I'll bring the
elements of the music in and out so you
can hear the differences and I'll catch
you on the end of the video
all right so you saw the value that just
a simple drum brake pads and not to
mention you can make your own drum breed
you don't have to really take it from a
record or something existing you could
program your own drum brake and sample
it maybe with some reverb or other stuff
to give it some spread and then lay it
under an existing beat that you have
just to do exactly what we've said today
yes
ideally a drum brake would work if you
have a drummer or if you are a drummer
to get live sort of interaction between
the drums is best but there's no real
rules to this the goal here is really to
fill out your beat so your kick and
snare and hi-hat don't sound so isolated
and alone and so mechanical but anyway
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