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Bengas drum beats.

Post by Dystinkt » Sun Nov 21, 2010 11:51 pm

This man is an absolute fucking hero to drum rhythms. Im just interested to see if anyone feels the same or disagrees and why you feel that way

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Re: Bengas drum beats.

Post by therook » Mon Nov 22, 2010 12:18 am

There is too much going on in his drums. I like mine simpler. Kick on 1 snare on 3. :6:
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Post by legend4ry » Mon Nov 22, 2010 12:38 am

I like Benga's drums - Don't think they're the most amazing thing ever but they're nice.
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Post by Depone » Mon Nov 22, 2010 12:47 am

I love em!

I have been told that my early style was quite a bit like benga. -q-

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Re: Bengas drum beats.

Post by Shekul » Mon Nov 22, 2010 12:50 am

Fruity Step Sequencer

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Post by Laika » Mon Nov 22, 2010 1:04 am

Shekul wrote:Fruity Step Sequencer
Yeah, because no other samplers or drum-machines have step sequencers :roll:
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Post by qwaycee_ » Mon Nov 22, 2010 1:10 am

benga's drums are definitely a signature. perhaps that's due to some of the samples themselves being reused.

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Re: Bengas drum beats.

Post by cloak and dagger » Mon Nov 22, 2010 1:56 am

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Post by ogunslinger » Mon Nov 22, 2010 2:27 am

pretty sure it's the sequencer in fl... + his experience
just my guess


seen him live a couple times, the only time he actually rocked the building was Benga & Skream on the same set

other than that.... ehhh

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Post by therook » Mon Nov 22, 2010 5:20 am

ogunslinger wrote:pretty sure it's the sequencer in fl... + his experience
just my guess


seen him live a couple times, the only time he actually rocked the building was Benga & Skream on the same set

other than that.... ehhh
What does the fruity step sequencer have to do with anything? Isn't redrum kinda like the same thing...a 16 step drum sampler thing?
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Post by weedcali » Mon Nov 22, 2010 5:20 am

i like bengas drum patterns however a lot of the actual drum hits he uses seem really stock sounding. kinda cheap.
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Re: Bengas drum beats.

Post by rez pez » Mon Nov 22, 2010 5:28 am

thats the charm of them to me. he completely owns fruity loops

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Post by nowaysj » Mon Nov 22, 2010 7:39 am

Love those benga beats brozers. Out of this world.

Load up a benga beat in your sequencer, match the tempo, and check where the drum hits land. They are mostly off the grid. If he is doing that by programming, wowzers, if by playing live, wowzers2x.

They're just good.

Love those stock sounds. As always, if you can make beats that good with stock sounds, you are the man.
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Re: Bengas drum beats.

Post by Ludovico » Mon Nov 22, 2010 7:46 am

Remember him saying something about how every track has to sound like a track on its own and then it's just a question of making sure it all fits into the groove.

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Post by Ldizzy » Mon Nov 22, 2010 7:52 am

in his futureproducer video he uses the step sequencer, straight...

remember that we use samples... all of us.. even if they are recorded by us.. and that, unless u chop them religiously (which i dis recommend), they will display differences in the delay and the quality of the transient they display... some of my snares just hit later then others because of the way i cut them.. his stuff doenst sound THAT off the grid.. and compression adds a LOT to that ''offbeat'' effect... he may use offgrid patterns but nothing too esoteric imo...

the thing about benga drums is the top end rythm... its kinda like coki's stuff to me... its driven by the hats... the rest kinda revolves around... but hats play a riff instead of acting like some kind of mere spectral fill/grid.
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Re: Bengas drum beats.

Post by Dystinkt » Mon Nov 22, 2010 8:11 am

As an FL man myself, I am pretty amazed by how he gets such a good groove into his rhythms using the step sequencer, i usually just stick with a straight kick on one snare on three beat but thats why i started producing, to try and get rhythms like this guys.

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Re: Bengas drum beats.

Post by grooki » Mon Nov 22, 2010 8:25 am

therook wrote:
ogunslinger wrote:pretty sure it's the sequencer in fl... + his experience
just my guess


seen him live a couple times, the only time he actually rocked the building was Benga & Skream on the same set

other than that.... ehhh
What does the fruity step sequencer have to do with anything? Isn't redrum kinda like the same thing...a 16 step drum sampler thing?

I don't think it has anything to do with the step sequencer, it's to do with what the artist likes.

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Re: Bengas drum beats.

Post by ogunslinger » Mon Nov 22, 2010 8:58 am

grooki wrote:
therook wrote:
ogunslinger wrote:pretty sure it's the sequencer in fl... + his experience
just my guess


seen him live a couple times, the only time he actually rocked the building was Benga & Skream on the same set

other than that.... ehhh
What does the fruity step sequencer have to do with anything? Isn't redrum kinda like the same thing...a 16 step drum sampler thing?

I don't think it has anything to do with the step sequencer, it's to do with what the artist likes.
pretty sure it's the sequencer in fl... + his experience
I find making my drums in FL is easier than other programs I've tried


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Re: Bengas drum beats.

Post by serox » Mon Nov 22, 2010 9:22 am

therook wrote:There is too much going on in his drums. I like mine simpler. Kick on 1 snare on 3. :6:
I think he has too much going on now days to but I dont like 1 kick/snare riddums! :u:
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Re: Bengas drum beats.

Post by serox » Mon Nov 22, 2010 9:28 am

Ok it has nothing to do with his step sequencer, or his daw.

He has loads of different hats going but they are in time with his beat. I hear loads of people on here who have hi hats going over a beat and it sounds out of time. Its all sync'd up but its not playing the same riddum. Its like you have your beat and have stuck some random hi hat (that sounds good alone) over the beat or something. The hats should be working with ur kick/snare to drive the track. You should be able to nod ur head to the beat and not have what sounds like two different drum riddums going at the same time.

Benga knows how to make a groove! hes been in the game a long time and has picked up a lot of real studio tips!
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