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chewie wrote:Use some chopped up breaks and ghost notes maybe a bit of percussion but don't make it sound like something from the lion king.

HEY! *Always* try and make it sound like something from the lion king.

Rule number 1.

paravrais wrote:

chewie wrote:Use some chopped up breaks and ghost notes maybe a bit of percussion but don't make it sound like something from the lion king.

HEY! *Always* try and make it sound like something from the lion king.

Rule number 1.

add bare drums and other things like shakers

Aye, layer your drums. Especially floor toms, I use like 15 floor toms in every tune I do. Big fat toms with phasers and reverb and everything. You think you're using too many floor toms? You're probably not using enough. And hats, layer your hats with other hats, snares, bass drums etc.

I don't really know what this thread is about, but I enjoyed that moment of hysteria.

Rolling precussion.

therapist wrote:Aye, layer your drums. Especially floor toms, I use like 15 floor toms in every tune I do. Big fat toms with phasers and reverb and everything. You think you're using too many floor toms? You're probably not using enough. And hats, layer your hats with other hats, snares, bass drums etc.

I don't really know what this thread is about, but I enjoyed that moment of hysteria.

That made me laugh. Seeing as its 8:20am thats pretty impressive.

can anyone give me any good examples of rolling percussion?

Dub Mons wrote:can anyone give me any good examples of rolling percussion?

Pretty much anything by Burial or Shackleton.

have you tried the tempo button? or you could try filling in the gaps with percs!

therapist wrote:I use like 15 floor toms in every tune I do. Big fat toms with phasers and reverb and everything. You think you're using too many floor toms? You're probably not using enough.

what if you use none?

Johnst wrote:

therapist wrote:I use like 15 floor toms in every tune I do. Big fat toms with phasers and reverb and everything. You think you're using too many floor toms? You're probably not using enough.

what if you use none?

Your tunes are probably whack then and you should give up.

Johnst wrote:

therapist wrote:I use like 15 floor toms in every tune I do. Big fat toms with phasers and reverb and everything. You think you're using too many floor toms? You're probably not using enough.

what if you use none?

Then you're doing it ALL WRONG! Duh!

JFK wrote:

Dub Mons wrote:can anyone give me any good examples of rolling percussion?

Pretty much anything by Burial or Shackleton.

I wouldn't call Burial rolling percussion or fast paced :\ good percussion yes, but rolling? I always thought rolling beats were more like Benga or 501...

If it's rolling eats re; Benga I think it's made a lot easier with a step sequencer, he's an FL drums man isn't he. You can see very easily where the gaps in your beat are and just plug them with various hats/hits/shakers and so on. His beats are often the same in several tracks and sometimes too busy but it's a really cool sound.

I always think you should be able to hear that rhythm going when you mute the kick/snare. (for this kind of beat)

^ that made me lol

chewie wrote:Use some chopped up breaks and ghost notes maybe a bit of percussion but don't make it sound like something from the lion king.

(pun intended)
or DON'T use halfstep-rhythms (inb4 "but then it would be garage")

hasezwei wrote:

chewie wrote:Use some chopped up breaks and ghost notes maybe a bit of percussion but don't make it sound like something from the lion king.

(pun intended)
or DON'T use halfstep-rhythms (inb4 "but then it would be garage")

Not necessarily, full time genres that can be made at 140 include garage, jungle, uk funky, grime, house, IDM, breakbeat etc etc it *probably* won't be dubstep if your making something with a fulltime drum beat though. I don't understand why people get so upset when they make a track that isn't dubstep, it's not like the track is any different. Not everything has to be dubstep you know XD If you wanna make something fulltime then just do it and its OK if that means it isn't dubstep. You don't have to have a little cry about it XD

basically all i meant was: "if your music sounds slow make it faster", and that can be accomplished by simply having fulltime drums. that way it still fits the bpm range and can be played in dubstep sets. the oldest dubstep tunes i know are fulltime, so why would you go and say it isn't dubstep if it's 138-ish and would fit in a dubstep set?

i kinda get your point with not caring what people call your music but at the same time i just don't like this whole tagging shit, i've been doing that too thanks to last.fm but nowadays it's just annoying. i just hate when people say "this isn't dubstep. this is house or something" when i play "strange fruit" because it has a 4 to the floor drumbeat rather than halfstep.