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I was wondering if you guys had any tips for drumstep? I created a normal dubstep drum pattern and then upped the BPM to 180, would that be the right way to go about it? Not many resources on this genre.

Any help would be highly appreciated.

At the risk of sounding ignorant... do you have an example of this "drumstep"?

make drum and bass
halftime the drums
call it a new genre
????
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deadly habit wrote:make drum and bass
halftime the drums
call it a new genre
????
profit

This

no no no you're going about it all wrong kermit.. first create a nice drum and bass rhythm... slice an amen and get some hats playing 16th notes.. then just shift the kick and snare over so it's half time. then put in filthy bass.

intro .. kick roll.. sample.. drop

done

stompzi wrote:At the risk of sounding ignorant... do you have an example of this "drumstep"?

deadly habit wrote:make drum and bass
halftime the drums
call it a new genre
????
profit

I would of thought you guys would be more open minded?

KermitDubstep wrote:I was wondering if you guys had any tips for drumstep? I created a normal dubstep drum pattern and then upped the BPM to 180, would that be the right way to go about it? Not many resources on this genre.

Any help would be highly appreciated.

yes this is the correct way, do this exact thing everytime, this is what every other drumstep producer does. dont do anything else, that will be wrong now wont it.

narcissus wrote:no no no you're going about it all wrong kermit.. first create a nice drum and bass rhythm... slice an amen and get some hats playing 16th notes.. then just shift the kick and snare over so it's half time. then put in filthy bass.

intro .. kick roll.. sample.. drop

done

Ah, cheers, anything else?

That tune in your sig looks like it's been limited wayyyyyy too hard.

KermitDubstep wrote:

deadly habit wrote:make drum and bass
halftime the drums
call it a new genre
????
profit

I would of thought you guys would be more open minded?

What would make you think that and how is it closed minded ?

upstateface wrote:That tune in your sig looks like it's been limited wayyyyyy too hard.

I didn't limit it at all?

upstateface wrote:That tune in your sig looks like it's been limited wayyyyyy too hard.

sounds like it too

Just for reference, how I was doing them before (I chucked this up quickly, don't criticize it for its production value).
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people just love to moan about what drumstep really is. It's funny cos maybe it is just a renamed genre, but really at the end of the day does it actually matter? The likes of Reso and Rusko have accepted the genre, it's really not that hard to accept it is it? :p

EDIT

reso's labelled his latest wip 'drumstep', im not really a fan of the genre but this tune is pretty epic

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agreed.. sometimes my friend and i make drumstep for the fuck of it..

yeah a name is just a name

it's nothing new, but it's wicked that the style has found a new popularity and people are going off in pretty cool directions with it

if it takes a stupid name to do that then maybe that's a good thing?

i dont care what its called, if its good, its good, and that reso tune is good. rusko - hold on (sub foucs remix) is shit.
is this classed as drumstep then or not?:

that's just good old atmospheric drum and bass

an important thing to remember is that dubstep rhythms are all about the triplets and the quads and how they skip around each other. Drum and bass is pretty much all 1/4, 1/8, 1/16, 1/32, etc. If you doubled a dubstep beat it wouldn't quite sound right for this reason. One thing that I see a lot of people get wrong is the high hats. Layer them and keep it very busy. I've heard a lot of songs that sound like the HHs are pitched and the producer is using 4 different pitched high hats instead of just one doing 32nds (for instance)

reso's labelled his latest wip 'drumstep', im not really a fan of the genre but this tune is pretty epic

in my opinion, his previous drumstep called "technetium" is better, but this is decent also.

And my WIP drumstep style track. I know, its little bit cheesy but its intended.
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