Drumstep/DnB drum patterns ?

[[and]obey]

Oy all you dubheads,

I recently came across drumstep (which is drumwise essentially DnB with accents on 1 and 3 i think) and am now trying to figure out how to create drum loops like that. Like, what bpm do i go with ? What sounds do I use ? What patterns are common ?

My drums tend to sound very messy and like nothing more than sped up dubstep loops which makes them sound too fast.
I didn't post this on a DnB forum because I think it is more closely related to dubstep...

Here's an example for the kinda pattern I want to make (Hits at 00:44):



Anybody got advice ?

Much Love

[bRRRz]

I'd choose 170-180 bpm and just like you said: kick on 1, snare on 3, some additional kicks to give it a groove and then fill it up with hats/shakers/cymbals, really not that hard.

[Dystinkt]

It literally is a dubstep beat at 170-80 bpm, maybe use a more dnb style for percussion hats etc and your good.

[grooki]

Here's an example for the kinda pattern I want to make (Hits at 00:44):

Honestly, these tracks make me lol

On a serious note, You could try speed up a dubstep beat, but I'd head over to Dogs On Acid, you will get much more constructive info on using breaks to get that DnB shuffle.

[Aphile]

Here's an example for the kinda pattern I want to make (Hits at 00:44):

Honestly, these tracks make me lol

On a serious note, You could try speed up a dubstep beat, but I'd head over to Dogs On Acid, you will get much more constructive info on using breaks to get that DnB shuffle.

This track makes kids shit themselves in the club. I've witnessed it.

SO much snobbish hating on these forums it pains me. I enjoy your chilled out production in your sig, but at the same time drumstep makes my feet go

I guess I should seriously input now too. Loop up a 1 and 3 and start changing the BPM. Try weird stuff. Add a couple off time kicks perhaps and youll get a funkier shuffle. Dont discredit half timing either. Figure and WIll Bailey did a track at 93, which is the same as 186. Their drum structure is 1 and 3 with a kick usually just before the snare. The tracks called move if you dont know it peek it

[deadly_habit]

just make a simple dnb 2 step style beat and remove one of the snare or layer a dubstep beat over a dnb hat pattern at around 175
boom new genre

[grooki]

Honestly, these tracks make me lol

On a serious note, You could try speed up a dubstep beat, but I'd head over to Dogs On Acid, you will get much more constructive info on using breaks to get that DnB shuffle.

This track makes kids shit themselves in the club. I've witnessed it.

SO much snobbish hating on these forums it pains me. I enjoy your chilled out production in your sig, but at the same time drumstep makes my feet go

Hey I don't doubt this makes people lose their shit. I just find it funny how the build up is huge, and then mayhem begins, it's classic, I just find it amusing. It's like when some thing classic happens in a movie, sometimes that makes me laugh.

I'm not hating, I'm dancing

[lyons238]

drumstep makes my feet go as well. at the last dubstep show i went to the dj was playing a lot of drumstep and with the combo of the drumstep and me being geeked the fuck out i almost threw up from dancing so much. <3 drumstep

[deadly_habit]

don't get me started on how retarded a name drumstep is and how it's just halftime dnb with a new label

tunes like this have stood the test of time and get anyone brocking out

[RandoRando]

Why can't all the genres just get along .

[grooki]

Why can't all the genres just get along .

[Turnipish_Thoughts]

Why can't all the genres just get along .

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