moombahton basic drum arrangement?

skyh · Post by **skyh** » Sat Sep 10, 2011 4:01 pm

I've been playing around with the moombahton sound a little bit but I can't seem to fully grasp the drums. Can anyone shed some light on some standard kick and snare placements?

wub · Post by **wub** » Sat Sep 10, 2011 4:06 pm

Off the top of my head, have you tried taking a short (16 bar-ish) loop of a Moombahton track you like, looping it in something like Audacity, then slowing it right down. Zoom in on the waveform (I recommend using the intro of a track for this), and you'll be able to see the different hits and hear them at a much slower tempo. Then simple try and recreate it in your DAW.

Alternatively, bearing in mind Moombahton is basically Dutch House down at about 108bpm (give or take a few tweaks, obv), then maybe a Dutch House programming tutorial on YouTube might be a good starting point;

You can then adapt it down to a slower BPM, and make any necessary changes. Apologies, video is FL specific.

skyh · Post by **skyh** » Sat Sep 10, 2011 4:25 pm

Thanks I totally figured it out finally thanks to your help!

skimpi · Post by **skimpi** » Sat Sep 10, 2011 4:37 pm

kick on 1 snare on 3

Ayatollah · Post by **Ayatollah** » Sat Sep 10, 2011 8:34 pm

take a roska tune and pitch it down, instant moombahton edit

zerbaman · Post by **zerbaman** » Sun Sep 11, 2011 2:42 am

skimpi wrote:kick on 1 snare on 3

Noooooooo. Kicks always go on 8

wub · Post by **wub** » Sun Sep 11, 2011 7:16 am

skyhigh wrote:Thanks I totally figured it out finally thanks to your help!

skyh · Post by **skyh** » Sun Sep 11, 2011 10:31 pm

I don't think I put my snare on 3 or 8, lol.

skimpi · Post by **skimpi** » Mon Sep 12, 2011 12:12 am

skyhigh wrote:I don't think I put my snare on 3 or 8, lol.

im afraid you aint made moombahton then, i dont care what it sounds like, even if it does sound like moombahton, it aint, cos you havent stuck to the strict rules of snare on 3 and 8!

WereWolf · Post by **WereWolf** » Mon Sep 12, 2011 1:01 am

skimpi wrote:
skyhigh wrote:I don't think I put my snare on 3 or 8, lol.
im afraid you aint made moombahton then, i dont care what it sounds like, even if it does sound like moombahton, it aint, cos you havent stuck to the strict rules of snare on 3 and 8!

I thought they were suppost to be on 4 and 7???

Artie_Fufkin · Post by **Artie_Fufkin** » Mon Sep 12, 2011 3:56 am

So it's just the ubiquitous latin groove?

narcissus · Post by **narcissus** » Mon Sep 12, 2011 4:41 am

lol yup. what i thought when i first heard moombah was.... "oh great... somebody electro-ized reggaeton ... i really hope this doesn't get big"

Reamz · Post by **Reamz** » Mon Sep 12, 2011 10:57 am

Fuck you Dave Nada

Perfecture · Post by **Perfecture** » Mon Sep 12, 2011 3:37 pm

If you want to know about how the drum rhythm is for Moombahton and the patterns, Listen to something like
Skrillex - Reptile OR Knife Party - Zoology.

kikaida · Post by **kikaida** » Mon Sep 12, 2011 4:38 pm

Reamz wrote:Fuck you Dave Nada

haha

Bresson · Post by **Bresson** » Tue Sep 13, 2011 2:26 pm

Its actually snares on the offbeat, where you'd normally put the hi hat in house/techno/trance etc. The only difference I heard (I didnt really listen to too much I just listened to a couple tunes and ive heard a lot of reggaeton/Major Lazer), is that the first snare is swung right before the second kick. Heres what I got

https://dl-web.dropbox.com/get/Public/m ... w=9d2884ba

and heres what it looks like

https://dl-web.dropbox.com/get/Public/S ... w=d39781de

Now if i were to actually make a tuine like that, obviously i would use a different kick to get that house sound, but i hear a lot of that tight acoustic snare in the genre as it is, so i kept it with that

skyh · Post by **skyh** » Tue Sep 13, 2011 3:41 pm

check the tune in my sig for my recently updated (just now) moombahton

-[2]DAY_- · Post by **-[2]DAY_-** » Tue Sep 13, 2011 4:47 pm

only a matter of time before us white folks cannibalized all our club music and descended upon that of the latinos ;p

jk.. btw i like the groove in your track, seems that you have the general idea down. more syncopated percussion, imho, would do wonders

skyh · Post by **skyh** » Tue Sep 13, 2011 5:18 pm

hell yeah i dont really even know what syncopated percussion is? ive researched it before but I guess i never really figured it out. any tips??

dromtrund · Post by **dromtrund** » Tue Sep 13, 2011 9:38 pm

For the bouncy kickpattern, I usually go with a long subkick on the 4ths, and some wellplaced, snappy kicks on the halfbeats.
Just my two cents:)

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