To make a simple drum beat, you just need to play something on the drums that is easy to remember and play. Crash cymbals have an effective crashing sound to end off phrases of grooves. Finally, the crash cymbal is the last popular sound. The high-pitched chick tone is great for driving grooves. Bass drums act as the heartbeats of grooves and provide thuddy low-end sounds. The next most used sound would be the bass drum. Snare drums provide the backbeat to grooves and keep them moving. The most used sound would arguably be the snare drum. This means the 4 most commonly used drum sounds will be the drums used to play those grooves. What are the 4 most commonly used drum sounds?ĭrums are centered around playing grooves. It fits in most songs that have straightforward structures. It involves playing 8th notes on the hi-hat, kicks on beats 1 and 3, and snares on beats 2 and 4.Īlthough this beat is relatively easy to learn, it’s one of the most used beats in music. Editing in the piano roll allows you to make variations on MIDI parts.The basic drum beat is the classic beat that every drummer learns when they first start playing. So he highlighted some notes, and then deleted them to make a more sparse synth. Soundtrap gives you two options in this view: 1) Instrument, which means you can add notes to it, or 2) Piano Roll, which means you can add or delete notes. To do that, you double-click on the track (in this case, the track with the synth part). For the synth, he opens up the MIDI clip. He began the key variation at the 8-bar section at bar 17, and then again later on in the beat.Īt bar 33, he creates a breakdown in the beat. He did that so the same melody doesn’t repeat from start to finish in the beat, to add variation in the melody. For eight bars at a time, OBaH changes the key of the synth part from G major to A major. How does he do that? When you mouse over a MIDI clip in Soundtrap, you’ll see the Edit option appear. The synth starts at the beginning of the track, but at bar 17, the key changes. He also removed a few notes from the melody when he did a breakdown in the beat. He did a few things at one point in the beat, he changed the key of the synth. OBaH found a nice synth loop in the loop library called Final Boss, and didn’t change too much about it. We also want to show that anyone can make a quality beat in Soundtrap without being a trained musician, and loops are great for this. The premade loops showcase the type of quality sounds that come in Soundtrap. OBaH’s sounds come from pre-made loops found in the Soundtrap loop library. It is the producer’s ability to pick out complimentary sounds, and to arrange, edit and mix those sounds, that makes the difference between an okay beat and a really good one. The elements that make up trap music are pretty simple. In the video above, OBaH discusses trap music techniques and some cool creative strategies for your productions. His sound is the trap sound: syncopated, heavy drum programming, booming 808 basses, simple melodies and harmonies, as well as a nice mixdown to complement the vocalist. He’s produced tracks for every major artist in the genre.
Metro Boomin is one of the top trap producers right now. Today we are going to create a Metro Boomin type beat using Soundtrap.
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