Welcome to Kahn's channel, where we strive to provide great reggae content. Whether it's techniques on production, piano, bass, guitar, percussions, drums, vocals... we have you covered! Thank you for stopping by and we hope you enjoy your time on this channel.
Reggae comes with a feel yuh nuh aka (you know) as Bob would say. Im from St. CATHERINE JAMAICA WEST INDIES. IM NOW HERE IN THE USA 43 YRS AND IM A RANGLIN YES DANA RANGLIN IS MY NAME AND ERNEST RANGLIN THE GUITARIST FROM🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲 I LEARNED FROM. I PLAY DRUMS,BASS,RYTHEM AND LEAD GUITAR,HAMMOND ORGAN AND KEYBOARDS PIANO ETC. PLUS I SING TOO.
Thank you! One of my young music students (age 12) has written 7 reggae songs, and performs out at local bars and restaurants (covers & originals). I’ll be accompanying him on Keys at our next show. Thanks for helping me learn this style of music so I can support him. Having a lot of fun learning reggae. 😁
I just grabbed the One Drop Reggae Drum Sample Pack in the nick of time as this month comes to an end! I decided that maybe it's a blessing that I have to build my own kits from these samples. I am going to create the ultimate kit piece instruments by laying out the samples over the keyboard so that I can play more versatile parts and get exactly the samples I need to create the perfect parts. Who needs a MIDI map to restrict maximum playability? These samples sound so good. I will look forward to getting the samples of the snare with the snare wires active, as recorded in your new studio, so that I have a Rockers snare option as well!
Thanks for your support man. I actually looked into hiring the guy who did the Riddim pack for me in Kontakt but he didn’t get back to me in time. I still will probably do the “all in one” in a Kontakt 5 or 6 file in the future. Appreciate your kind words bro
You could drop them into GB but it wouldn’t be very efficient. Better to load them straight into Logic where you can play them on the keyboard straightaway
This may sound weird, but my 6-year old autistic son has been watching this video on repeat for a few days now. Carefully studying, and replicating the piano and organ technique on his own piano. He's also not fully verbal (in speech therapy), but he will come up to me and demand "DM Kahn!!!"
Man great video! Regarding swing, I am a bit confused. Should swing be applied to all the different instruments / tracks or to certain tracks so the interplay between them produce the right feel?
The quick answer to this is “yes” but with an asterisk. Basically the hi hat is what dictates the overall amount of swing. Typically the bubble organ (if there is one) should match this quite closely, and if there is a “chicka” guitar the “a” part should also match the hi hat. But here’s where the asterisk comes in. The groove/swing doesn’t necessarily have to match perfectly. It should sound human, so not exactly aligned to that swing # in the DAW, but near it, as to sound more realistic. I’ve also heard some songs that have different elements, some swung a lot more than others. I’ve even heard songs that are rather straight but with the horn lines super swung. The thing about this is, most of those musicians back in the day in JA were just playing off feel. Feeling is what’s needed here, and it’s hard to completely describe. I think by you just asking this question, you are further into the understanding than someone who doesn’t care enough to raise it. Experiementation is what’s needed, as well as studying some of those old songs from JA. Cheers man and thanks for stopping by!
@@DMKahn Thanks a lot for your time spent to reply to my question and for the quality of your answer! Yes I am trying to find the right feel in a couple of bars within a few tracks , keeping it simple in order to understand how it works. I am not a player therefore I have to spend a lot of time on the pianoroll of my DAW. Cheers!
If you buy the Riddim Pack, it comes with a sampler already set up in Logic, Ableton, and Kontakt Full. You just load up the session/ sampler that comes with pack and it is already mapped to the keyboard. I have another video that shows the pack in more depth: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VASFfp77_gs.htmlsi=B9lbYDmNj2hOGRNU
how do you load the piano, hammond and guitar onto the sampler to play from a MIDI device? My samples are a dark color and won't load. And my sampler is green while yours is blue. thanks big up...
Are you in Logic? If so just open the logic file for a single instrument, it should play fine on your keyboard right away. then do a “save as” and save it into your libraries. Do that for all 3 instruments, then you can open up a new file and load any of the 3 sampler instruments
@@DMKahn Nothing wrong with a clicker! Relatedly, recognise the piano and guitar chops in this? The mix could be tighter (bass a bit too heavy) but for a debut... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-e0U9tO1BMKo.html
Omg if only I could have seen your demonstration of how swing works at 6mins when I started music!! Fantastic demonstration of the difference of a swung and rigid beat!! Genius
Hey bro I’m planning on just keeping this specifically for the video, not looking for vocals at this time. Appreciate your comment and checking out the video though man! cheers
@@DMKahnI'd love to do a collaboration with you one day, your tracks are always tight. I've already written all the lyrics for this. I'll record it anyway and pop you a link somewhere or another 😊😊
Another good one! I just went to look at buying the One Drop Reggae Drum Sample Pack, because it sounds like a must-have. But there is no indication of these samples being arranged into an instrument (Kontakt?) and ready to play as you just demonstrated in this video. I want to assume it comes with a Kontakt instrument or some kind of player of some kind. Can you please confirm? The major selling point of this library would be that it is ready to work with so that we can immediately lay down drum tracks like you did here, or use it with other MIDI drum grooves. As fantastic as this sounds, building yet another instruments from scratch from a collection of one shot samples is not very appealing, especially when there are multiple velocities for the main kit pieces. Please confirm that an instrument(s) are provided. Thanks!
Hi brother, the one drop sample pack works in Logic and Ableton. The Riddim Pack works in Logic, Ableton, and full Kontakt. The Riddim pack is the one that has all the functionality with round robins and dual articulations, therefore I thought it best to make it usable in Kontakt. Note in order to make any sample pack to be able to be used in “free Kontakt”, it requires a licence from Native Instruments and is tens of thousands of dollars, so I had to make it for full Kontakt. I hope this is acceptable to most people as it’s about as good as I could do given I am not a plug-in developer. Cheers!!
@@DMKahn - I already own the Riddim Pack and I own the full version of Kontakt. If you haven't done so already, why not build the One Drop Drum Samples into a Kontakt instrument that matches whatever mapping you have in whatever instrument version of the drums you were using in this video? Why leave out so many people with different DAWs? Most people have a paid version of Kontakt. If not, they should. Just please avoid Kontakt 7 or I still cannot use it. I own Kontakt 7, but it won't run on my OS. I suggest building in Kontakt 5 or mid-v6 so that everyone with Kontakt can easily use it. Thanks!
@@DMKahn Thats a bummer that they do it like that, I suppose you;ve looked into creating your own VSTs... I don't even knoiw what's involved in that but it would circumvent the Kontact ransom.
For a more family barret bass sound, I would put the right hand fingers over the 2 last frets 😉 thank you for the discount and great sound. Happy bithday
Thanks bro, you’re definitely right, Family Man did play a lot of his songs like that sometimes even using his thumb. For this video I was going for a tone with more mid range, in order that could be easy to hear on a cell phone.
