Also, to mimic a live drummer, make your drums inexcusably loud (especially the cymbals), play way too many drum fills/rolls and complain about how much equipment you have to carry while expecting accolades for doing so...
Or use a choke group and save having to delete them manually. Plus you can still get overlap if you just delete competing hats, whereas choked hats would kill the sustain of an open hat.
Boom bap is about FEELING not a specific tempo. Most boom bap beats are around 80-90bpm. But 177 divided in half is 88.5. So i’m still in the boom bap tempo range. I just like the bounce being in double time, gives me.
Moving the notes off grid is called, "nudging". Make sure you nudge each note separately. This is because a live drummer will be off a bit, but not exactly the same amount every time. Sometimes they may even be perfect. Nudging is not just about getting off grid, it's about humanizing. One way to do it is place everything perfectly on grid and highlight and nudge each hit separately. Or you could just play it like you did the open hi.
Just keep practicing and trying different ways of sampling. It will come to you, took me a while to get it when I first started as well. But watching videos & trying to sample EVERYTHING I could, I got it.
@@theycallmeheat first time i tried sample i didnt know where to start lol....i had to watch videos on here and keep practice. but im getting better tho..by the way thanks for sharing this video i appreciate it..
100th comment... And I have to say... Thanks so much... In a world saturated with trap beats this is a breath of fresh air.. Thanks again! Keep that golden age sound alive!!
Ayyyyee!!! Thanks man. Definitely going to keep the golden era alive. That’s what I came up on, that’s what I learned from. Thanks for watching man. 🙏🏽💯
@@theycallmeheat I didn't see you talk about tempo much I guess it really doesn't matter if you're gonna lay it out like that? I just started and I too would like to keep the golden age sound alive. Appreciate the videos and I'm definitely gonna watch more
i literally just made a boom bap beat after watching this video, if you wanna listen to how it sounds im going to drop my soundcloud link after i finish mixing and mastering it with vocals
No problem my man. Yep, I created this just to show HOW to create boom bap. So you can use these techniques with ANY daw or sampler, you may use. Thanks for watching. I greatly appreciate that. 💯
@@theycallmeheat of course! I actually just discovered your channel, do you have any tips/videos on how you chop up your samples? its so smooth here and your newest video!
Yeah I do have a video on how I chop my samples. (Link below) glad you found the channel man. Be sure to turn on notifications. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-cpjo1lMp8s8.html
TheyCallMeHeat - The Beat Majors will do! Thank you so much again for sending the link to the video. It’s great and I really appreciate it🙏🏼 can’t wait to see what you have in store!
Just fell on here and DAMN I'm sooooo stoked for my session tonight after these Gems. I've been playing music for the last 16 years and videos like this help me simplify my Productions. With that I say thank you sooooo much! Stay Creative
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I like boom bap hip hop and want to start creating, i work on maschine and just wanted to ask when you lay down drum pattern where does the kick and snare go. For example i set the tempo at 85 bpm so the kick is at 1 and the snare is is at 1.2, then then the other kick is at 1.3 and snare is at 1.4, then the other kick is at 2. And so on. Is that the correct way?
This is why I love your channel man; you really break shit down and teach. Sample reminds me of a Jake One type beat; and I've been lowkey stuck in beat block mode, and it's because of trap drums.
🙌🏾🙏🏽 thank you fam!! I’m more than grateful for the love. Yeah, I could hear Jake One chopping that joint up.. To lift that beat block, try to listen to other styles of music. It will def help, listen to moonchild, oddisee, kev brown, phony ppl. There’s sooo many more out there for you. 💯
Wow!! That’s amazing. I love hearing when I’ve inspired someone. I’m grateful for that, more than anything!! 💯 don’t ever stop, even when things look bad. Keep going. And work HARD. 💪🏾
Great video! Thank you very much! I have not musical note. From the sequência time clock, when you say "to push snares back" you mean "front", right? Because, looking thru time measurement, you're dragging them to hit a little bit earlier by the song time cursor. But you reffers to time position based on what did not was read by the DAW cursor yet. A very common way to think. Not wrong, but it may sound confuse for some. But you intelligenly did show how and what you really mean. So cool. Thax a lot!!!
I'd change the snare to something a little fuller and add some swing to the drums. And everybody nowadays thinks boom bap is all about the chill vibe. As a rapper, I'm looking for that raw wu tang or premier type beats. That chill stuff is for bed time
Hi i would like to ask if anyone could help me did he use a plugin or he just simply map the sound and velocities into his drumpads?If so how does he do it i really need guidance thank you :)
How do you make your kick or hi hat different velocities on your Midi Keypads? In other words, how do you make the same hi-hat sample play different velocities when pressing different keys?
How did you get the pads to affect velocities on the one shot drum sample for the kick. I have an fpc set up with different sounds but when im using the pads with my one shots it affects different pitches not velcoities
Thanks Jay!! Appreciate that fam. 💯 most keyboard are velocity sensitive, so the softer or harder you hit the keys or pads it will respond to that. As far as the “16 levels” my keyboard (Akai MPK249) had that special functionality.
@@theycallmeheatNo worries fam. Yeah my keyboard is velocity sensitive it just doesn't have the 16 levels feature like that. Nice to see someone killing it with hip hop instead of trap.
I loved this video so much! Yesterday I used fruity slicer for the first time and made a boom bap beat very similar to this, watching this felt like watching myself lol. Subbed.
Hi, I just wondering if u could show me how you programmed those drum sounds into each one of your pads? Coz I use FPC, and I lay them kicks, snares, hats accordingly. This is using FPC under one channel in the rack. So what happen was, when I record a hats for ex. then I record kicks, juz to find a sound. The piano roll will automatically erase my previous hats sounds to record the kicks. So it would be very much helpful, if you could show me how you programmed your drum sounds to each one of your pads. Thank you!
I'm digging it love the boom bap. I am a Christian Rapper and would love rock a boom bap gospel beat on my next album. You down to lay it down? What your website? What your price?
Thank you Kev!! I appreciate that fam. As far as beats, the prices are right on the site, my beat store link is bit.ly/2cvS1t0 Check it out & let me know what you think
I'm having a really hard time getting my beat to swing as hard as yours XD. Hehe. When you quantize, do you quantize to 1/16 or something else? No sure how it works in FL.
It’s not about the quantize. It’s about the feel. Boom Bap is about a feeling, quantize is a computer. You don’t want any robotic feel in your beats. I quantize my snares and MAYBE my kicks depending on how I want the drums to sound/feel.
wow...had to subscribe...dope...planning to get FL 20 to install on my mac mini...I see you using FL on a PC...you using shift and right or left arrow to move notes....will it be the same on Mac?...dope tutorial....will be nice to have one on how you chop your samples....
My controller has 16 levels. So I can set my pads to play from low velocity to higher starting from Pad 1. It’s a feature with pretty much all Akai controllers.
This backpack soul not boom bap, more like blackstar, tribe, j dilla, hi tek, etc. Boom bap is more hardcore like DJ premier, black moon, krs one, mobb deep but these drums are sick and groove is tight. The tutorial is well done, lots of info
helpful video! Thank you. how did you map the fixed velocity kick to those drum pads? it seems i can only get it to work with how hard i hit the button
Your ghost notes are in the swing position right? You could swing it a bit and get that groove right? Or are your ghost notes on the down beat sometimes? Is it better to stagger those notes in a slightly different position each time as to give it more of a humanized groove? I'm really interested in your input. Are you using velocity sensitive pads to get the difference in velocity? Your approach is top notch for sure.
I rather stager each not differently. drummers never depend on "swing" so if the 3rd kick is off, thats just what it is. I do use velocity sensitive pads so I can have that human feel. Cause you wont always hit hihats, etc the same way all the time.
I love your confidence but this kind of misses the mark with boom bap. Besides unquantized drums, tempo range and a (almost too squeaky clean) gospel sample, this really shares nothing else in common with the sound of boom bap. And while ghost notes, velocity & taking quantization off is huge step, the beat still has to have groove, which this really doesn't capture, much less MASTER. You can only go so far in getting drums to groove by just raw takes & playing with velocity/nudging like this. 90% of boom bap sound comes from the mix and how your drums interact with each other & the sample. Boom bap got its sound from unorthodox mixing by blasting drum input gains into 12bit samplers, giving the drums that super desired warm gritty, yet smooth sound. It smoothed and sustained transients, literally giving its BOOM BAP name. Nothing to do with nudging or sample selection (plenty of dope boom bap is psychedelic/rock crate dug). Most early boom bap WAS quantized with samplers but then dilla made it popular to go with out. While I agree with you that you don't need specific pre-processed drums, by using drum hits with more texture (instead of out the box clean sounds like in this vid) even with quantization that super hot input gain gives your drum bus unintentional sidechaining and makes it groove. It's not about "how you program the drums more than anything" it's about how you mix your drums. You totally CAN make a boom bap beat with trap drums but unless you know what your doing with transient shaping, saturation and compression it's most likely going to sound like garbage because those super truncated hits won't capture the sound palette of the era/genre. This video is a great and well explained aspect of beginning to emulate boom bap but off base on a few things my man. Much love and keep grinding away and contributing.
Can you give some tips on sampling for boom bap? sampling is a huge part of the boom bap style and I can't seem to chop up my samples as well as you seem to be able to. It's really affecting my sound and it's something I really need to improve on
I have a fee videos that kind of give tips on how to chop your samples. You should check out my last video. I talk about counting bars when it comes to chopping samples. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ENohKr1Y-fs.html
i honestly dont quantize anything. not one thing. when i first started making beats, and i make nothing but boom bap beats, i couldnt get the timing down right when i would quantize and it was frustrating, so i said, fuck it, i starting making beats with no time, that really takes some time to get used to but once you get it you wont quantize shit anymore! lol
I see you ain't playin'....keep it up... that "Be greatful" sample took a cat back to the 3rd grade....moms use to play that joint all the time.....how does one buy one of your tracks?
What’s going on fam? ..No games to be played!! Gotta keep the culture alive. 💯 thanks for watching. That joint is a classic.. You can purchase any of beats from my website, theycallmeheat.com 🙏🏽
There’s no “tips or tricks” to finding samples. I have trained my ear over the years. One thin g I did do though, was try to recreate my favorite producers beats. So I did that for a little bit & developed an ear that allowed me to create how I do now. Hope this fam. 💯
how do you set up the pad to have velocity change? i tried youtubing it but no one seems to know what i'm asking and you have it setup like its nothing.
Open your daw and lay the pattern down. You may not have the same sounds Havoc had in that beat. But you can change it out for your own sounds. Then you will have your own drum loop as well 😉
I prefer the “natural” swing. Actual drummers are NEVER on time. When you listen to artists like the roots, they never quantized there drums because it was played live. But to each his own. 💯 thanks for watching fam.
I absolutely agree. I simply don't like it when it's overdone and every hit is completely off. Also, placing the snare a little later instead of earlier could be a nice twist. Anyway, nice video and keep going :D
