Learn these 909 Beats! 7 Iconic Beats Recreated 

On Hunter what Mark Bell and Björk are doing is that that they use the combinations of accents to have four different levels of accents and create swells. So unaccented, global accent, accented and accented + global accent is used to have four levels of accents in that order to create an effect of a roll that gets louder. So when you are doing the unaccented, accented, unaccented, accented series of four beats that you have a couple of times, then BOTH the second ones should have a global accent, and then you get that swelling roll Hunter has. Other than that, good job!

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Hi hello. I am a musician / female producer and audio engineer, bassist. (Trained, interned, worked in analog board / outboard tape op studios during the 90s through early 2k’s). We exist. I have the tr8s and the tr-09. I found as much as I love the both of them I have been playing drums in real time on my mpc live with the time control off for a lot of projects these days. Came here for some juice and inspiration to go back into the tr8s and do some programming. I’m from the era, so really nice to see this break down of hunter, etc. thank you.

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This is the best drum machine tutorial I’ve seen. You get right to it. No bs. You show and tell every step, and that really helps when one is still struggling to learn the controls by heart. This is so great to have these Classic beats correctly executed, and given to us so complete. Thank you! The Björk beat was brilliant! I love how she made the 909 morph into Björk’s minion.

amazing ! a great throwback to revolution 909 , needed to play it right after - and you hit the spot, good job on hearing and finding the right swing amount !

Revolution 909 is such classic, always happy to hear that

The Hunter,one of the best songs ever, and always wondered how that beat was made.

Fabulous! As 80s/90s kid I have a soft spot for these grooves. Vogue, Keep on Moving , Good life are my absolute favourites. Thanks for clear instructions, any quick-witted wanna-be producer can make use of it on any drum machine. Greetings form Poland, Dude!

Ahhh the classics, thank you!

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This is gold. You must do more. With other drum machines and new patterns

Another female 909 fan checking in 😉 tbh I haven’t seen your channel before, but this video came up in my recommended & I’m glad it did!

I really appreciate this. I'm always looking for inspiration. Very informative 🎉

My first love. The 909!

Amazing how you can keep yourself from tweaking the snare while hunter patterns play :)

Thanks so much for this great video, I was here for the Bjork pattern but its all really interesting to see.

I don't even have a TR-909 but found this demonstration super helpful for making beats/grooves in abelton. Thanks!

Thank you so much for this great video! 😄

Great. Thx so much. Will try em out on tr8s and drumbrute. Lokking forward thx again!

What a beautiful looking 909. That thing has held up well.

Excellent walk through! Still to date now in 2024 I still consider myself dawless minus a few small synth apps on 4 separate tablets each having their own channel on a multi board. Step sequence will never be replaced in my method as those drum machines are still in my regular setup.

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"Vogue!" Hehe, I remember it was one of the first grooves I put into Octamed,l an 8 track tracker on the Amiga back in the early 90:s. Before I got to own any real Synth or drum machines. Got the 909-sounds from other songs made in Octamed... It really had that fantastic groove and together with Technotronics it really put the 909 into use for the more commercial dance music. Kinda started the "euro dance" sound of the 90:s. And the dance sound in general. These iconic hihat and snare patterns! Yes, blackbox kind of did it too with "ride on time" , but it was a mixture of other drum sounds with mostly just 909 snares and maybe hihats.

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Nice, thanks. Appreciate your excellent beat making. I have a Drum Brute with a similar set up. But I also use loops sometimes and then add to them for a custom beat.

Moving from here, absolute classic

I’m with everyone else here. Great job. Keep them coming. Dig deep … explore more patterns(please) and other drum machines

Best 909 video!

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I also love Bjork very much.

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That’s a beautiful 909

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I used to mix Revolution 909 & God Is A DJ together in sets!

I’m also a female. I have a rd-9 I’m learning to use. :-) thanks for the demo on the og machine. Awesome

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Curious, do the knob settings like decay etc, do they save with each pattern? Or do you have to change the knob settings to your liking for different patterns?

Great job!, shame none are songs that I’m particularly fond of. Hope to this is successful enough you consider doing other classic80s 909 songs,

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Machine looks near mint condition! Good demo here.

Can we do CR-78, TR-808, TR-707, DMX, and LM-1 drumbeats next?😄

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I am programming 909 samples into my s2000 i wonder if i can make these loops in my s2000?

it would be a great video without the tutorials but having them is just the icing on the cake 👌

I'm a female and just wanted to say thank you, great video!

Nice tutorial though. Vogue, no snare? Two times closed hhat?

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Where would you place Poing from Rotterdam Termination Source and the music from Atari Teenage Riot? These 2 acts used/uses the TR-909 all the time. Please let me know.

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Great stuff. Although, I was waiting for you to filter the snappiness of the snare for “The Hunter”!

Can u drop some house beats that you like on a tr o 8. ( 808 ). House .. funk .. cheers happy easter

on the headhunter song, were the global accents already stepped in? Because I don't see you touching the Global accent (total accent)button.

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13:30 near the climax of the song he changes up the pattern a bit, with different accents maybe? and probably adjusts the knobs or mixer EQ, because the snares get to have a really sharp "back and forth" sound on some performances (also compare the Portishead song "machine gun") ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-hDzAyu8i9Wo.html

it misses a 5th pattern with only the accented snare on 1 4 7 10 - but then i think there might also be another pattern with BD -6th that changes back to 5th at the end of the track, near 3min 20 - it's fun :)

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Thanks for the video. Did people here actually try out to program these beats as explained in the video? If I do, I get completely different beats from the ones sounding in the video. You're missing some steps in your tutorial, and mix up terms like open and closed hi hats. A bit confusing...!

The Bjork pattern feels like metal drums

Hey I am a female producer and your initial statement actually surprised me. Especially that the video is only 1month old.

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The #RolandTR909 is my religion, for real. I adore its sound and groove and also the workflow and its "limited" but for sure not limiting feature set 🙂 --- One thing I noticed immediately is that you have the Total Accent knob all the way up! Which literally KICKS A**, hehe. But you're not really using the total accent "instrument", right? Why so?

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How did you copy the measure 4 times?

How did you know the bpm of songs?

Man, more drum pattern lessons please!!!

Madonna "Vogue" IMHO is one of the best commercial dance tracks of all time.

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Hi, I am a woman and we exist :d I would love to see the same content with 808 if you have one... Good job!!!!!

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I miss that time when there were few equipment options but it was a more creative time...

Hi at 01:02 you say let’s select our closed hat and at 01:13 you say let’s now switch to the closed hat 🤔

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The 909 is 40 years old now ! Hard to believe those thumping beats it became synonymous with, ‘could’ have been made as long ago as 1983! They just weren’t 🤷‍♂️

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Great overview of those iconic beats! I can forget about that cringy introduction.

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7:19 the bpm is 126

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No rest in peace for Mark Bell? Okay then.

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