Rhythm Training | LEVEL UP your skills for creating, analyzing and transcribing beats
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- čas přidán 15. 06. 2024
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A lot of people asked us how to get better at bringing your beat ideas from your brain into the drum machine. Here are some short and easy rhythm exercises to get you started on your way to mastering any 16 step sequencer.
Featured drum pattern (transcription available on Patreon):
Devo - Big Mess
Gear used:
Polyend Play
Behringer RD-8
Dübreq Stylophone
Native Instruments Komplete Kontrol M32
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#beats #drummachine #electronicmusic #synthesizer #tutorial #education
0:00 Introduction
1:09 Basics
2:18 Where's the Snare?
5:22 Spot the Mistake
6:56 You are the Sequencer
8:32 Too Easy?
Produced by Jean-Claude Dirckx and Sophie Hoppstädter - Hudba
Remember that you can slow down the video and pause it if you need more time. How many of these exercises did you get right on the first try? :)
omg...50%
i played back at 1.25x speed... 🤫
Your Videos have such high production value that they are a great time regardless of skill level
I spit Coca-cola out my nose when you imitated Ringo. Fantastic video and super helpful.
Dang, my favorite DEVO drum song too lol
I have been dying for tutorial like this. Having a background in music (particularly piano) I understand the theory pretty well, but the spotting the error exercises and becoming one either the sequencers really gave my a chance practice what my weaknesses. Particularly the idea of maintaining a sort of internal metronome that keeps the pulse flowing in your head , instead of just guessing. Tysm!
I got my first dedicated drum machine, so I’m def down for this being a series! This channel helped me decide on an RD-8, and taught me how to use the 303 sequencer!! Your content’s always killer
I’ve been playing guitar for 15 years but never touched Production with a ten foot pole for about 14 of them - it’s SUPER bewildering at times, but stuff like this helps break shit down in a simple way!!
That's so great to hear! Hey I started out with guitar too before I came to drum machines :)
We need this series more... please...
I'm really looking forward to it
one of my favorite ending sequence songs by you, good job!
Thank you! We also had a lot of fun making it :)
This was really fun! Would be very glad to clap along to another lesson in the future :)
And the fact of having partially built a (part of a) popular rhythm while doing so is a rewarding addition.
it always amazes me, your videos are incredible easy to understand and I have learned a lot from them. Hopefully you will upload more in this series, thank you so much for all videos
Fantastic stuff, please continue with this series if possible
Man I want MORE AND MORE. Let's work our way to making bosa nova beats, tangos, 5/4 beats that still make a booty wanna groove and the crazy polyrhythmic stuff. Let's do it!!!
Dang I'm glad I found this channel!
I was loving this
for the tutorial and then the twist blew my mind! ❤well done on another ace of a video. I’m looking forward to the next lesson! 😀
It's a great way to learn the basics and train your ear-eye coordination instead of the hand-eye coordination. Definitely looking forward to the next lessons.
I hope this will progress as a series. Chimp------->Apex(T)
I WANT MORE OF THIS!!!
Has anyone told you that your videos are very good? Because they are *very* good.
Thanks so much, Wes Jamderson
Yes. Please make more of these videos.
Give us more! This was fun.
Thank for taking the time to do this I am learning a lot.
Please more Videos like this one! 🙏🏻🙏🏻
You can slow/speed up CZcams with the wee arrows < and > which live above the comma, and full stop. (period.)
can do repeated presses for more >>>faster/slower
Like it :) Also liked the happy jam at the end :)
Devo! Epic!
This was fun, I really like the interactive exercises. Keep making these high quality videos
This was awesome!!
Love this concept! I think they are actually really useful!
Definitely more lessons. Love your content so much. Keep it coming.
This is awesome!!! As always!!! Love you guys!!!!❤
Great video, thank you!
Very fun, and interesting. Love it. Look forward to more.
Good stuff - more of this please!
That was fun. More please. Thanks.
this is so cool, please make more of these videos
This video is fantastic, thank you from the bottom of my heart!
nails on fleek with the background at the end!
really nice video to go along, simple at the beginning but i hope for more to come. especially with the great editing / effects / whatsoever of your videos!
So good and so useful! Please more of this!
This is really really useful and also very well made visually and conceptually.Well Done!
Would love more of these!
Love this, keep going!
great stuff, would love to see more!
Love your CZcams and elektronauts posts. Peace
Please make more of these! I will consume all of them
There is a really cool tool to learn more of this, it's called Building Blocks by Audiblegenius. It made a huge difference in how I approach writing music (not just drums).
This was wonderful, thank you. I also appreciate your gentle suggestion of the use of paper as an option. No need to go bananas and buy more gear. Just use whatever you already have. Listen and learn.
ty, i love your videos! *-*
Love your videos! My favorite are where you analyze drum patterns of songs. Kisses!
Super nice idea ! Love that video !! Congtatz
perfect video need more like it please thankyou
Awesome, yes more please 👍🏻
I was also wondering if, for aesthetic reasons, you had contemplated miming your (previously recorded by you) musical outro? Those cables can be so untidy.
Looove this!!!!
Very usefull, please keep going👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
...yes. I'll be needing more of these 😳
devo bigg mess beat rocks
love your vids
This is great, i would love to see more
Yesss need more like this. Im a noob with no rhythm but have a lot of a lot time and a drum machine.
love your videos
Love it!
WE ARE UP FOR IT
Great tutorial. Thank ❤
You rock!
I could do hours of these :)
will revisit
Awesome
Good Practice!
This is great and fun 😁
love these lessons. all my music has been stapled on to the same beat for years. no longer!
tá guay! me gustó bastante
Yes please.
In the past I used to transcribe drum patterns of dance music into a tracker for fun and to figure out how the music 'worked.' Would love to see some more challenging exercises in the future!
YES PLZ MOAR
this that good shit, keep it up!
thank you so much for doing this as i am shit and I hope you will get though to me in the end
Man, you are so cool.
That Ape vs Aphex line, lol. Here for the lessons, subscribed for the real talk.
Haha, amazing.
It's funny how as a drummer I could play it back in my head every time, but had to pause and count where they were to actually place them on a sequencer pattern.
Subscribed,very much enjoying your channel
Great video mate. I have an RD8 and love it. I actually just started learning real drums as a 40 year old so I now know what 1 e & a 2 is 😂. With my music I usually beat box my drums out on my phone then try to replicate the idea in my daw or rd8. I find it tricky when placing toms cause they can fall out of the 16 note sequence but still fun to do.
I'm impressed that you can do a passable Liverpool accent in what I'm pretty sure is your second language
Thanks! It's all from listening to the Beatles ;)
I knew back then with the first video that this captain is going to be something different 🙂
the cameo drums is best and hardiest to get on maschine yr the best
You legit got me with that like and subscribe and gg
This is what Im looking for, since I cannot make a drum beat
3:00 I think it was around this point I was thinking “Wait, hang on, how old should I be to watch this?”
Been excited to watch this since I got the notification earlier, and already cracking up at Ringo Starr 😂😂
OK, now I've finished it, I a) love it as usual, and b) definitely think more videos like this would be brilliant and massively useful. Keep up the great work Captain and The Intern 👍🏾👍🏾
i like it
Thsts useful
Thank you…
Captain: *beat plays*
Me: "GET FU--"
Captain: "Oops, that was one from the later exercises."
Damn I would have expected this to be so much easier...
Please add me to the long list of people who loved this and would like to see more of them!
Love it!!! unfortunately on the like and subscribe I could only push the like as I'm already an aficionado of the channel! ;)
Please do more!!
Also: is the "you-always-see-all" design of the polyend more helpful for learning/transcribing/writing the patterns? I have a TR-6S and am considering going full "one with the drum machine" by controlling the patterns with polyend and the sounds with a Vermona. Opinions about that? Am I missing some problems with that setup?
Thanks! The overview that a sequencer with a pad matrix (like the Play, Deluge or Hapax) gives you is definitely a big plus, you can immediately see the interactions between the instruments. But so will writing the patterns onto a piece of paper ;) For us it's simply the best way to show the viewers everything that's going on.
after watching this video and nailing all of the exercises, i realized i've been doing this naturally the whole time 😅
Hey CP, do you have any videos covering drum patterns (or 303 even) from 808 State songs?
Fell down that rabbit hole recently, and despite playing them on my phone/BT speaker at every spare moment, i can't immerse myself enough.
Not yet. But maybe in the very near future. Perhaps. Who knows ;)
I do enjoy bad gear and synthmania, but you are up there too or even higher.
So cool! How did you make those sheets? Did you print them ?
Thank you! Yes we layout them as PDFs and make them available to our Patrons :)
hey captain pikant! i was wondering what your opinoins were on using the rd-8 and rd-9 live? i've already got a tr-8s and i'm debating getting another tr-8s for dual-drum machine live use or buying both the behringer clones for the same price!
Tough choice. Both machines have good performance features, but ultimately I think the TR-8S will give you more flexibility while also taking up less space. If you're happy with the TR-8S sounds then I'd say stick with it :)
"16 steps are all you need". -- Church of the 909
Give thanks to the Sequencer, for it is good. Its sync signal endures forever.
Hey Captain Pikant, I have a Behringer RD-9 specific question. Just wondering if you know how to swing individual elements or if that is event possible? For example, if I wanted to swing the hi-hats only without swinging the rest of the kit?
P.s, love your work!
Thanks! Sadly swinging individual instruments is not possible on the RD-9 (just like on most other hardware sequencers actually).