How to create DRUM beats in Reaper DAW 🎧

Beginner's Guide to Making Drum Beats in Reaper DAW [Drums Tutorial]
In this step-by-step Reaper tutorial for beginners, you'll learn how to create punchy and groovy drum beats from scratch using the powerful drum programming tools in the Reaper digital audio workstation (DAW). Whether you're a complete novice or have some experience with music production, this in-depth guide will walk you through the entire process of crafting drum patterns and rhythms in Reaper.
We'll cover essential topics like setting up your drum sequencer, programming MIDI drum patterns, using virtual instruments (VST) and much more. By the end of this drums tutorial, you'll have the skills to produce drum beats in Reaper DAW for any genre of music.
So grab your headphones, fire up Reaper, and let's make some beats!
00:00 Introduction
00:25 Creating Sections
00:56 1.Sequencer
01:41 Drum Pattern
02:09 Verse Riff
02:32 Make Guitar Sound Like a Bass
03:50 Record Mode: Overdub
04:00 Midi Keyboard
05:00 Pre Chorus Riff
05:26 VST
06:28 Choosing a Pattern
06:55 Editing The Pattern
07:45 Chorus Riff
08:08 Recording Guitar
08:55 How Do You Make Music?

[@obinnachigbo5998]

Honestly, great vid

[@divisionofthenorth1]

Thank you! 👍🏽

[@ShaneHall]

Cool tune, :) I use Reaper on Linux. It's not impossible, just difficult to find the plugins to do some of the stuff you make look so easy. There are wrappers / bridges to use some of the Windows/Mac VSTs, but it's an added layer of CPU stress that is more like a band-aid than anything. I don't know how many of us use Linux for our primary OS, but now with LV2 and CLIP plugins, it seems to be easier to make decent noise than "in the olden days." I'm very intrigued by your composition technique and am going to check that out right now. All the best! Almost 1000 subs! That's awesome buddy.

[@divisionofthenorth1]

Thank you for watching! Yeah almost at 1k lol We'll get there, no rush. Thank you for checking out my process. I have more videos coming based around making music with reaper, and other cool things I can find.

[@Curlyxtail]

For some reason I find the Reaper Ui very overwhelming, is there a way to have the midi keyboard constantly in front of you. Placed centre? Rather than opening like a window every time ?

[@divisionofthenorth1]

I felt like that also. I just took it one step at the time. At first all I wanted was to record guitar ideas, so I focused only on that. Then drum beats, arranging, customizing etc... You don't have to use everything reaper offers, I don't.
As far as the keyboard, there's a button on the top right where you can pin it. 📌 This will keep it on top of any other window you open. You can place it wherever you like.

[@Curlyxtail]

@@divisionofthenorth1 I've been slowly piecing the workflow together. I'll try to focus what I can do in the moment! Thank you for the advice!