Drums in Ableton! (The Easiest Tutorial For ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS)

Making drums for your first time in Ableton Live! This tutorial is for beginner music producers! I cover the programming drums in the drum rack and the different options you have. This would have probably saved me 2-3 months of trial and error when I started!! HAVE FUN
Key Commands mentioned in this video:
New MIDI Track = Cmd + Shift + T
Loop Selection = Cmd + L
New MIDI Region (Piano Roll) = Cmd + Shift + M
Moving Notes Quickly = Hold Option & Drag
Smaller Grid Lines = Cmd + 1
Wider Grid Lines = Cmd + 2
Duplicate = Cmd + D
Rename = Cmd + R
Undo = Cmd + Z
Select Multiple Things At Once = Click & Hold Shift
New Audio Track = Cmd + T
0:00 Ableton's Drums
0:33 Using Splice for drums
2:12 Ableton's "My Sh*t" Area
2:45 Using Reddit for drums
3:03 Start with music before drums!
4:04 Get on the grid to avoid problems!
4:22 METHOD 1: Adding a Drum Rack
5:15 Demo drum sounds with your music
5:39 Putting sounds on your Drum Rack
7:40 Velocity/Volume Settings
9:08 Creating your MIDI Region (Piano Roll)
10:35 Designing your beat!
11:34 Duplicating your drums
12:47 Adjusting your velocities
13:59 Layering
15:05 Adding FX to individual drum sounds
16:05 Saving your custom drum rack
16:53 METHOD 2: Making several drum racks
18:34 METHOD 3: No drum rack needed!
19:40 808 Preview...

[@rodneyalexander4006]

Bro you r hilarious
And you make learning Ableton fun for me thank you. Keep doing your thing.

[@Bashanvibe]

I’m finding so many AL gurus!!! The way you program midi drums made sense!!!

[@jonnythegenie]

yes!! I'm pumped this is making sense to you!!!

[@anoushkasahai5286]

THANK YOU for such clear basics! much needed

[@jonnythegenie]

you're so welcome Im happy it helped u!!

[@dolce5570]

I was looking exactly for that tutorial, really great explanation, thank you! :)

[@jonnythegenie]

That's amazing to hear thank you for telling me!!

[@BillPhillips2000]

Jonny, I've never seen this approach! I started watching this video about 22 minutes after you dropped it. I watched it 3 times to really wrap my mind around it. I'm going to be setting this all up in the next few days. This is so outstanding! You are DOING THIS!!!!! Very helpful! Thanks buddy!

[@jonnythegenie]

Bill that's awesome man I'm so pumped that this is helping--let me know if you have any questions on anything!!!

[@SandyStarSong]

Brilliant! As I'm new to Ableton, this helped a lot. Thank you 😊

[@jonnythegenie]

YAY that's amazing!!!!!

[@Kryptdegen]

we need an 808 glide/roll tutorial bro!

[@jonnythegenie]

I got you !! Keeping a list of what people want and gonna rattle some shit off next video!

[@ThatFoolJoe209]

With the drum rack it allows u to change the scale. If you pick a scale wouldn’t a lot do the drums be out of scale or key ?

[@jonnythegenie]

I don't worry too much about the scale or pitch of the drums. Unless a certain drum sound has a real "note" kind of vibe (like a snare that sounds like a sing-able note). If it does, I click on that particular drum sound inside my drum rack and go over to the right and move the "transpose" knob until it feels right. There's no set rules really for drum pitch, it's based on which note is your favorite and usually they honestly all work.

[@ReyohBeats]

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[@jonnythegenie]

HAHAHAHAHAHA

[@jamesr7022]

Promo>SM 🙂

[@jonnythegenie]

thank you for watching man!!!

[@Dave.Smokvine]

I HATE Abelton.

[@jonnythegenie]

hahaha bro im gonna make a video called How To Not Hate Ableton because of this comment hopefully it helps

[@Dave.Smokvine]

@@jonnythegenie I'd love if it would help.

[@AFRoSHEENT3ARCMICHAEL69]

I came from Logic Pro. Ableton has a powerful workflow for midi based music.

[@AFRoSHEENT3ARCMICHAEL69]

Coming from someone who also hated it also but it was because I didn't understand the DAWs and now that I do ableton is actually set up easier while Logic floods you with more settings options. Ableton piano roll is less buggy and automation is actually fun.

[@jonnythegenie]

the best!!!