If you hate your hihats, watch this video
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 มิ.ย. 2024
- The hihat and high percussion in your music is the energy infrastructure of your track: it's super important to get right, but can't be too interesting or it will distract from the lead elements. How do we program good hihats? How do we make them sound alive?
This tutorial shows concepts that apply in all different DAWs as long as you have a sampler plugin. I'll be working in Ableton Live 11, myself.
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Contents:
0:00 Get your education pants on
0:57 The natural upbeat of music production
2:11 The four levels
2:57 Level one, the programming
4:23 Syncopation
6:53 A B A C
7:43 Level two, sound design
9:12 The three tools of hihat sound design
9:24 The ADSR
10:42 LFO - time
13:01 EQ
14:42 Transient designer
15:59 Level three, the group design
20:02 Level four, too much fun
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Oscar, sometime in the last few months your videos have just gone to another level. Super practical, inspiring, and just a lot of fun to watch.
I concur!!
Yes, so much value in these, thank you Oscar, amazing work!
johnny sinns really can do any job
"Name one genre that doesn't use high hats!"
"Baroque!"
"I know it, you can't!"
"Oh okay I can't!"
Hahahahaha i cant argue with that
I thought of gamelan music, but baroque fits too.
One technic I developed for myself is to have different hi-hat sounds on L/R or L/C/R. This make search space wider and finding groves more fun. Can’t wait for 12 update to get more playful with midi manipulation features.
Plus what you’ve listed, Oscar, in such a pristine presentation. Great delivery, enjoyed your skills on top of musical inspiration.
Must sound great on a mono club set up.😂🇬🇧😂😂
@@Endle185 One place my music will never play is in club LOL Best case scenario in ear buds and studio cans of few dedicated friends listeners …. one of them is … me 😂
@@Endle185this won’t necessarily mess up the mix on a mono sound system. It’s the phase of stereo effects you need to watch out. You can and should always check mix in mono as part of the mixing process
@@JamesMcMeekennot just phase effects. Also just simple loudness. When layering things that share frequencies, you’ll probably need to turn down the elements being layered more if you just used on of the elements alone
I hate to say it but hi hats are always an afterthought for me. Gonna change that now
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I really love how in all the arts the artists use words like "airy dustiness" to describe stuff, so cool.
Nice! Please do shakers and tambourines next. I struggle.
buy one get a mic, shake it, record it , put it in sampler. genius.
Aaaah....i think you mean the Shirley's and the Twirlies
Shaker- literally just use some white noise with hipass and shortish delay.
Tambourine- don’t know how to help you here, sorry ;-;
I took "name one genre of music that doesn't use hi-hats, you can't" as a challenge: various ambient styles don't often use hi-hats.
haha yeah i have several ambient tracks with no drums at all
Oh good, you sat down after the intro. That stance is a spine killer, maaaan.
Also, I don’t have a sampler, and refuse to take the time to learn a DAW. Happy to apply the ideas to other gear / software though!
Man your tutorials go above mere education, this is wisdom
Loving these videos so much. The emphasis at the end of every video on HAVING FUN is an all-too-needed reminder to our community. So important to love the process & stay inspired.
Also one of the main issue I see in tracks made with sample packs containing loops (of course used unedited): The loop(s) don't match in groove or even fight against each other. I see this a lot both in drums as well as any other elements. Your lesson was very valuable, I think. Great work.
This comes in the perfect time. Been searching for how to improve my hats for a while. Hope this thing is gonna help a bit
One of my favorite vids from this channel by far
Looking forward to watching this! Just what I needed.
I had to been my weakness for probably the past two years since I started trying to write this type of music. Thank you so much for showing how you create manually the swing-groove!
What a great tutorial. As someone who is lazy with drum programming, especially when it comes to hi-hat patterns, you’ve opened my eyes to what is possible. Thanks so much, I’ll be spending more time on my hi-hat patterns in future 😊
Brilliant opening description. Theory of hats! love it.
I live for that ending 😂 go off king 🔥
Fun and well put together!
Thank you so much for sharing all your knowledge! Extremely helpful
Hats off to you sir! :D
I see what you did there!
Ty Oscar. You put some groove on my hats and a smile in my face with the level four
Can you make a video diving deeper into the idea of a ‘global groove’ that you hit upon at 18:30? And Techiques to further accentuate the global groove of a track - like compression, etc.
Love you papppi always fun and engaging educative videos 😘😘
OSCAR, you are seriously one of the best dance music educators out there, thanks for another masterclass
Legend! Fantastic video
Great video as always!
Literally watching this on the bathroom... loving your videos btw such good work and of great value all the time
Amazing and helpful as always❤
Masterfully explained!!!! Very useful !
Very cool!!! When I started watching your lessons, I finally started to understand how it all works!
You are an amazing teacher!
This is really great, inspiring stuff. Though I have to say, the section on group design has a really strong "now draw the rest of the owl" vibe.
That was super helpful, loved it!
Hhahahah I LOVE the energy right from the start 😆
I can tell you had a lot of fun recording this video :) Great work!
Great video, thanks Oscar! I almost always lower quite enough the level of my hi-hats, so they can be heard less, but still be felt in the track.
Oh my god! It was such an awesome tutorial. Thanks man!
hahaha this is great. on point and fun. good to see ya happy bro! thanks for the vid x
More cowbell!
Excellent video, Oscar!! Thank you!!
I like to think that groove is the play between the hats and their troop of subplayers, in the 16ths and beyond.
I feel touched to get a like from the maestro!
thank you!! amazing video :)
Awesome lesson!
Got my education pants on! Great session. Definitely learning something good.
This is 100% an area I'm lacking. Thank you for sharing your knowledge!
Hell yea
Thanks so much, you are a great teacher! ❤
I did take notes.
Thanks bro ! Really inspiring
Dude I love the way you teach. It involves both the heart and the brain elements of music.
Great intro!! 💯 and overall content of course
I have replayed that "SCHLACK, SCHLACK" at 9:38 more often than I care to admit
Me too. Oscar, you should sample that!
super great tutorial
awesome video! keep up the good work!
Brotip for mixing:
Especially beginners are mixing their hihats way too loud. The reason is simple: you make a new hihat track in your DAW, and it starts at standard volume close to maximum, which is way too loud. So you turn it down - the problem is, perception is relative, your ears instantly got used to the too loud volume, so "a bit less" now sounds "right" to you - but it isn't, it's still too loud. Your ears and brain fooled you.
A simple way to fix that is turning the channel all the way down, then slowly up again until it sounds right. Effectively, you're turning your natural perception bias upside down.
Think you’ve outdone yourself with this one. Good stuff. Also the intro was so fun hahah
Sounds wicked!
this is a nice channel, professor. It's very nice to watch this for me. Affirmative to my pioneering and deepest top underground secret research lab work at the dawn of electro. So glad to see other researchers,scientists and professors came to the same results, solutions and paradigms.I Look forward to watching more and enrage in debates about new breakthrough solutions, ways, levels and future experiments.
This video was absolutely perfect. A niche topic, but so well described
Very informative video, thank you
Really good video, short but super informative, thanks so much underdog
dude, honestly, at second 48 I stopped the video right now and gave u a streight thumbs up :D these are the vibes man haha love your vibe! and now putting on my helmet to be prepaired for the gems u`ll throw at me in the video! ;)
Thx a lot, that was the video I really really needed. It helped me a lot !!
Brilliant as always - love your dancing 😅
Some of us old fogies program on hardware and I still find this info useful. Bravo
so simple but so deep, thx Oscar!
Grate stuff, devil sleepsin small bits.
Almost 25k people hate Hi Hats! Good video, was fun to watch.
That's funny lol
Thanks a lot Oscar !
one of the best hi hat tutorial i've seen now !
nice and funny , some of the steps were really nie to see and hear :)
Hats have always been an Achilles heel for me, where i have disregarded projects just cuz I couldn’t get the tops right. THANK YOU for this! Im certain I won’t be repeating past mistakes again and have fun experimenting with the most hypnotic part of a track 🤘🏽
Very good job ! Helpful for me.
High hats are as important as kick !
Heavy glitchmob style glitchhop doesn’t use them persay but uses glitchy sounds to fulfill their purpose
Amigo muchas gracias por tus consejos realmente son muy buenos y te cargan de energía, saludos desde México 🇲🇽
loved the intro!
Very good, thank you 🙏
thank you so much for this masterpiece brooooooooooo
Really like your style of explanation. That is all :)
Awesome video!
Thank you so much ☺️
Thanks for making this....One of my weaknesses in production I think...Could always use more Hi-hat tips.
This is good because there’s a tendency to program hats in predictable ways I find , and I want to find different/ more interesting approaches 👍👏
Great video!
Hey!
Amazing job as always ❤ But where was the best part, "Stay producing, be good to each other and take care" ?
Thank you!! Super timely. I was just struggling with mine a few hours ago 😢
You should check out Au5's FM technique for synthesizing cymbals. Noise based Hats don't always work and they can get a little dull if overused.
Yo I'm glad I discover this channel, keep up the good work !
By the way I'm from Belgium too :)
yeah i feel like that, love listening to crispy hi hats but i suck at making them
Amazing
Oh shit, I think I just pissed my education pants
20:20 best part! LOL!
I can think of a bunch of genres that don't use hats but we mek techno and we need hats so lets goooo
love the motivational intro haha
Hi hats convey the feeling of the bpm / speed of the track. A 160bpm track with consistent 16ths on the hihat can FEEL faster than a 180bpm track with only kicks on the 1/4 notes (and the occasional 1/8 accent kick)
Especially the reminder to keep it simple totally gets me. My HHs are mostly wayyyy to busy and over the top… 🤪🙌
The dance at the end bro 😂😂👏🏾👏🏾
Nice thanks 😊
“Charlies” I'm having that. I love The Charleston. And something I call “Charleston Techno”, too. Such swingers as; BLAM THE TARGET by Neil Landstrumm, Game Form by Joey Beltram and Cristian Vogel's Body Mapping. The whole album. GET YER SHUFFLE ON!
BRILLIANT 👍✌️
Another fantastic video, thanks Oscar! If anything would be good to elaborate a bit on where all the percussive elements sit programing and frequency wise..
Thanks Oscar 🔊Top man