16 Legendary Beats - A short history of the 808 🟥🟧🟨⬜ | Drum Patterns Explained

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The Roland TR-808 is the most famous and influential drum machine ever created. Today we're looking at its history - and we'll do so by showing you 16 of our favourite 808 patterns, spanning across four decades and beginning with its birth in 1980. We'll be using the OXI One as a sequencer so you can see all the different instruments and you can try the patterns on your drum machine or in your DAW.
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Featured drum patterns (transcriptions available on Patreon):
Yellow Magic Orchestra - 1000 Knives
Afrika Bambaataa & The Soulsonic Force - Planet Rock
Marvin Gaye - Sexual Healing
T La Rock & Jazzy Jay - It's Yours
Beastie Boys - Paul Revere
Skinny Puppy - Dig It
LL Cool J - Going Back to Cali
Whitney Houston - I Wanna Dance With Somebody
A Guy Called Gerald - Voodoo Ray
Aphex Twin - XTAL
Drexciya - Andreaen Sand Dunes
Missy Elliott - Lose Control / Cybotron - Clear
Daft Punk - Technologic
Kimbra - Cameo Lover
Childish Gambino - Sweatpants
M.I.A. - Borders
Gear used:
8raw8
OXI One
DJ TechTools Midi Fighter 3D
Arturia CMI V
Beatbunny Cabasa
Neural DSP Archetype Gojira
Arturia Keystep
Arturia MicroFreak
Arturia Pigments
Arturia OP-Xa V
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Image credits:
Bryan Pocius - Roland TR-808 from the Musical Instrument Museum, Phoenix, AZ
0:00 Introduction
0:56 Yellow Magic Orchestra - 1000 Knives
1:40 Afrika Bambaataa & The Soulsonic Force - Planet Rock
3:03 Marvin Gaye - Sexual Healing
4:54 T La Rock & Jazzy Jay - It's Yours
5:56 Beastie Boys - Paul Revere
6:41 Skinny Puppy - Dig It
7:51 LL Cool J - Going Back to Cali
9:02 Whitney Houston - I Wanna Dance With Somebody
9:53 A Guy Called Gerald - Voodoo Ray
10:43 Aphex Twin - XTAL
11:44 Drexciya - Andreaen Sand Dunes
12:35 Missy Elliott - Lose Control / Cybotron - Clear
13:29 Daft Punk - Technologic
14:20 Kimbra - Cameo Lover
15:11 Childish Gambino - Sweatpants
16:22 M.I.A. - Borders
17:14 End Jam
Produced by Jean-Claude Dirckx and Sophie Hoppstädter