Play With Your Rhythm: Drum Patterns
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 เม.ย. 2024
- A tour through some classic beats in a variety of genres, with visualizations. Transcriptions of the drum patterns discussed in this video, along with many others, can be found here: docs.google.com/spreadsheet/c...
The radial visualization scheme comes from Ethan's NYU masters thesis: www.ethanhein.com/wp/my-nyu-ma...
If you are new to programming drums, much hip hop style beats (also in this video) are played with a 16th shuffle. Don't expect your loops to be as groovy without being aware of it. A 16th shuffle means that every second 16th note is played a little bit "too late". In the grid he is showing that is every note with a "+". If you count the 16th notes in a 4/4 bar it is every 16th with an even number. Select all these notes in your DAW and drag them just a little bit to the right until the shuffle feels right.
thank you for this
My lord, thank you for you observation
The "+" indicates an eighth note
Actually it's a bit confusing because he's representing the patterns as 2 measures with 8th note denominations when it's really what you're saying with 1 measure with 16th note denominations
16th notes grouped in 3s
On 'The Levee break', the 'dissonant' kicks are 'delay returns', rather than actual kicks.
good to know thanks for sharing
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@@nanoloopbandit Gotta have it right hey. It sounds a bit technically over the top, but technically it's correct !! Poet time !
Exactly - spot on. No second kick beat, just a heavy delay effect. The famous "Headley Grange stairwell" effect (but actually a Binson echo)
I never knew that and i’ve sampled it many times, I can actually hear it on my iphone now that you’ve mentioned it lol
This is gold for a beginner drummer
seriously I wish I found this when I started
swing and slide are the most important for getting a good feel to a beat. Sometimes delaying the high hats by about 5-15 ms can make a big difference. Another trick is to just slide the kicks a bit early. When compared to a square beat where everything is exactly on time you will notice a nice difference.
even slide de snare it can give a good flavor
Slide anything !!! Quintolet life
yes, and changing the velocity on your hats
Delay works also great on hihats.
@@negushak the snare delay or early?
Here are the timestamps for the patterns :)
1:35 Four on the floor
3:06 Basic Rock
4:50 The Levee Break
5:48 Impeach the president
7:14 The Funky Drummer
9:13 Son Clave
10:46 Bossa Nova
12:11 Mardi Grass
Thanks
rewatched this after 2 years and it's still so inspiring, thanks!
really like the circular diagram. visualizing patterns in this way makes much more sense than the drum machine grid. would be interested in seeing patterns outside of 4/4 and attempting to find visual symmetry
Then Xenormorph is the leading keyword.
XLN Audio XO will give you that and much more ;)
It's more of a western thing to view music in a more linear fashion from my understanding. A lot of more rhythmic percussion based music particularly from South America & the Caribbean if i recall correct has the cycle-based way of viewing music as more common both in how it's often written/read and in just how they mentally visualise/think of/explain the music.
Also if anyone's interested in seeing any more examples of the circle based diagram way of learning drum rhythms, then the channel 'Drumset Fundamentals' is good for me with their series of drum grooves with just the drums paired with the diagram and a light that moves with the music across the circle so you know which part of the diagram is playing at which point. I'm not a drummer but as someone who programs drums usually in a DAW, it does give me a more intrinsic understanding of the rhythms and the constructions of rhythms like Four to the Floor, the Bossa Nova rhythm, Bo Diddley beat, etc.
I don't hate the circular visualization to just look at it, but playing music to it would be so much harder than linear tabs or sheet music. I rely on the height of an element so much for fast recognition and processing, while with the circle, my eyes zip back and forth and up and down in all the directions all the time. (I play drums)
I don't like the circular way of looking at it. As a musician, I see that as constrictive. It suggests that your music is locked into a repetitive loop. I try to avoid repetition in my music.
his explanation is excellent and I love the color pattern it helps me to understand the patterns better.
Thank you so much! I have struggled with drum programming in a big way. This spreadsheet is a Godsend!
Your videos are so well done. Thanks for the knowledge. As others have said, you make it what can be difficult to understand digestible. Thanks for the leap forward Ethan!
5 years later and this is still helping people including me, i could never get a bounce to my drums and this helped me alot thank you!😁✔
ITS HELPING ME TOO !!!
Just started watching this and a, typing while I watch. Thanks for doing this! This is by far the best tutorial I’ve found on drums EVER. I’ve done Udemy courses, Groove 3 and others, and while they all have some amazing stuff, you are the man when it comes to context and demos. I am enjoying all the background on each.
Super rare for someone to share this knowledge to this degree. Awesome!
For a decade now i really had no idea where to start with electronic music creation.. till l learned about drum machines. Patterns. Rhythm.
Thank you for this video for explaining the concepts behind these patterns. I especially love the circle to illustrate them. It reminds me of a color wheel
Love this video! Programmed all the beats. Fabulous. I love learning like this. Thank you Ethan!
As a musician who has never had a drum session longer than 10 minutes, this is going to be incredibly useful for my solo 'career'. Thank you so much for this. You deserve a Nobel prize, you saint.
Thank you very much for the actual patterns too. I had a lot of fun programming them into my drum machine and learnt a lot looking at the transcriptions.
It is a superb idea of presenting it in a circular form which made it so easy to understand. Hats of to you. And thanks for those spreadsheet. So much helpful in learning those patterns
This overview/lesson is pure gold!
Thank you. This has advanced my understanding of rhythm and percussion immensely!
Such an awesome vid. I'm picturing a museum of beats where you can walk into rooms and hear each beat with an explanation and story. Awesome job
lol that's a cool idea
This video is incredible. Amazing work, man. You’ve spread some real good in the world.
Excellent tutorial, nice and simple and clearly showing how beats work. Loved the circular notation too.
I never have seen rhythms expressed as a circle and it really helped!! Thanks
My son is learning to play drums. I play guitar. Thanks for making these videos. It's helping him understand the different drum patterns. He and I are both visual. These videos are great! Thank You
you've done an amazing job in explaining this subject, very professional.
I am interested in the subject because I would love to learn to program drumbeats better, but I’m halfway through the second example (“rock”) and it is breaking my brain how profoundly wrong these counts are. I appreciate the time that went into creating this video, but it goes against everything I have ever learned, felt, and known about playing, listening to, and counting music. The back beat ALWAYS falls on 2 and 4, never on 3 as this video claims. It’s foundational: 1 e & a TWO e & a 3 e & a FOUR e & a. Do other people count the back beat on 3? Is that a thing? Or is this finally exposing why some people can’t seem to ever learn to clap along to rock and soul and why so many programmed beats sound square?
Just ran into several of your videos. Awesome job on all. Learning like crazy from you. Thanks for sharing, much appreciated!
BOSSA NOVA IS AMAZING!!! It's an incredible leap from the symmetry of son clave to the 5 measured beats of bossa nova with that tiny alteration
It will take me a bit of study to 'see' the circular representation but I think it will be very useful to see how the pattern elements relate to each other. Thanks very much for this. A very clear communication of the idea with super examples. I subscribed.
Your video is super helpful! I've never seen the circular notation for music and it really helped me. Thank you 🙏🙏🙏
incredibly useful and informing, I was iffy about the circle diagram at first but I really like it actually. Thank you for the tutorial and spreadsheet!
Yes I love this thank you soo much for the knowledge and the free spreadsheet you guys are the best !
This is very well put together. Thank you for your work.
Printed out your spreadsheet and I am loving it, thanks for teaching me this.
Man, this is pure gold for me! Thanks so much!!🙏❤️👍
This was very informative and you presented the information in a very easy to understand way. Thank you!
Great video, love the constant trivial facts and diagrams to put things into a more digestible context👍
Thanks! I've been using your spreadsheet and reading your text book for a couple years. I don't know how I missed this series of videos.
Thank you for this. Very interesting. It's given me an ideas on how I might be able to move my own personal musical expression.
Your spreadsheet just saved me so much time! Thank you
Interesting to see these classic breaks visualized. However what makes 'levee breaks' and 'funky drummer' so compelling is the additional micro information (swing, timing and volume variations) that are not represented in the diagrams.
I should be sleeping now, but here I am, laying in bed, watching this and somehow getting a fresh view on rhythm and beat making. Super helpful! Thank you so very much!
Hi Ethan, (7 years on) great breakdown of these patterns. Thanks
Thanks for the spreadsheet, very much appreciated, great video!
Very helpful! I'm familiar with programming some of these beats, and this helped me get my head straight on some of my approaches. Also opened my mind to some other cool options when looking at your pattern graphics. Thanks for your efforts!
One important thing i wish he mentioned is that the the realization that a snare in the 3rd beat is what grounds the feel for all of those rythms and is what trully opens space for displacement in the kick, hats, claves and whatever else you may have.
the best rhythm lecture i've seen ever. thanks a lot.
Thank you for sharing this video and the spread I greatly appreciate it I also learned a lot cheers!!
This is a unique look at drums I been working on different types of patterns recently
Hes explained them so much better than any one else on youtube
Thanks for including the beat templates. Great stuff.
Genius Roundgram , thanks a lot for this great video.
Just got my first drum machine and this is just amazing!
This is awesome! Thank you for uploading
This video is very very useful for beginners in music production to understand rhythm and drum programming. Thank you for this 💝
Great video! Thanks for sharing the awesome spreadsheet!
Explained so well. Bravo. Thanks for the sheet too.
Wow! Just found this channel today July 2021, wow! Great analyses of all of these different patterns.
Fantastic, especially with the spreadsheet. Thanks!
Thank you for an excellent and useful presentation.
Awesome. Thanks so much for the presentation and all the notation!
Big big thanks for this drum's theory, it's definitly the kind of thing's that i've been looking for.
I also created circular rhythm pattern charts, for describing song forms and arragements, similar idea to these drum diagrams. I called mine 'form wheels' and used for compositional analysis. Published at a conference and everyone (non musicians) enjoyed it as a way of better understanding their favorite music. Academics scoffed at the diagrams saying they had no purpose, which figures (academics are soooo out of touch with reality). The diagrams are very helpful for visually presenting music in an immediately digestible way.
You’re a bloody genius mate! Great visualisation. If you were to put a rotating hand like on a clock/watch following the beat on this psychedelic pie chart you’d have it nailed 😎
I don't get it. Why is he a genius and what is the point of this video? He's just listing a few popular rhythms and putting them up as diagrams. I mean no disrespect, but what is the point?
“Psychedelic pie-chart!” That’s a good one.
It looks like he’s feeling the 8th notes as quarter notes. Kick drums generally land on 1 and 3, snare on 2 and 4.
Agreed
His graphs are in double time...notice it goes from 1-4 twice
At one point in the video he says these are 2 measures.
He explains in th-cam.com/video/kpSudIoepgY/w-d-xo.html
At 6 mins 50 secs and following
Why do you assume the numbers represent quarter notes or 8th notes or have anything to do with musical notation? They're just numbers representing parts of the rhythm. It seems pretty logical to me. What I don't understand is the point of the video.
love how this was done!!
Love your teaching style .. thank you so much for this
Amazing video, amazing tacher, thanks for the spreadsheet!
thank you very much for the video and for the spreadsheet.
Incredibly inspiring, I can see the patterns much better with a circular design
Simply brilliant for a non drummer. Clear and concise. Many thanks
Lovly this will definatly help alot in visualising my drums
This is great video. Thank you for sharing this knowledge.
Thanks so much! JUst what i was looking for and well explained!
This is exactly what I was looking for!
I have when the levee breaks drum pattern, I’m in love with how loud and clear the wav file is
Thank you so much for this video tutorial.I see the layout now of math and notes too music.
thank you for publishing this
I have a way better visual unsderstandung than hearing and this helps me soo much. thank you
Great tutorial, timeless!
Thank you! So clear and well explained.
So good! I find it interesting that Sinead O'Connor used Brown's Funky Drummer on her rendition of the traditional Irish tune "I am stretched on your grave", to great effect. She starts the singing a bit earlier than the first beat, landing "streched" and "grave" right on the strong beats.
This is a fantastic intro to basic beats.
Ty for this video! Jam packed and concise!
Great resource and interesting information. Thanks!
this has been a big help for me, thanks
You sir are the real MVP, this would have been great at the beginning of music journey but I guess things happen for a reason!
great presentation, really simple yet effective!
Tip top job! Thank you for the break downs.
This is awsome, thanks for the video and all the spread sheets!!
Thank you for posting this video, very informative.
This is such a great lesson, that has given me a shit ton of ideas. A huge thanks.
Wow, this is incredibly useful, THANK YOU SO MUCH!
This is really brilliant
Really well presented thank you. I really need to go back to basics and study.
really great resources, thank you so much!
Thank you for making this video, and providing the excel file, just what i was looking for :) ... have a nice day
Wow, that was really useful. Thank you!
This is gold !!! Thank you mate 🙏✌
This is a great reference for writing tracks.