How to Make Epic Beats with Crash Landing (Drum Kit) WAV

In addition to the dry one hits, we ran the Synare through its best friend, an original Re-201 Space Echo, into an Eventide H3000, jamming, twisting and turning, achieving insanely psychedelic (and long) drones, Pitch shifted melodies, Industrial bells, screaming whistles, rabbit holes, UFOs (landing and taking off), effected toms, bit crushed percussion, space lasers, and UFOs. Recording the results to tape.

Crash Landing (Drum Kit) WAV

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Once you have the MIDI track loaded, you can write in notes directly into the piano roll, or play a bass line using a MIDI keyboard. I decided to test out a couple of bass lines before landing on the one I liked the most and recording it into Ableton Live. I added a little sidechain compression to help the bass line groove a bit more with the drums, but this is just personal preference:

Now, I may not have the exact sample used for this effect, but it sounds pretty similar so we will use it for this tutorial. The crash used in "Crank That" is probably "RD_Crash." Browse to it by selecting "Packs > Real Drum Kits"

Then there was Dilla's approach to crafting the rhythms of those drumbeats. Many beatmakers use a method known as quantizing, which lets you perfectly subdivide electric drum-machine sounds into positions within a measure. From there, the pattern can repeat indefinitely as a loop. Dilla preferred to play beats on a drum machine by hand in real time. That allowed him to color his creations with a signature rhythmic sway: languorous, leaned back, landing just behind the beat. In some ways, it was a new paradigm for the swing rhythm that had been born in West Africa and grew up with jazz.

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