In this week’s Audio Premium content, Mike Elliott continues his series on creating excellent drum beats – this week he covers Jazz.
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Welcome to the fourth drum based tutorial in the series that will show you what the beats are and how to make them sound good. In this tutorial we are going to continue to cover one the hardest styles to sequence, Jazz.
Jazz or swing has groove all its own that no other style can lay claim to. Whether its fast big band or a slow club feel, the Jazz sound is unmistakable. What makes Jazz drums so hard to sequence? The problem is every sequencer is usually set to have four even subdivisions per beat (these are your 16th notes). Jazz however has a subdivision of three (triplets).
But fear not, we will approach this tutorial in the same fashion, just keep track of the concepts and the numbers and you will be good to go! The last time we talked we built beats from smaller elements that when summed together formed our bigger beats; this tutorial will do so as well. With that all in mind, get ready to swing!
Here’s the kind of music you’ll be able to create once you harness the knowledge inside:
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Table of Contents
- Setting Up
- Setting Up: What You Need
- Setting Up: What to Use
- Need to Swing: Jazz Drum Theory
- Start Walking
- Start Walking: Basic Jazz
- Start Walking: Snare and Kick
- Start Walking: Adding more Notes
- Start Walking: Wrap Up
- Swing It
- Swing It: Dynamic Contrast
- Swing It: Ride Variations
- Swing It: Waltz
- Swing It: Review
- Sound Color
- Sound Color: The Kick
- Sound Color: The Snare
- Sound Color: The Cymbals
- Sound Color: Toms
- Sound Color: Review
- Fills, Fills, Fills
- Fills, Fills, Fills: The Accent
- Fill Me In: And Lead Me In
- Fills, Fills, Fills: Patchwork
- Fills, Fills, Fills: Review
- Jazz in Review
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