What Kind of Idiot Doesn’t Care About the Drums in Electronic Music?
So I’m doing my drum rack for my live set from the ground up. I found a 64 pad dub kit that I’m using this weekend, should be fine, but I want a real short snappy club kick and I’m starting from the very bottom.
I think what I’m doing is great, works probably 92%, but maybe 80% if you want to use whatever that law is called where the last 20% matters. I can’t remember the name, but it’s about getting this stuff perfect to where you have the confidence to go forth and kick ass, and if you’re doing dance music, even if it’s chill, you’ve gotta have your kick right.
I did a whole record, the Memo City M! record, with like 5 drums in a drum kit, they were 707 samples that had like 80s reverb on it, and I had snare, hat, maybe another cymbal that I never used, definitely like an 808 rim maybe, and then like a Prince-ified rim as well, and that was it. I didn’t use those rim shots much cause I just kind of did that very typical kick snare hat pattern.
For better or worse, drums are kind of a bit of an afterthought. Pretty good at programming them, I just never really sit down and concentrate on it.
So I’m doing that now.
Need a few rolls, so I’ll figure out a fill with just like a very basic beat repeat fill and keep that part simple. At some point I’d love to have the djembe percussion, but that’s kind of one too many tracks.
But maybe when I get to these situations where I really love the mood reel tree tones, but it doesn’t work on the Push 3 standalone, and I think really the rule for me is it’s gotta work on both, either or.
Like this weekend I’m doing a DJ set, but I also threw the Push 3 in the car with the latest and greatest just because it’s easy to transfer.
So I’ve got a huge drum set to work with, and now that I’ve said this shit, I don’t know, maybe this set will be all about the drums.