A Must-Know Tips To Make Drum Beat Sounds Easily and Quickly

  It is being able to make drum beat sequences that show the feelings of the composer/artist that makes marvelous music. The tempo, sound and feeling of any piece of music is very often known by the sound of the drums. So how does a musician start to make drum beat sounds that lead to amazing music? Herein I have explained some hints and tips for anybody new to the field and even for more experienced drum beat maker.

The first thing you ought to do is to become accustomed with the set of drums. It is of less importance whether you have an actual live kit or using one of the well known computer based drum  beat maker programs, the fundamental knowledge of equipment is the same.

In this article, I will focus on the computer based software that is readily available and highly affordable. Even those who are rhythmically challenged can make drum beat sequences that sound really fantastically great with these PC based drum beat makers.

There are three major components to the drum kit: the bass drum, the snare and the hi-hat. It is essential to get to know these components and to know them really very well. By estimation, about ninety percent of the sounds you will make will emerge from these three components. Do play with them, experiment with them and try to know their sound and how they feel and form an underlay of a song.

The next part in the process is programming the basic drum loop into the program. Follow an instruction which is easy to understand for this. The beat on its own can come from different sources: downloads a library of samples already on the drum  beat maker or some live music that is available online.

For a newbie, I would suggest you use one of the samples already in the program. This is for beginners at least until you really know the program. Once you are comfortable and confident go ahead with your creativity and style. Soon after this, you will be able to make drum beat sequences that are original and from you. Having done this, you can now start to edit and change the timing, moving the wanted segments when and where you want them. It is always very good to have a two or three added screens on the monitor so as to play and edit as you go. With this, you are able to cut and paste beats into the main piece as needed.

Your first goal is to make drum beat loop that is 4 - 8 bars long. Once made, then take it and place on the 1st sample where you think its sound is the best. There you go! You have successfully made drum beat sounds that you can use to develop and create and more intricate sequences.Using a computer drum machine is a lot of fun and also easy and marvelous way to create and make drum beat sequences that are professional sounding and original.

Home Music Recording Is Essential And A Must Do For All Musicians

Home Music Recording is indispensable for every musician who wants to make improvement in his career as a musician. It must be added constantly as part of their daily practice schedule. Any music aspirant that is not doing so is failing to use one of the best instruments available for success in his career.

Having been a music fan for several decades, it has always amazed me to see various musicians playing with different standards among in comparison to their colleagues in the field. Why there is so much difference in the ability to play and why some musicians rarely make improvement notwithstanding that they practice a lot have been a baffle also to me.

As a person privileged to work with lots and lots of great musicians, with some of the best world’s music players as well, I have often shared my concerns with them. In this short piece I have summed up the answers I got coupled with some research I made on the topic at hand. Being able to get the best teacher you can comfortably afford, practicing in an effective manner and home music recording to experiment for yourself, your musical ability and your weaknesses is a must if one is really eager to make a progress with his career as a player. The points are explained below:

Getting the best teacher you can easily afford.

Being able to hire a very good teacher is truly applicable to almost every activity one can engage in but many people neglect it amazingly. It is really of optimum importance that one gets the basic playing fundamentals right from the beginning as it will be very hard to make corrections when one have already got accustomed and used bad music habits and poor techniques eventually.

Practicing always and not just practicing alone but with maximum efficiency.

The teacher’s great necessity comes in here when practicing for a music career. The teacher cannot impart on the student knowledge or technique he does not know. So your success will depend also on the quality of teacher you have. The techniques for a particular instrument you are playing should be learnt as you practice. You must not only concentrate on the fun, sweetness and enjoyment of just playing the instrument. For an example, If  you are playing brass instruments you suppose to include a warm-up, long notes ( to develop sound and tone), tonguing (to articulate),range, breath control, fingering, mixed intervals, sight reading and etc every  time you  learn, practice and also  as your performance pieces. It is only after this that you can now play for the fun it gives and the more you can play better the better fun you will have.

I can guarantee you that if you haven’t done home music recording for the 1^st time; you will be marveled at what you hear after when you play what you have recorded. You will hear parts of your playing that you hadn’t taken notice of because you were very busy paying attention on the music to, really listening with close attention as you plays. It may leave you stupefied at 1^st but it is a very good learning experience as you will discern your strength and weakness and when you hear it, it is just an added step towards improving yourself and making maximum success. When you are finished, compare your music recordings to those of professionals playing the same piece as yours. This is a very good way to make an improvement and as you record often you can also track your progress.

Thankfully, there are now plenty very high qualities, cheap portable digital audio recorders available .It is a result not difficult to record yourself and hear the simple and minute details of your playing. The recording quality supersedes CD quality and also it is easy to upload the files to a computer so as to edit it after. You can also readily produce CDs or e-mail mp3 files to your teacher and also friends. In conclusion, these are just some of the reasons why all musicians can benefit from home music recording. High quality portable digital audio recorders are easily available at affordable prices. So what are you waiting for, give a try, start recording your music now and see your quick improvement!!!