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7 Drum Secrets (Patreon)

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2025-02-08 15:56:13

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Our newest episode - hot from the oven onto your plate :) Everytime we discover a neat idea or an interesting trick while transcribing drum patterns, we throw it on our pile of notes. And for this video we decided to take a deep dive into our collection, presenting you with seven of our favourites, sourced from 20 different songs. We hope this gives you some ideas and motivation for your own beats and also some appreciation for the beats featured in the video.

Also: For the first time we are lifting the curtain on our highly technical forensic methods for comparing drum patterns. And we reveal our findings regarding the samples used in Orbital's "Halcyon + On + On" ;)

WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD

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Crafting Better Beats - 7 Techniques I discovered while transcribing Drum Patterns

► https://www.patreon.com/captainpikant Support us on Patreon and get access to lots of drum patterns, cheat sheets and more! Every once in a while we discover some great or unconventional tricks and techniques that we immediately mark down as "must try". In this episode we'll show you 7 of our absolute favourites - to use as inspiration for your own beats. If you plan to buy something from a big online retailer you can use an affiliate link to support us - at no additional cost for you, we just earn a small commission. ► Europe: https://www.thomann.de/intl/index.html?offid=1&affid=3690 ► US: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/Z6X00K Featured drum patterns (transcriptions available on Patreon): Adamski - Killer Afrika Bambaataa & The Soul Sonic Force - Planet Rock Alexander Robotnick - Problèmes D'Amour Björk - Hunter Captain Sky - Super Sporm (Break) Childish Gambino - Sweatpants Cliff Richard & The Shadows - Do You Wanna Dance (Intro) Four Tet - Love Cry Hardfloor - Acperience 1 Harold Faltermeyer - Axel F hubbabubbaklubb - Mopedbart John Tejada - Stabilizer Kraftwerk - Numbers Logic - Wake Up Marvin Gaye - Sexual Healing Orbital - Halcyon + On + On Peggy Gou - I Go Skinny Puppy - Dig It Timecop 1983 - On The Run Gear used: Squarp Hapax OXI One 8raw8 Roland TR-6S Seaboard RISE 2 provided by ROLI Arturia Keystep TC Electronic Magus Pro Thanks again to https://www.instagram.com/vintagemodernaudio/ for recording the Yamaha RX120 MIDI mapping for us so we could verify the percussion part for Adamski's "Killer" :) ► Instagram https://www.instagram.com/captainpikant #drummachine #drums #electronicmusic #beatmaker #beatmaking #electro #techno #house #housemusic #technomusic #synthesizer 0:00 Introduction Produced by Jean-Claude Dirckx and Sophie Hoppstädter