Producing Drum Beats: Writing and Mixing Killer Drum Grooves (Productions: Beats)
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.89 (668 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 087639103X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 96 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-12-27 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"very disappointing" according to Dokrok5150. I purchased this book hoping it would help me create better drumbeats for my music. After all, the subtitle of this book is "writing & mixing killer drum grooves". Are you kidding me? 77 pages primarily filled with revelations like "this is a bass drum - it's made of wood" "this is a snare drum - it has metal chains stretched across the bottom called snares"???? What? Is this written for 2nd graders? The author goes on "this is a sequencer - this is a tamborine - this is a keyboard controller" OhmyGawd The CD included contains (get . Please add DVD with Video Tutorials! Amazon Customer How can you learn to create Drum Beats with a book? I'm pretty new to producing electronic music and this book really helped me to get an idea about the different drum elements and the way they are used in an electronic music production. It is a rather thin book, but for me as a beginner this is an advantage. I have other, more academic books on this subject, but those books are just too complicated for me, and some of them are specific to one music genre only. I like the CD extra in this book here, there are some nice beat samples . Very good starting point I purchased this book as a requirement for a course on programming and producing drum beat I took at Berklee Music school with the Author of the book. The book covers all the fundamentals of drum beat producing and programming with very useful excercises at the end of each chapter.One must realize though, this book or any book for that matter is not going to make you an expert on the subject, but will merely scratch the surface. How far you wanna take the lessons learnt in the book by experimenting and practicing, is totally up to y
This book will help to explain everything you'll need to know to produce your own killer beats, from describing individual drums and how they are most commonly played, to MIDI drum sequencing tricks used by the pros, and the proper use of compression, EQ, and group effects when mixing drums. Over time and with steady practice, you'll be able to make these drum production techniques your own, taking your song production skills to the next level while at the same time becoming a master beat-maker..