Composing Prog Metal & Djent with Beat Scholar | Mike Malyan (Monuments)

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Intro - 00:00
Beat Scholar Set-Up - 02:29
Using an External Drum Sampler - 03:21
Routing your Tracks - 04:05
How Beat Scholar Works - 05:25
Long-Form Polymetric Example - 06:23
Setting up the Hands - 07:41
Setting up a Modular Kick Polymeter - 08:41
Showing Multiple Pattern Lengths - 10:08
Chaining Patterns Together - 10:51
Triggering Patterns with MIDI - 12:18
Recording Beat Scholars MIDI - 14:47
Showing Different Snare Placements with/without Ghost notes - 17:53
How Beat Scholar Remembers Polymetric Displacement - 19:40
Really Heavy Extreme Metal Modules with 32nd Notes - 21:49
Customising a Hand Pattern for Double-Half Time Crashes - 23:26
Using Compound Kick Patterns - 24:53
Using "No Snare" "Hands" with Kick+Snare "Feet" Patterns - 28:50
Creating Compound Polymetric Patterns - 30:15
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Hey Everybody,
We've been fortunate enough to work with some incredible musicians in our career, and Mike is definitely on that list! :)
Aside from being a prog-metal-fusion-djent(isNotAGenre) drumming legend, Mike is a super talented composer & educator.
In this video, Mike takes you through his methods for composing riffs and drum patterns while highlighting the advantages of using Beat Scholar to do so.
Aside from technicalities, Mike presents an in-depth view into the rhythmic inner workings of progressive genres and how he manages to play in some of the most interesting metal bands on the planet. (Monuments, Tesseract, Disperse, Periphery to name a few...)
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[@MalyanDrum]

Thanks so much Modalics for making such amazing software! I absolutely love Beat Scholar :D

[@altpath]

This is like a full master class, free. Incredible.

[@Modalics]

Happy to hear you like it! Mike is indeed a master, we have a couple more tutorials you might enjoy :) If you have any questions we're here.

[@TempleGuitars]

I want to hug Mike. He honestly has the best energy.

[@Modalics]

Agreed! :) Very hugable dude.

[@Patrick_theshuttercanvas]

Mike’s excitement about pretty much everything I’ve seen him be a part of is contagious. Thanks for walking us through the potential of this software. It’s officially on my list of need-to-get!

[@holydiver4728]

This is absolute golden ! 🎉Looking forward to updates.

[@spiralweaver7740]

Thanks for making such an awesome preset!

[@Kris_jellybeard]

Djeez Mike, thanks for this brief introduction in your thinking. I'm going to use this knowledge

[@erikhausler6858]

Dear Mike, thanks so much for sharing your method. Your enthusiasm carries one over the intricacies that you don't get during the first runthrough. Energizing. Saved! Take care

[@chrispysaid]

This is absolutely invaluable

[@oscarmauricioramirezhencke3547]

Very concepts in this video, gotta see it a couple of times to digest this compound measures

[@oscarmauricioramirezhencke3547]

This new drums sound great

[@Lordxfx]

Late to the party but Beat Scholar for life! Broke my insta-buy record in the proces too. 2 minutes after seeing the product, I had it on my system. Who needs a trial, when you suddenly understand the concept and realize that programming drums on a grid is kind of a silly thing to do. Thanks for this life changer. Now we NeuroF, Djent style!

[@Modalics]

That's awesome to hear! Hope you enjoy Beat Scholar and send us any music you make with it :D

[@MusicByNumbersUK]

Good stuff :) I can't wait for the update though when all of these different signatures can be used in one instance by choosing different divisions per lane. I'm waiting on the edge of my seat for that update guys! :)

[@Modalics]

Yes, that one is also in the works... :)

[@WhiteBoyFunk]

Always great to see such a good showcase, I can't for the life of me skip such an opportunity to complain about how consistently convoluted Cubase is... Simple vst instrument armed for recording doesn't record into the file, for whatever reason. This DAW gets my goat every single day.

[@markwflyge]

I love how we all speak the same language. When he started mouthing the kick pattern LMAO!

[@SquashedBugGames]

This is awesome and love it! I've been using beat scholar and Mindst drums. I've been trying to learn how to use the beat scholar plugin and not quite getting the timing right. I'm curious if these presets you're referencing is something we have access to (or should?).

[@The_PlagueDoctor]

I’m curious- I love the tool- super easy to understand, but I’m curious is it also possible for this to help you learn standard notation? Like if you’re feeling in for a band- should you already have standard notion under your belt before using something like this?

[@JB-ph8wo]

I’m beyond stoked to educate myself on this software and start creating. I have two issues with it so far. I have found zero instruction online or in the user manual on how to create a performance in Beat Scholar and then have Beat Scholar play the composition through another drum VSTin Logic Pro X. Also Beat Scholar won’t play any audio when I open it up in Logic Pro X. In Logic I select Software Instrument>Beat Scholar>Create>Open Beat Scholar>Hit play and it won’t play.

[@Modalics]

Hey! We just released an update to the Logic issue this morning, please grab it on our website. :) Regarding using it to control other plugins: You can load it as a MIDI FX if you checked it during the installation process (AU-MIDIFX) which you then load right before your other plugins in the chain. Feel free to come to our discord for more info!

[@chrispysaid]

Does anybody know how to route the separate hands/feet instances of Drum Scholar into a single drum instrument in Ableton? He does it in Cubase pretty easily, but all I can see for MIDI routing in Ableton is "MIDI From" selections, so I can only tell my drum instrument track to get MIDI from one instance of Beat Scholar at a time. Thoughts? Ideas?

[@Modalics]

So, in Ableton Live you'll need to open an extra MIDI track, that will take "MIDI From", say, the "Hands", and will "MIDI To" into the sampler channel. Then, the sampler channel can take "MIDI From" the 'Feet' channel, and it will mix both of them. Hope that helps!

[@sau1itud366]

I feel like you need to make a sample preset that uses your voice making djent noises.👍🏼😃

[@danslitadventure]

This is all very cool but I cannot seem to get Beat Scholar working with any external 3rd party drum kits in Studio One and there is quite a lack of info on the web to solve this problem. Not using Cubase.

[@Modalics]

Hey Dan! To route MIDI in S1, the process is quite similar: 1. Open another track for the target VST. 2. Pick Beat Scholar as the MIDI input. Notice that: 1. This would only work with VST3 (not AU). 2. You might need to stretch the size of the channel as the MIDI inputs aren't visible by default Feel free to join our Discord if you have further questions!

[@sau1itud366]

I’m have a similar issue in Studio One. I can route the midi to the drum sampler track, but I cannot route two midis tracks into the sampler track.

[@noyesyesno5345]

in reaper i can get midi to play through an external sampler, but can't get the notes to record on the fly like you, my only option is clicking and dragging midi from beat scholar as of now. and even that reapers giving me issues. any ideas?? pretty much struggling to translate routing drums in your daw vs mine

[@Modalics]

Hey! So you can set up the routing in a number of ways in Reaper so it will record. Here's a tutorial I've found: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aHy8nYp6d8tlgKc Feel free to stop by our Discord if you want to chat with us on your exact setup!

[@noyesyesno5345]

@@Modalics kenny gioia saves the day again lol thanks for pointing me in the right direction, exactly what i needed!!

[@angryktulhu]

I don’t understand, those 1-chill patterns etc, where did you take them from? Are they available out of the box in this plug-in?

[@Modalics]

Yup! Everything mike is showing here is included in Beat Scholar aside from the sounds as he's using Mixwave Gojira.

[@justinchristensen23]

I have beat scholar, but I was wondering how do you open up more than one instance on beat scholar?

[@Modalics]

You can just open multiple tracks in the DAW, each one with its own instance of Beat Scholar.

[@jonathanhilel5793]

I'm having some issues getting this set up to work on Pro Tools. Any idea on how to make this work ?

[@Modalics]

Email us at [e-mail] and explain your issues, we'll gladly help you out

[@danielortizdecaracas]

the input midi in scholar activate the countinuity fo the patterns?

[@Modalics]

Yes. This is shown in this video around 12:20

[@kahuna20001]

How about the ability to import already existing midi patterns so they can be seen visually and edited?

[@Modalics]

That is something that would be rather difficult to do, as random midi in the wild will probably need a quantizing mechanism of sorts in order to be visualized in the Beat Scholar UI. Having that said we are thinking about how to implement midi import in a way that would make sense, but ATM we're a bit far from being able to do that.

[@kahuna20001]

@@Modalics I was thinking it would need quantizing. As a model, Cakewalk does something similar when you transfer patterns from its sequencer to piano view. It just simply prompts you and allows you to pick the quantization value, which would suffice for my purposes. And note mapping wouldn't be a problem since you already allow editing that. Thanks for considering this.

[@mehraki]

Where can I get Mike's preset pack for this? 🤔

[@Modalics]

It's already included in Beat Scholar under our artists category. You'll find all the examples from this video there!

[@BrainDeadTX]

This looks like an amazing software! Don’t know how to use it like this in Reaper though , looks complicated ☹️

[@Modalics]

In Reaper you can set up MIDI input from one channel to an other using the "Routes" button. Feel free to come to our Discord if you need additional support. :)

[@BrainDeadTX]

@@Modalics I’ll give it a try, thank you so much!

[@TheGazharding]

Hey Guys. I managed to get this nearly working with reaper. Using 2 instances of BS on instrument channels. Routing the midi from both instances to another instrument channel with Ez drummer on it. My only problem is that when I ‘play’ BS with my midi keyboard to change the patterns it also sends the midi key note through BS in to EZ drummer. So when I play a note to play a pattern in BS it sends the midi through and plays a drum note in EZ drummer. Basically I just need to work out how to stop the note infomation from my keyboard at BS and just send the pattern output to EZ drummer. Any tips would be most welcome

[@Qyter]

what version of cubase is mike using?

[@Modalics]

Not sure, my guess would be 12 - Better to ask @MalyanDrum

[@markkilley2683]

Beat scholar app with GeoShred? Just a thought, can you use BS with non drum sounds? Might be another way to use BS. Or a completely different instrument.

[@Modalics]

You definitely can! either by importing samples to the drum pads or sending out midi and mapping the drum pads to notes. It's been done before :)

[@Shane-zo4mg]

should be able to drag and drop midi and have more than 4 channels for that price tag

[@Modalics]

It does have drag+drop midi, and it has up to 16 channels (you can add more with the "+" button. :) Why not try the (free) trial and see for yourself?

[@Modalics]

It is important to mention that in Beat Scholar while you can add up to 16 lanes if you want to - a single lane can include multiple drums in it, so you can choose how you want to organize your lanes in a way that's ergonomic to your workflow. For example: Snare+HH on a lane, all toms on a lane, etc. But of course one drum per lane in 16 lanes is also possible, and we have zooming options to make it easier to work in that mode too.

[@danielortizdecaracas]

scholar imports midifles?

[@Modalics]

It doesn't import MIDI files (but it does export them).

[@danielortizdecaracas]

scholar plays aleatory variations?

[@Modalics]

What does aleatory variations mean?

[@Thiskent]

1:58 right?!

[@harryolive1853]

Seems I must have learned already BS.. to follow what you like to submit us..

[@luca_bc]

Hi there! I have purchased Beat Scholar and I have just started using it. I have noticed that with Mike's presets it won't let me shift+drop in my DAW. To be specific, it works with the kick patters, where there is only the kick, but in all of the modules that have more that one swimming lane the shift+drop just does not work. Any quick fix? I am using Reaper by the way

[@Modalics]

Yes - this is annoying bug because some of his patterns have slashes ("/") in them. If you will rename them to not include the slash this will be fixed.

[@luca_bc]

@@Modalics worked like a charm! thank you :)