How to Layer Drums: 4 Techniques for Professional Sounding Drums

Ever felt like your drums were lacking? Layering is a simple and fun way to achieve everything you want out of your drums. We dive into how you can use it to glue your drums together and more...
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0:00 Intro
0:23 Technique 1 - Complementing Tones
1:54 Snare Layering
4:17 Hihat Layering
6:59 Technique 2 - Organics & Texture
8:30 Technique 3 - Lonely Drums
11:35 Technique 4 - Layering for Arrangement
13:11 Outtro
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[@jgbrentin]

Fantastic ideas here! Relatively quick and organized way to blend drums together

[@KL-sv7nj]

v useful thx. can you do a video on drum processing??

[@EDMProd]

Good idea, will definitely keep this in mind for future videos!

[@C4millee99]

Thanks a bunch. Gonna use this for hip hop drums

[@lamborghinimiura7625]

This was helpful. Thanks for the good videos.

[@justletmesigninokthx]

I could never do layering. This makes it clear how to do it ! thanks !!!!

[@HostilePro]

First and foremost, guys your tutorials are incredible. They're so much better than 95% of the tutorials out there, easy to understand and not over-complicated or rushed. When layering kicks for example, is it essential for the samples you use to be in Key before attempting to layer them? I'm going to sign up for one of your courses soon, money well spent in my opinion 🤟

[@DavidAsh42]

This helps a lot. I feel like I have a new awareness of how to glue stuff together, in a way which I'm sure can be applied in many areas. Thank you!

[@EDMProd]

Really glad to hear it's all coming together! :)

[@jayesuu5081]

Good tutorial! I'll make sure to use some of these techniques in my own music.

[@EDMProd]

Very glad that it helped you :)

[@leonidasmisitzis6904]

he is the man

[@jamalyannicguzmansierra7996]

I also play with the decay time of the individual hats when i'm layering these... This gives a nice movement between the hats and feels more organic in my opinion.. In the context of the groove it sounds less static.. What do you think of this method? I also would like if you can make more videos about minimal house. I like your style BADEO. A track from scratch would be the absolutley killer! Keep goin on man! Greez from switzerland!

[@odlevalofficial4832]

nice tutorial bro

[@EDMProd]

Thanks!

[@LuisTorres-qz5kr]

Great job on the videos and knowledge sharing! Thanks! How do you actually come up with the various MIDI patterns of the drums/kick/bass/snare/hi-hats, etc...?

[@EDMProd]

Hey Luis, if you want to learn about why the MIDI is where it is, as for the Drums, I suggest you check out my How to make house drums video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rJyxqXqKn7CGipI As for the bassline, I have a video on how I made that one too! kzbin.info/www/bejne/r5PLmIZ_l79pbas Hope these resources help!

[@LuisTorres-qz5kr]

@@EDMProd Thanks, much appreciated! Will check these out.

[@Anand4mine]

Interesting, a tutorial on how to create this layered bass would be nice...

[@EDMProd]

Already done! Check it out kzbin.info/www/bejne/r5PLmIZ_l79pbas

[@Anand4mine]

@@EDMProd Cool. Thx a lot.