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CONTENT OF THE VIDEO:
0:00 Intro
1:42 Let's get started!
3:41 First Pattern
7:04 Second Pattern
8:09 Third Pattern
8:50 Fourth Pattern
12:00 Hearing it in context
14:01 Final Track
16:28 Outro
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Ancient African Rhythms vs Analog Drum Machine | Drumbrute Impact!
This whole experience was very exciting to me, almost feeling like I was in three generations all at once. Exploring a book on ancient African drum rhythms applied to modern day drum set, and then reapplied once again to the future of music, in this case Arturia's Drumbrute Impact; my favourite analog drum machine.
This video dives into the Drumbrute Impact sequencer and breaks down complex rhythms in a digestible way. Did somebody say drum machine beats? I've got you fully covered with a thorough walkthrough. Arturia and I have been exchanging lots of love these past months and I couldn't be happier to be a part of the team :-) Thanks Arturia!!
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[@vprice509]

Almost 30 years ago I was the vocalist of a 5 piece rock band. Our drummer had been in school band as a percussionist for years and knew more music theory than the rest of us put together. One day he brought some African drums and assigned each of us a specific rhythm to play. That was, by far, the most fun I ever had playing with the band. And I still remember my rhythm to this day, because there were spoken sounds to describe it. It was for a medium-sized drum and the rhythm was, "GOON! goto-goto GOON! Pa-tah." GOON was like a kick, given in center of drum with the heel of the palm. The rest were four finger strikes at drum's edge.

[@LiamKillen]

Loving this man. Yeah these rhythms are contagiously fun. Thanks fir stopping by! 🙂

[@bassdivo]

It’s great to see someone digging into this stuff with modern production instruments. One of the things I love about your work is the marriage of contemporary sounds but with rhythm that is deep and feels really good. Keep up the great work!

[@LiamKillen]

cheers and thank u!

[@bassdivo]

It’s also makes it clear why the modern Afro pop is so cool, they’re blending this very old stuff with electronic instruments and minimalism.

[@LiamKillen]

It’s such a great combo. I love every part of it

[@kevinaaronson]

What an incredible video, truly unique and inspiring. I think it popped up for me because I recently bought a drumbrute but it is now one of my favorite all time vids. Thanks!!!!

[@LiamKillen]

Awesome! Glad it's helped and thanks for watching :-)

[@kathleencoveny3860]

Fantastic walk through on the drumbrute impact ... you make it so easy to process .. digest and assimilate .. thanks for your always thorough easy flow approach .... love the finished sound ...

[@LiamKillen]

Thanks for your engagement! 🙂

[@LittleMusicBoxes]

This is really cool Liam. These patterns on the brute sound amazing.

[@LiamKillen]

They fit so so well. Thanks!

[@jlmartin63]

👏👍 I did the same in the mid 80s with some books, my Atari ST and the earliest version of Cubase!

[@LiamKillen]

Oh that’s awesome!!

[@DigitalFactor]

Really nice work with the Drumbrute! I used it for my new production on KZbin and I like it...

[@happyjessus]

I know this is far from being one of your more popular videos but it is one of the most unique and inspiring videos I've found on the subject of drum machines on youtube. It's not about showcasing what you or the instrument can do as it is about trying to find a new musical ground for inspiration and inovation. I know that probably the result was not outstanding but of course it was the result of just two pages of a thick book.. there are endless possibilities there!

[@LiamKillen]

I appreciate that very much! Thanks so much for reaching out and communicating this!

[@christopher_ecclestone]

I've watched a lot of Drumbrute/drum machine videos over the last few days trying to decide whether to buy one. This is by far the most interesting one I've found. It's really inspiring, and you've sold me on the drumbrute as well. Great work fella 👍

[@nickarmijo1455]

Nice! In my free time I like finding different rhythms from different genres and attempting to recreate them on my music gear. This is right up my alley!

[@LiamKillen]

Glad you're into it! Grab those loops :-)

[@4m4z1n-grace8]

Really appreciated how you acknowledged the history and influence. I just found your channel and your content is awesome, too. Subbed. 😄

[@LiamKillen]

Yeah it’s important IMO! Thank you, I appreciate that

[@CanBabaluma]

Nice video, I’ve been looking for this kinda thing for a while.

[@LiamKillen]

Glad that it helps! I’ve got a few other drumbrute ones too 🙂

[@MRGO0OSE]

This is awesome, I really like learning how to integrate different musical cultures/rhythms.

[@LiamKillen]

Glad you’re into it! African rhythms are underrated IMO

[@darodardar]

Awesome video, very interesting! Going to have to incorporate some of those ideas in my next jams 🎸

[@LiamKillen]

They’re so fun!

[@braianceballos359]

awesome video! this is fire!

[@LiamKillen]

My guy

[@cloudofthought]

Wow, that's pretty close to the drums in Nine Inch Nails' "Sanctified."

[@LiamKillen]

Oh really! Interesting

[@JamesVytas]

Loved the end result.

[@LiamKillen]

Thank you!

[@indigosnow_]

this video got me to buy the impact. so dope. awesome job yo

[@LiamKillen]

Oh awesome!!

[@Pixelona]

You’re beautiful Liam🖤💫 Thanks for the inspiration ✊🏽

[@LiamKillen]

Thanks so much! And my pleasure :-)

[@TheMatdmat]

Very nice, I tried to do similar transpositions from Western african patterns to drum machines sounds in my DAW but always struggled regarding what “modern” instrument to use for each traditional drum. I’ll look for that book as it seems super useful !

[@LiamKillen]

It’s really really solid! 🙂

[@Chasing_Thoughts]

Just found your channel and subscribed. Great content

[@LiamKillen]

Thank you! 🙂

[@philphilphil]

You’re a stud. Will experiment on my OP-1 🙌🏻

[@LiamKillen]

Haha thanks! Yeah these rhythms can be applied anywhere!

[@phuturemusic]

Great idea!

[@LiamKillen]

Cheers!

[@adamapple4352]

The lighting in this video looks so cool

[@LiamKillen]

Hey thanks man! I updated my cam

[@lecollimateur3736]

super!! merci beaucoup !!

[@LiamKillen]

🙂🙂🙂

[@JH-lo9ut]

Hey, you can program the basic beat as a 1 bar pattern, and then hit shift+arrow it will extend and copy everything onto the second bar. Obviously, you can program whatever variations you want after that. Repeat the command and it will extend the pattern to four bars. Press both arrow keys and the sequencer will page through the bars as it plays. This function is toggled off by pressing both arrows again.

[@LiamKillen]

Huge help- thanks!

[@kwaz1muzik]

I have that book as well as the hand drum version.

[@LiamKillen]

ou interesting!

[@jezwinski]

Feeling this

[@LiamKillen]

Me too! 🙂

[@lenaandthelambcampingadven3422]

Good job

[@LiamKillen]

cheers

[@macrowben]

Pretty sure there's a global BPM shift function. Really interesting ideas in this video. Might have to track down that book.

[@LiamKillen]

Yeah I gotta do some more research on that. LOVING the Drumbrute Impact these days. Also I highly recommend the book! So many cool rhythms in there.

[@kwaz1muzik]

Good looking out on the African influence in music AND the "Action" type beat at the end lol

[@LiamKillen]

It all blends together haha

[@symbiat0]

That book is still available on Amazon 😏

[@LiamKillen]

Oh really! Haha.

[@NeBuLiSt]

Hold 'Shift' and push 'Global BPM' to set a universal tempo throughout all saved patterns!!!! Groovy beats BTW!!!

[@LiamKillen]

Thank you for this! :-)

[@hughchapman5319]

Love this vid. Interesting tune at the end but gotta say for me that beat works better at 119bpm!

[@LiamKillen]

I appreciate you watching!

[@saardean4481]

Hey Liam. This is a very useful and much enjoyed video. Do you by any chance know of any book that explains or simply has polyrhythms from a „drummachine programing“ perspective-point of view BUT before you say „isn`t this what i am doing here? I will say,,, from the perspective of someone who 1) is not a drummer 2) can`t read notes like you do in this video. More like (example in a 16 step sequence) „Instrument A on 1 4 and 7 , Instrument B on 2+5 but only 7 steps long pattern „ etc etc , don`t know if what i am trying to say come through but i hope you get me ?

[@p1u984]

/Can you import any sound you want into the Arturia Drumbrute Impact?

[@LiamKillen]

Unfortunately no

[@NasnuvenPaulo]

Veeeeeery nyce vydeo!!

[@LiamKillen]

Hey very much appreciated! Cheers

[@Johnnyhaag79]

is that the new arturia 37 in the backround?!?!?!

[@LiamKillen]

yyyyyyup! Still gotta learn how to use it before reading content with it though haha

[@MrPisster]

doesn't the impact let you do unquantized or minimally quantized?

[@LiamKillen]

It certainly does

[@hughchapman5319]

I think there is a way to set global tempo on the DB & DBI. Might be something you have to change w the midi centre

[@LiamKillen]

I’m not sure what u mean by global tempo

[@hughchapman5319]

@@LiamKillen global tempo as in holding the same BPM across all patterns, i.e. not allowing different patterns to have different tempos. Something you asked about in this vid ☝️

[@LiamKillen]

Oh yeah! There’s probably a way but i’ve just been switching al tempos manually up till now

[@rallro684]

Shift and global bpm

[@LiamKillen]

Thank you!! 🙂

[@jammingpositivevibration]

More african / ethnic tutorials please 🙏

[@LiamKillen]

Noted!

[@feclayton8284]

Like it

[@LiamKillen]

❤️❤️❤️

[@peteis2cool4u]

Great video, but just a quick note while this is "traditional" music none of it is actually "ancient" much if not all of it is contemporary, performance practice and modifications happen constantly in west african drumming. Western scholars like to codify things into "this is how it is and always will be" but its not really true. Gahu which I think is in that book is a pretty modern rhythm/style I think 1950s or 1960s, its name literally means Airplane and the dance usually mocks Europeans. Most of the Ghanaian stuff that has 3-2 clave or rhumba clave are rhythms composed after latin music hit Africa.

[@LiamKillen]

I hath been schooled. Thanks for your input!

[@pongtrometer]

Is that drum machine capable of polyrhythmic programming ?

[@LiamKillen]

Yes! You can change the length of each pattern.

[@antoniomachadosilva1261]

I don't know if the impact can do unquantized recording like the drumbrute but honestly, screw the swing! record it yourself :)

[@LiamKillen]

I like dat swing! Day swag!!

[@krturner68]

I love the afrobeat sound.

[@LiamKillen]

Thanks for listening! I find it fits so well with house music

[@braien25980]

DrumLifeMatters

[@LiamKillen]

Amen

[@Decoy303]

What a d a w are you using

[@LiamKillen]

Logic pro X

[@entrarrapido524]

Traducciones al español

[@glueball9511]

"the impact that black culture has had on america" LOLLLL virtually everything that america has had to offer for the past 70 years has been rooted in african-american artistic innovation or appropriation of african music (big idea in the 80s, talking heads and paul simon big examples). blues, rocknroll, jazz, soul, rnb, house, techno etc etc. America's identity has been culled from the fruits of blackness. kids who have grown up in the internet age do not even realize 'internet speak' is often times literally just normalized AAVE. you have a generation of kids mimicking black culture without having any sense of their being a direct source other than the internet. HISTORY REPEATS over and over, coolness gets packaged, standardized and commodified

[@LiamKillen]

Truth!

[@EARART]

Debatable

[@LiamKillen]

Oh it’s all debatable

[@habitat2990]

I thought I heard a Black Lives Matter virtue signal? Hmmm so If all these beats supposedly were to riveted from African culture brought here by Black people does that mean that you and the rest of us are culturally appropriating music? Just asking since the comment seemed want to make all this …drums music rhythm as well as drum machines, now political?

[@LiamKillen]

It’s clear that you’re the one trying to make this political and I ain’t bitin’ !

[@habitat2990]

@@LiamKillen Fair enough …. No disrespect. Agree …None of this should be made political Unfortunately there are those that try to make music, fashion, history hairstyles etc [political]. I’ve come to see political correctness as a divisive and destructive mind virus