Electro Pop Drums: Super Neat Beat Cheat Sheet

[@seancharteris]

Ryan your videos are absolutely outstanding. Not only are they full of incredible content, but they have good clean humour, they are professional and they have been masterfully and meticulously composed and edited. I lament that I have only stumbled across these tutorials now. They are incredible. A sincere thank you!

[@illaghee1]

the guys on the props staff that actually produce and post produce all these vids also deserve some love boo xox

[@ReasonStudios]

Wow thanks, Sean. Better late than never to find them. :) I put a lot of work and care into each one, obviously. Making something complex feel very clear is quite a neat challenge and hopefully something I achieve more often than not. Thanks for watching. /ryan

[@l0gically]

Another great tutorial. I couldn't believe how much layering a second clap sample and shifting it forward a bit really made it pop.

[@untitleduntitled6033]

These Cheat Sheet tutorials are what made me upgrade my Reason 6.5 to Reason 8. Having barely understood how to connect all the tools in Reason before, I grew frustrated and didn't push further with creating music for fun. So I let my Reason copy sit dormant after it reached the upgrade wall. I've always known Reason is powerful, but I've never really known how to take full advantage of all the features and connect the tools with meaningful actions. These tutorials are truly insightful. I really appreciate whoever decided to start this segment. I actually feel like I can use Reason to a much greater effect than my previous ownership of the software. You got this customer to come back because of these tutorials. Keep them coming, pleeeease :)

[@benjaminaustnesnarum3900]

This is amazing. Propellerhead is second to none when it comes to ease of use, good tutorials, and fantastic content. Hands down!

[@markthomas7263]

I stumbled upon this goldmine of information. Ive been using Reason since its inception and never knew this. Now it's like I have a whole new software program. It's Xmas! Big thank you for this one.

[@tapetklister3142]

You guys at Propellerhead...give yourselves a big pay rise! These videos alone, not to mention your amazing software product, are simply great. You've helped me so much in my music making! Music has become a big part of my life again. Thank you.

[@roydhaston]

These are fantastic! You really can't get these out fast enough. Such great information for those of us that are seasoned producers in our own genre but are looking to add different elements to our production. Thank you!

[@renegaderedtv]

Can you do a tutorial on the whole song? lol it's amazing!

[@philkirkeiner]

What I love about these Beat Cheat Sheet videos is that you guys always bring up helpful tips that apply to ALL beats/arranging. Quality video, well done.

[@njous1990]

Wow that ending was really eye opening and inspiring, thank you Ryan!

[@stuartbudnik292]

now if ReGroove could apply swing to audio in the sequencer...that's what I wanna see most in Reason 9!

[@DynastyUK]

+Stuart Budnik YESH!!! But I'd much prefer an option to "Quantize to regroove! So u get a visual representation of what the Regroove is doing :)

[@RZ568]

This is cool, I've never thought of using the sequencer as a drum machine!

[@DavidRowyn]

One of the best tutorials I've seen in a long time. Keep it up!

[@gainesdominique]

I love Reason so much. I learn something new everyday.

[@yesitsvish]

one of the best micro tuts from props' i ever seen. now i'm motivated

[@1000sofusernames]

Been using Reason for a while but I've never even considered this! Awesome stuff. Can't wait for work to finish so I can give this a shot.

[@droma_music]

Thank you! You have helped me find a new love for Reason and i'm so happy to be back.

[@TenThumbsProductions]

Great video, great series. Thank you.

[@chrisboebel4777]

I love these videos because, as a beginner with Reason, I learn all sorts of ways to interact with the system.

[@monogramadikt5971]

would love to see more tutorials like this please ;)

[@xMrMarcus]

Awesome tutorial! Things like this that makes Reason so accessible! Portray more of what different kinds of sound this DAW can muster up, and convincingly (i.e. by comparison to other successful programs), and I know I'm happy at least! Perhaps some synthwork for different styles of music? This is a great series, and truly entertaining! Keep them coming!

[@Knoqx]

Wow! I love Reason. It is so easy to use. Im definitely feeling this approach to creating music. Im going to have to implement this in my work flow. Thanks

[@willsims2009]

Wow!! I'm going to try this! I am a smooth jazz artist, but plan to use these techniques

[@siryle]

Thanks Ryan, this series of tutorials are great and this one also highlights the usefulness of R8, time for me too upgrade.

[@joeyurban4325]

Dude, Ryan is so good at this shit.

[@patxmusiq]

Hi, I'm one of your new subscribers. It's been a while I feel like I've lost my inspiration and coming back to basics helps me a lot. Thank you for this good videos. Cheers,

[@williams.8460]

It's visually very clean, thank you for your work !

[@SpeoMusic]

really, really neat

[@westpacificbeatz2160]

man you guys" youtube tutorials make me stoked ive always been a prophead, so fucking awesome you always get me hyped to make tracks!!

[@Lamoni]

Easily the best Reason-related videos. Some of the stuff you do (like lowering the volume on every other bass drum hits) seems so common sense, yet so hidden. Really emphasizes how small stuff like that really adds and makes the song.

[@beehivenexus]

Ryan, only one question.. DID YOU CREATE REASON? You know so much! Thumbs up!

[@AntonidasEvilTwin]

Great Tut, I always use the sequenzer as Drum Machine :)

[@elowine]

Loving this series ! Well done

[@grahamburgess6719]

mind blowing stuff thanks guys

[@mikec2837]

holy crap. i don't even use reason and this was fantastic!

[@henryjones8287]

I really love these videos ... The content and presentation really are excellent. I have one question however; when you've arranged a track like this with audio clips in the sequencer, is there any way of adding groove later or do you have to manually rearrange all the audio clips?

[@asmithmusic]

these vids are awesome! When i'm Major on the music scene I will definitely continue to support this program and channel. #beatclub

[@Besselhackarn]

Wow, never tought of this! Thanks mate! :)

[@jasonmcculloch5781]

Great work. Keep it up guys.

[@a7xfan1244]

Love these videos! Keep them up!

[@geraldhillardii4560]

OUTSTANDING !!!

[@LaIctusInFame]

Never touched the sampler since 2 years. Its more usefull as WAV clips in the sequencer

[@mikenixmusic]

Good stuff as always

[@brendanriel888]

great tutorial

[@AshRavens]

wow man you got a sub just from this video alone, and to think that I have never even used Reason - I use Ableton! But the concepts you showed here and your delivery was so good that it deserves support!! Do you do any ableton stuff??

[@Slackboy72]

This guy is pretty good with these drums vids. Just wish they'd do some drum'n'bass.

[@FirstPersonn]

I WOULD LIKE TO WORK WITH THE GROOVE MIXER ON AUDIO

[@rendelchannel]

wow.. that was great.

[@sydneywalz959]

At 2:37 he should turn the Control Room Out Knob to lower the sound out not lower the mix. Of coarse you have to TAB it in the rack 1st to rewire it to it. no biggie just setting bad habits using the Master Fader to lower what your hearing is all . great tut.

[@ichhalt1535]

Awesome!

[@Oversat_]

Inspireing video thanks!

[@drummatronic]

Great! Thank You!

[@UweGranzowfilms]

great series!!

[@robertkarlsson571]

det här var riktigt jävla bra! gött! tack

[@LittleJack74]

Thanks Ryan for this great tutorial. Is there a way to download this track to get a more in-depth analyses of what you did?

[@enriquetorresaguilera5870]

Hi Ryan! Could you tell me which software did you use to create and edit these videos? Their quality is awesome!

[@regg216]

Sounds like "party in USA"

[@DynastyUK]

This is how I do it! :D YAY! Great video btw¬!

[@peakstate]

do these drum samples come with it free or do you have to pay seperate? wasnt super clear. Thanks

[@gnuwaves743]

I need that backing track! It sounds like 'style' by T swift (not a big fan of hers but the beat is sick). Is the file available anywhere?

[@Trustytrevor]

How are the drums you are dragging in at the start all the same colour?

[@nateums]

so once you made the 4-bar loop, does that become a "block"? can anyone direct me on how to get to the a loop i made on the sequencer into a block?

[@Knoqx]

Push B on your keyboard. That will allow you to switch back and forth from song mode to block mode. If you didn't start your work flow in block mode from the beginning then you need to copy your sequenced patterns and paste them into your blocks in block mode.

[@4werwar]

This is music doit your self werry good

[@carlostorres1171]

Sounds like Owl City covering Mariah Carey's "Fantasy". I can dig it.

[@josephmeacham2696]

On the melody, how did you get the pitch bend automation, and the MIDI notes to occupy the same not lane? Rather than the automation being a sub-lane?

[@RyanHarlin]

Hey Joseph... that probably happened automatically because I was using the pitch bend wheel simultaneously while recording that part into the sequencer - but in the piano roll (when you double click a clip) you can scroll down and find additional lanes of stuff you can edit like velocity, modulation, and pitch. If they're not all visible already there's some drop down menu (i'm not in front of Reason currently so I can't say exactly where) that will let you add these parameters into your clip's edit mode window. Thanks for watching!

[@theotherbart]

Hey Props, why don't you share the reason files you make in these tutorials with us ? (I like the background music a lot and would like the get that as wel ;-) ).

[@SooshiShef]

You guys should totally get Adam Young (Owl City) to do a guest shot at electro pop. I'm pretty sure he's a Reason user too.

[@Iamdanybazz]

this tutorials make me want to use reason as my main daw

[@jean-charlesnavet4641]

Great tutorial , that snap ?!!?!?

[@MrVisionDPB]

Still on Reason 4!

[@kevinsmusicroom1362]

could you do a video on how to create that guitar Loop?

[@beatstreatboy]

Can you do a video on melodies?

[@Dan2227]

Is this exclusive to Reason 8? I'm using Reason 7 and I can't seem to place the samples directly into the sequencer...

[@RyanHarlin]

+Dan2227 You could still do it in Reason 7 but the drag and drop functionality of Reason 8 makes it way more convenient. To do it in R7 you'd have to import audio files.

[@darkstatehk]

I've just upgraded from Reason v7 to v8 coz you'll get v9 for free when it's released in the coming month. I went from Cubase to Ableton and somehow I was drawn to come back to Reason recently and it feels great. The audio quality from Reason for me somehow sounds superior to other DAW's I've worked with.

[@fabsonics]

Confermo: 6 1 mito! I confirm: U R great!

[@j.tahtstrauts3049]

Did you use "drug" as the past tense of "to drag" to be hip? I mean, I hear kids do it all the time, but you gotta know...

[@blackbird3149]

drum n bass next please :)

[@MightyMightyRoebot]

Can you do a UK Garage tutorial?

[@JamieClark]

Reason was always the ONLY DAW that couldn't do this for a decade... Great main synth melody, though!

[@JamieClark]

+Tronam I meant drag & drop for audio files. Or samples. So this applies to samplers (NN, ReDrum, etc)

[@patrickstarshooter5221]

how can i get that melody sound?

[@ClearSummerSkies]

+patrick starshooter I want to know too! That synth sound is sweet!

[@TofuShopMusic]

it's shame that now samples are named diferently and are hard to find & follow the video

[@nemliveproductions]

IT is called, preshift claps.

[@vipinakon2355]

plz do a video on melodies

[@ReasonStudios]

+vipin saini I totally agree! I'm working on a concept. That's a hard thing to teach without getting lost down a rabbit hole of complicated music theory. But I have a few ideas that I've been kicking around recently and I'm going to do one on melodies in the not to distant future. /ryan

[@SooshiShef]

+Propellerhead Tbh I'm excited on this concept. I've been wanting to try some Owl City-esq electro pop but it's tough getting melodies sometimes. I'm used to chilled out songs that are repetitive for the sake being chill.

[@Ind3xs]

Whut!!! So Damn obvious....Rare eyeopener!! Thanks

[@ThePowerpoon]

5:07 is that a portal reference?

[@sideswipebl]

What's "option-dragging"? I'm not on Mac, by the way.

[@RyanHarlin]

+Confusing Cube Ah! Great question and sorry for the Mac-specific key command. Option dragging is the same as Alt-Dragging on Windows. It makes a duplicate copy of whatever you're dragging. You just select something, hold down alt, and drag it to the next bar or beat and the clip you have will say in place while a new one follows your mouse to the new location.

[@sideswipebl]

Oh, cool, okay. Thanks!

[@Fluteauxfromage]

oh my god dat dramatic look made me laugh so much ( is actually not laughing at all)

[@titovalasques]

You so edgy!!!!!!!!

[@Fluteauxfromage]

+titovalasques haha it actually really made me laugh at first

[@gonoszcerkof]

TBH, I'm more interested in the song playing from 0:26...

[@AlessandroArcidiaco]

it should be perfect with group/folder instead of having a lot of track in the sequencer...

[@klandestino22]

Bruh...

[@supes0059]

man i wish Eseentials had Kong smh

[@AngelValdovinos]

FL STUDIO DOES THAT BETTER

[@foljs5858]

+Angel Valdovinos GOOD FOR IT.