Ultimate Guide to Dope Boom Bap Drums (How to Swing, Bounce, Groove, etc) - Ableton Tutorial

This is the ultimate guide to making dope boom bap drums with swing and bounce. You will how you can instantly level up your drums. In this video I'm showing you how i make dope boom bap drums in Ableton Live 11. Learning how to make boom bap drums with the right sound and swing doesn't need to be a challenge. You just need to study the songs and beats that you admire and learn from the pros. I recorded this video to show you that it can actually be quite simple to create better boom bap drums for hip hop instrumental beats for rappers. This style hip hop production can be achieved if you follow my simple tutorial in Ableton Live 11.
In this tutorial I go over how you can successfully make great sounding boom bap hip hop drums for your beats that rappers will actually want to rap over. I also touch on reasons and ways to make your beats more interesting by showing you tips and tricks you can do with your drum programming techniques. Studying songs is a great way to achieve these original boom bap style drums in your beats similar to what classic rap artists would rap over.
Although this tutorial was created in Ableton Live 11 you can use the same methods and ideas in any DAW. Including Maschine, Akai MPC, Logic, Pro Tools, FL Studio and literally any other program you can think of. Hip Hop is Hip Hop no matter how it is created!
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Time Stamps:
00:00 Intro
00:30 Analyzing and studying drum breaks
01:12 Two key elements for realistic sounding drums
03:55 There's no shame in using drum breaks
04:30 Techniques to improve drums
05:30 Ableton groove pool
07:36 Extracting grooves from a drum break
08:35 Should you quantize your kick and snare
09:58 Trust your ears for swing judgement
10:30 Using high hat loops for swing
11:20 How to program drums by finger drumming
12:53 None of these tips will work without good sound selection
13:20 Outro

[@flunkedouttanasa9450]

Truth on using an existing drum break. I always feel like I need to program it all but I’m just not that good at it. Let the drummers do their thing!

[@jvsoundz7881]

I love how you went into great detail especially your analysis of the drum breaks!

[@logicjust9797]

The way you analyze drum breaks, best video ever man 🔥🔥

[@JPatzTV]

thanks mate!

[@bsang_beats]

Thanks for your tips my friend

[@SteezyHop]

Great video, I like that you mention keyboard shortcuts and more basic things like that along the way. Would love to see a video like this but for processing, eq’ing etc

[@JPatzTV]

preciate the feedback! i actually have a video on mixing beats already but maybe i can look back into it and update some things.

[@jaymac6831]

Dope bro...thanks for sharing.

[@ThugShells]

Thank you for the video! This is awesome.

[@JPatzTV]

no problem! ✌️

[@matthines6932]

awesome, this was great!

[@shysonofficial]

Great video man, you explain things well!

[@JPatzTV]

thank u!

[@massikrbeats9195]

Thought this was gonna be like the rest of those "boom bap" tutorials, really dope bro! Dope drums too, subbed! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@JPatzTV]

thanks mate!

[@mmaboxing5378]

Great video. Thanks.

[@colindrost4886]

All the information I needed thnx

[@JPatzTV]

salute

[@rawbiscuits101]

Great tutorial! Subbed!

[@JPatzTV]

ayee thank u!

[@PatrickObiang]

BRAVO!

[@JPatzTV]

✌️✌️✌️

[@joaquinrobles4053]

Thankyou very much sir

[@Pennygame]

wow thank you

[@JPatzTV]

🙏🙏

[@CAPTAINCRYBABY]

🐐🐐🐐🔥🔥🔥

[@JPatzTV]

thanks dawg!

[@RockWithAmanitaArmy]

YO! Great Video JPatz TV, but it would be nice if your mixed your voise over a bit higher in volume so it matches the sound of your music making u know?

[@JPatzTV]

sounds good! i will keep that in mind. thanks for the feeedback

[@hollownights6946]

💯👌🏾☝🏾

[@JPatzTV]

💪💪💪

[@iguaaana]

incredible video! thanks dudddd

[@JPatzTV]

no doubt! 🙏

[@rasmussgaard2596]

Great video! Which drum kit did you use? Thanks! :)

[@JPatzTV]

drums from a mini drum kit i released

[@rasmussgaard2596]

@@JPatzTV Can I get it somewhere?

[@JPatzTV]

@@rasmussgaard2596 yep it’s in one of these kits i believe the “1k subs kit”. i can check later today to confirm jpatz.com/sound-kits - i’m gonna be dropping my first official kit soon so stay tuned.

[@ohz1999-cwingcity]

非常好兄弟

[@justbible7309]

What was the second break from?

[@artkitectbeats1622]

A slowed down Synthetic Substitution by Melvin Bliss. One of the most used breaks in hiphop history.

[@darrengordon-hill]

Are you JPatz?

[@JPatzTV]

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