Music Technology
03. Adding Drums to our Music
In the third video, we will learn how to make our drums by using Patterns Beat Maker in SoundTrap.
Adding Drum`s
Firstly, what does the drum do in music and more importantly music technology?
The drum provides rhythm. It contains authenticity and brings feeling to the music!
A lot of music, rock and electronic has drum beat. However electronic music brings beat into their music.
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You must add a new track.
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Select the drum option.
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Once in the drums section of the site, select patterns. In patterns , you have many options to select different drum pattern sounds.
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You can select when each pattern is played. Press the + Add button and the down arrow to select which pattern you prefer.
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There are boxes in the patterns section. These boxes are divided into one eighth beats. 1/8. Select when you want the pattern to be played to make it sound good.
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Bring the blue line (image in the previous step!) to the beginning of the track.
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Press play. Remember the purple Save button often!
Created by: Behnam Faghih, Caoimhe Wright-Graydon