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Percussion can really be anything. And being aware of that can really get the creative juices flowing.
Discover how percussion boosts creativity by using everyday sounds to craft unique loops and enhance your music production.
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Key Takeaways
- Percussion encourages using unconventional sound sources to spark creativity.
- You don't need advanced skills to create effective percussion loops.
- Layering and sound design can transform simple recordings into dynamic loops.
- Making loops regularly builds a library of inspiring sounds for future projects.
- Simple manipulations often yield more inspiration than complex plugins.
What the video covers
- Percussion is a versatile instrument group that can include any sound source, encouraging creativity.
- Creating percussion loops can be done without being a world-class percussionist.
- Using everyday objects like desks or glasses can inspire unique percussion sounds.
- Making percussion loops helps maintain creativity even when uninspired.
- Recording percussion over existing grooves or favorite tracks ensures musical context.
- Loops can have layers with different roles, such as a steady rhythm or dynamic accents.
- Simple sound design techniques like pitch shifting and applying grooves to field recordings enhance loops.
- Effects like out-of-sync delays and spring reverbs add depth and texture to percussion.
- The creator offers drum packs with percussion loops, one-shots, and textures to support the channel.
- Experimenting with percussion loops can lead to happy accidents and long-term creative tools.
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From picking sound sources [music] to playing, layering, and designing a loop, there's no instrument group quite like it.
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Both in terms of impacting the groove of a track and naturally inspiring yourself. So, today, let's look at how to create these loops without being a world-class percussionist.
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Let's get into it. Percussion is one of those instrument groups that allows you to just sort of use anything.
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You can bang on your desk or flick a glass of water and make something cool out of it.
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It also encourages you to seek out interesting percussion wherever you are. And the best thing about making percussion loops for the hell of it isn't that you have bespoke sounds from your own surroundings and life to pull into your [music] projects, believe it
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or not. It's that you can do it even when you're uninspired and don't feel like making music.
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So, that when you are inspired [music] down the line, you have old you to thank for such fun tools to play with.
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It can help to record percussion to a drum groove you've already laid down or to a track that you love.
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So, that you at least know it makes sense in a context that you like.
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[music] You might have a layer that acts as the beating heart of the loop, like this 16th note shaker, which you could layer with something else exactly like it.
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Or you might have a layer that accents certain notes, adding a dynamic to the loop.
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Picking the right notes to emphasize. Or maybe some parts have contrasting timbres [music], are slightly more rhythmically complex, or something purely textural.
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By the way, these percussion loops are from my drum packs. And my latest one, Like You or Not Drums Volume Two, is available in the link below.
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It's full of drum loops, one-shots, percussion loops, and textures. If you grab it, it's a huge support for the channel. And if you don't, you're supporting anyway by watching and commenting. How good is that? Anyway, let's move on to the sound design aspect
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of percussion loops. Rather than diving straight into crazy plugins, I tend to get more inspired by really simple manipulations. For instance, taking the groove of one element and applying it to other recordings by using the same MIDI or
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groove from this hi-hat and using it to chop up a field recording. [music] Playing with pitch is really fun, too.
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Especially when you use something like VariSpeed to stretch audio like you would on a tape machine.
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Or maybe you want to play with depth and use things like out-of-sync delays and spring reverbs to add to the groove itself.
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Putting your recordings in different environments like this, layering nice textures [music], staying open to happy accidents, it's all really inspiring.
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[music] And you could spend all day playing around. And I think that's the biggest benefit of making your own loops like this.
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Plus, you never know how it will enhance a drum groove you're [music] playing around with in the future.
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As mentioned, I have a lot of these percussion loops as well as drum loops [music] and other one-shots and textures in my drum packs.
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My latest one is in the link [music] below. Thank you for the support. And let me know what you think in the comments.
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