#FL STUDIO HIP HOP DRUM PATTERNS HOW TO#

To help support our original content, please consider whitelisting Attack in your ad blocker software. Attack Magazine is funded by advertising revenue. You could try other sounds here: from down-pitched windchimes to street noise or other field-sourced recordings. The loop is completed with a heavily reverbed bass hit that adds accent and low end to the first beat of each bar and glues everything together, filling out further space between the samples. The hat on the straight 8ths can be mixed fairly low. Choice of sounds here is key: choose complementary sounds including open and closed hats from the same drum kit if possible. Open hats are positioned to play against the kick. The second takes a busier lead on sporadic 16ths with velocity changes on almost every hit to reinforce the groove. Two closed hat samples are used, one on the straight 8ths to reinforce the kicks and snares, adding definition to both. The snare line is as simple as it comes: a hit on the 2nd and 4th beat, plus a gentle ghost in the penultimate measure. You can click the image for a larger version.

The kick drum is made up of several samples layered up, one for the boom and low end, one for the punch, and one that adds the vinyl-like crunch. Just copy the grids in your own software to recreate the loop.

#FL STUDIO HIP HOP DRUM PATTERNS HOW TO#

Beat Dissected is a regular series that deconstructs drum patterns, showing you how to recreate them in any DAW. The first is a raw, live workout, loosely influenced by old-school hip-hop.

Fl studio hip hop drum patterns