Brian’s Bedroom

This post explains how to make realistic sounding drum rolls with a drum machine. In order to sound like a drummer, you need to think like one. Firstly, I need to define, for those non-drummers, that there are two main types of rolls: The single-stroke roll: The hand pattern is Right (R), Left (L), Right, [...]

I’m sure many of you that use hydrogen or play drums, have made several beats which just lack spunk. So, in this post, I’m going to show you a very simple way of turning your bland beats into slightly funkier ones. Here is an .MP3 of a simple beat which is currently unpimped: Plain.mp3 (415kB) [...]