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Sunday Bloody Sunday Hydrogen Drumbeat

U2′s song, Sunday Bloody Sunday has quite a complicated drumbeat, so I decided to make a Hydrogen song out of it. I have done this for three reasons: So that drummers can look at the Hydrogen drumbeat patterns and work out how to play it. So that guitarists can play along to a decent drumbeat [...]

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Making a Roll Sound Realistic

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, [...]

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Pimp my Beats

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) [...]

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My Attempt at a Hydrogen Drumkit

Hey fellow Hydrogen users, I have constructed a Hydrogen drumkit from recordings of my own Tama Superstar Fusion kit with Zildjian ZXT Titanium Rock cymbals. Below are links to both the hydrogen kit and a short MP3 demo which allows you to hear what the kit sounds like. Drumkit: Brian_Tama_Superstar Demo: Brian_Tama_Superstar_DEMO The above pictures [...]

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