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 [...]
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) [...]
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 [...]
