programming drum breaks

[adoan001]

for the most part, ill just play out my drums on my mpd. all my drum sounds are from my vinyl collection and other breaks but i havent really worked on beats using the full break and wanna try it out. im curious if u guys lay out a break and add sample chops over it, have a non-drum pattern made and try 2 find a break to use with it, or chop up the breaks and play the hits in the same pattern as the breaks. just looking for a place 2 start with this

[jjbing3]

for the most part, ill just play out my drums on my mpd. all my drum sounds are from my vinyl collection and other breaks but i havent really worked on beats using the full break and wanna try it out. im curious if u guys lay out a break and add sample chops over it, have a non-drum pattern made and try 2 find a break to use with it, or chop up the breaks and play the hits in the same pattern as the breaks. just looking for a place 2 start with this

I usually chop the drum break up into hits and make my drum loop, but THEN I add lower velocity snares or kicks throughout the pattern for a more breakish feel. Its hard to describe. I sometimes do use the loop as I find it, but it's got to be real dope. If I do that though, I'll loop the loop and then also chop parts out to add here and there over the loop. :-)

[komik]

I usually chop the drum break up into hits and make my drum loop, but THEN I add lower velocity snares or kicks throughout the pattern for a more breakish feel. Its hard to describe. I sometimes do use the loop as I find it, but it's got to be real dope. If I do that though, I'll loop the loop and then also chop parts out to add here and there over the loop. :-)

I do it the same way. If I find a dope break, I generally chop it up + save the full break with bpm to my library.
Usually I start my beats with the melody, so i can easily create a drumframework which supports my chops. But sometimes I try to find a fitting break instead of playing out the drums with single hits. I save the breaks with bpm just for situations like this! Maybe I have to pitch the break a little bit up or down to make it fit, but thats okay for me

[jjbing3]

I do it the same way. If I find a dope break, I generally chop it up + save the full break with bpm to my library.
Usually I start my beats with the melody, so i can easily create a drumframework which supports my chops. But sometimes I try to find a fitting break instead of playing out the drums with single hits. I save the breaks with bpm just for situations like this! Maybe I have to pitch the break a little bit up or down to make it fit, but thats okay for me

I dont pitch the break. I find the BPM of the original break and then timestretch it to my new project tempo, mu hahaha. (evil laugh)

[komik]

yessir, thats another way for gold if I'm pitching the break, I avoid to pitch the breaks too much, but I like the artefacts which occur, when pitching down. Timestretching creates some dope artefacts too! depends on my feeling which method I choose

[jjbing3]

yessir, thats another way for gold if I'm pitching the break, I avoid to pitch the breaks too much, but I like the artefacts which occur, when pitching down. Timestretching creates some dope artefacts too! depends on my feeling which method I choose

Yeah. Most of my break are at a slower BPM than my beats so I would be pitching up and that makes the drums sound too high. Timestretch or drum hit chopping is the better option.