Incorporating Real Drums into Electronic Music

In this course, Josh Bess explains how to incorporate real drums into your electronic music, along with techniques to add natural feel and movement to your music creation and workflow. Josh demonstrates how to separate drum sounds recorded with a single microphone, how to warp multiple clips simultaneously, and other helpful techniques to apply to your own music creation.

Videos

• Introduction (02:30) - Josh Bess opens up the Live Webinar with an explanation of the topics for the day, along with welcoming new and returning guests to the live-webinar event.

• Incorporating Real Drums into Electronic Music (Lesson) (08:06) - Josh Bess explains how to incorporate recorded instruments into your electronic music, along with techniques to add natural feel and movement to your music creation and workflow.

• Where Do You Record Your Drums? (02:54) - Josh discusses where he records his live drums.

• Editing Out the Snare Drum (12:26) - Josh answers a question regarding how he edited out the snare drum from his recorded drum kit.

• Chopping Up the Sample with MIDI (14:10) - In this video, Josh discusses using the same idea from the lesson while chopping up the sample with MIDI.

• Messing Around with the Samples (03:55) - In this video, Josh Josh plays around with the samples and creates interesting new sounds at the request of a live attendee.

• Manipulating the Drum Loop with an Arpeggiator (09:03) - Josh answers a question about manipulating the drum loop with an arpeggiator.

• Webinar Outro (00:51) - Josh closes out the live webinar, and explains how to tune into the upcoming free live-webinar event.