When listening to a Hip Hop Instrumental, do you ever wonder how the drums were made? A lot of hip hop producers and beat makers use drum loops. Either original ones they recorded themselves or ones from vinyl records, movies, or whatever plays quality audio.
Its a common practice to find a drum break, then sample it out of the original song. Once the audio snippet is made for the break, you can copy and paste it or loop it to make it longer. A lot of Hip Hop Instrumentals utilize drum breaks or sounds that originated as a break.
Most professionals making hip hop beats will sample individual drum hits or chop the break up into smaller pieces. Once the break is chopped, you can re-arrange the hits to make different drum patterns. It is not uncommon to layer other drum sounds on top of the break.
To re-use the drum sounds for other hip hop instrumentals, you can pitch the break down, EQ it or run them through some filters. The Korg KaossPad 3 is great at filtering and modifying sounds. I’ve heard of Ableton Live, Cubase, Pro-tools or even effect pedals being used to effect audio and tweak it. There are other programs that you can use to make beats or effect drums, but those are just a few of the most common.
Ok, so whats the point of the post? Well, I wanted to give you some tools to make hip hop instrumentals with. If you are starting to make beats or are a seasoned veteran, drum breaks are always a nice find. Below, there are download links for 3 really cool drum breaks you can sample. In some future posts, I’ll filter these and make different patterns and post them up! You may have to right click and select “save as”
Hip Hop Instrumental Tools: Break 1
Hip Hop Instrumental Tools: Break 2
Hip Hop Instrumental Tools: Break 3
These drum breaks that you posted are pretty dope. I definitely plan on using them in some of my upcoming music production efforts!
Cheers,
Zee
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