OK let's look at another genre here.
And I think now we'll look at hip hop.
Now this is one that I've been kind of avoiding because it can go hundreds of different ways.
There's a lot of different ways a hip hop beat can go so two X tracked it down to its basic elements
is pretty tricky for me to do.
However I think I have figured it out.
So the thing about most hip hop beats is that they're really straight.
So no swing no nothing like that.
No nothing like that.
That was a very good English.
Uh nothing like that.
And they're relatively simple.
So we don't have like crazy high hats going like we had in trap or anything like that.
So we want to keep out of the way of the vocalist who's also doing really rhythmic stuff.
Right.
So we don't want the beat to be too complicated or the drums I should say to be too complicated.
So I'm going to kind of pick a random one a random kind of a hip hop beat and we'll build that.
So let's go to a 9 0 9 drum kit.
Because that there's a lot of drum kit you could use but this is a mighty fine one.
So let's go back to our basic beat.
So stairs and 2 and 4 in our high hat to ace notes.
So here's our basic beat.
So now that's not a great hip hop beat.
So let's craft this a little bit.
We do want our kicks and snares right about where they are.
However we want to add a few more kicks.
Let's put one here on the end of four.
Let's put one here on the end.
And the other four.
Sorry this was the up for the last 16.
Now here's the last sixteenth note and there's the end of three.
All right.
When I said and a four I met an R of one.
Let me try that again.
So we have Kix on one the R of one 3 the end and the end of three.
And that'll do it.
Let's add a little room click right here and here just for fun.
Got our snares on 2 and 4.
And let's liven up our high hat a little bit with this kind of a pattern.
So with the pattern we've got dat dat dat dat dat dat dat dat dat dat dat dat dat dat dat dat dat dat
kind of a feel so to what we've got now
think I might like that better a little slower tempo
add in a clap maybe
it's at an open hi hat right to fill in this whole
can it's not bad what we really care about is actually the basic beat you know if we go back to real
the basics that's our real lamp post here is the basic stuff you know we've got a kick in our snare
kick on 1 and 3 and our snare on 2 and 4 we can play around with more things around that but hip hop
is really based on having that snare on 2 and 4 and the kick on 1 and 3 there's more we can do with
it but as long as we have that and then we suddenly add some more things around here like let's add
another kick here and here right it's still going to feel pretty good
right.
So as long as we have a kick and a snare going in the fashion of our basic beat something in the high
hats not too complicated relatively simple then we can play around with extra kick hits and that's pretty
much it.
There's not a lot else happening.
Remember we want the hip hop beat to be relatively simple stays out of the way of the rapper.
OK so let's play with this a little more by looking at some examples.