Play with beats
Two bars, nine sounds, tempo and swing. Make anything.
Lesson 9 of 9
This is your sandbox, with every sound, two bars, and the tempo and swing you have learned about. Start from an idea of your own or rebuild a beat from the earlier lessons.
Your beat
Start with a kick and a snare, then fill in the rest.
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| Crash |
Ideas to try
Make the second bar a variation of the first. Build a house beat at 124 BPM, then drop it to 90 and add swing. Write a fill that leads back to the start. Take everything out except the hats and hear how little a groove needs.
When you like what you hear, choose Open in TuttiDAW. Your beat opens in the full editor as a drum clip, ready for a bassline, chords and a melody.
That is the end of the Beats chapter. The next chapter, Notes and scales, is on its way; meanwhile the style lessons show complete beats from two dozen genres.