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Let’s start with beats.

First of all you need to decide what sort of beat you want. Do you want a standard club style “Boom” beat or do you want something a little more sophisticated? If you’re not sure what I mean, all music is arranged into a series of different beats. In these blocks of beats 2, 4 ,8 and 16 are the most commonly used.

To make a 4 beat track the process is extremely simple. You will just need to find a good kick drum hit or sample and copy and paste it into your new track for the entire duration of the song. You can also use alternating kicks; this is quite a common process. A lot of people also have some kind of processing on some of the samples.

Now, a ‘break beat’ style track uses a variable beat which means it isn’t just the kick drum all the way through the track as we have previously discussed.

For example, let’s pretend that you currently have a 4 beat track and you want to break beat at a certain point. What you would need to do is put a kick drum on each 3rd beat for the duration of 3 measures and then after that put it on every other beat for just 2 measures. You can then use other synths and noises on any of the other beats on the 6 measures. After this you can copy and paste what you have so far into the entire track. You have now made a break beat track.

One of the pieces of software that makes this process particularly easy is Acid Music Studios, using this piece of software you can edit the track exactly how you want by making use of the programs cut, copy and paste tools. You can use these to copy and paste the 6 measures you have onto the rest of the track.

If you plan on creating a track that only has a steady kick beat all the way through, then you will need other elements to help fill the track up. The most simple way to do this is to add another percussion track on top of what you already have, then simply adjust the volume so that they match.

I hope this explains a little bit more how to start to create your very own dance track. There are just a few things you need to remember in order to become good at this, one of the main things is that you shouldn’t be scared to experiment. Remember to never throw away anything that you have done, there is always a possibility that you might think of something good to do with it at a later date. Secondly, remember to use your instinct, if it doesn’t sound good, it doesn’t matter if it is technically correct, music is all about how it sounds.

Acoustic Samples has released DrumTasteFree, a free drum loop sample library.

Features

•The DrumTAsteFree is a Rick Marotta Signature Hipgig drum set with paiste cymbals
•80Mo of samples recorded at 16 bits, 44.1khz.
•Custom mapping, you can assign every element to any key from the interface.
•Mappings presets: GM, V-DRUMS, IMAP, NSKIT (NDK) or default one.
•cc# controlled Hihat that features automatic closing sound.
•2 Cycle round robins.
•Sensitivity button to adjust the response.
•Detailed instruments: 6 velocity layers per round robin
•KONTAKT 2 or superior, EXS24 and SFZ. Feel free to do you own mapping and sent it to us so we can add it to the downloads!

Note: An Acoustic Samples account is required for the download.

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