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Unit 2: Groove · Lesson 2 of 11

Loud and soft is in the full course

Use quiet hits to make a drum machine sound like a drummer. About 3 minutes, in your browser.

  • All 11 parts of Unit 2, 9 cards and a project: give one beat three feels: a walk, a strut and a rush.
  • Every unit after it, as it opens
  • Your Unit 1 cards, beats and progress carry over
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Loud and soft

Use quiet hits to make a drum machine sound like a drummer.

  1. Shape the hits

    Done

    Drag the dial while it plays. First every hit is equally loud; then the hats go loud-soft; then quiet taps join the snare. On the grid, a quiet hit is a smaller box.

    Press play, then drag. 0 of 3 heard.

    96bpm
    1 bar on repeat
    Kick
    Snare
    Hats
    1. Flat
    2. Loud-soft hats
    3. Ghost notes

  2. Make the taps quiet

    Done

    Every snare hit here is loud, so it sounds like a machine gun. Keep 2 and 4 loud and make the three taps between them quiet: tap a loud box once and it goes quiet.

    3 boxes to fix.

    92bpm
    1 bar on repeat
    Kickalready there
    Snareyour turn
    Hatsalready there

  3. Which one?

    Done

    Three takes at a new tempo. One has quiet taps on the snare. Play each, then choose, and the card is yours.

    Play each, then choose.

    1. Which one has ghost notes?

  4. Lesson done

    3 steps, all done, and saved to your account.

    In your collection

    Ready to use: drop it into the beat maker, or find it any time in your collection.

    Your collection Try it in the beat maker

    Half-time is next. Move the snare to beat 3 and the same tempo feels twice as slow.

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