Trap music has become an incredibly popular and influential genre. It basically contains everything you really need to produce genres like Boom Bap, Old School Hip Hop, or even Lo-Fi, so feel free to check it out, if you’re still searching for a decent production library.Free Trap Drum Kits | Best Trap Sample Packs Thirsty for more?Īll of the loops above were made using Boom Bap samples taken from “Artifacts”, which comes with 1.98 GB of royalty-free content, including stemmed-out drum loops, drum hits, melodic loops, matching MIDI files, tonal one-shots, and more. This can also be achieved using Ableton’s Groove Pool, which is a great alternative, if you don’t have a MIDI pad, to “record” the pattern. You could for example replace the hat with a shaker or drag every second note a tiny bit to the right. However, there’s also a lot you can do with the hats. So looking at the drum loops above we only focused on the kick and snare.

Small surprises like this can be quite beneficial to get the listener’s attention back. However, the really interesting part about the fifth drum pattern is that you’d expect a kick to hit on the 3rd bar, which is however left out. The snare is also quite boring on this one. Some of the ghost notes are once again not perfectly aligned with the grid and have lower velocity settings than the hard-hitting ones. Here’s the snare just hitting on every second quarter note, without any variations, so all the magic is happening at the kick. We also added a bunch of ghost notes to the kick, which makes it almost sound like there’s some scratching involved.

Download MIDI Drum Pattern #3įor the third pattern, we removed all of the ghost notes from the snare, except for the last bar, which makes it sound somewhat like a small fill. However, some of the notes have still been changed. Listening to the kick, you’ll notice that this pattern is closer to the classic one than the first one was. We moved the offbeat snare slightly to the right side and lowered the velocity.

Download MIDI Drum Pattern #2įor the second pattern, we went back to 90 BPM. However, some of the notes have a lower velocity setting. In contrast to the classic pattern, every kick note is exactly on the grid. As you can hear, the snare hits on every second quarter hit, but we also added another offbeat hit every bar. Drum Pattern #1įor the first of our Boom Bap drum patterns, we set the BPM to 80, which is slower than the original Boom Bap. So now that you got the classic pattern, let’s take a look at some more interesting variations. This usually results in a more natural feel, since most of the notes won’t be perfectly in time. Pro Tip: Instead of drawing in the notes manually, try to record the MIDI clip using a MIDI keyboard or drum pad.

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