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Now we cut the kick drum back to two beats, 1 and 3 The main variation is to play 8th notes on the hi-hats. The straightforward rock, 4-on-the-floor pattern Most of the new patterns simply divide the beat into smaller note values using 8ths and 16ths. Now we are going to start with the basic patterns and add some new ones.

So, if you want to have more than four parts of the kit playing at the same time we begin to move into octopus territory in the writing and playing. Floor Tom: Upper low range with clicks from the sticks.Īnother consideration is whether you are trying to emulate (mimic) a real drummer or are happy to have an octopus playing for you a real drummer can only hit four instruments at once at the most (unless they head-butt a cymbal or tom).Rack Toms: upper mid-range to lower mid-range with clicks from the sticks.Ride Cymbals: lower mid-range with lots of noise if hit hard.Crash Cymbals: upper mid-range with lots of noise in the initial hit.Hi-Hat Cymbals: upper mid range with some frequency overtones.Snare Drum: upper mid range with lots of noise in the initial hit.Bass Drum: in the bottom end of the frequency range, but sometimes with a prominent click from the beater hitting the skin.Why not have more? No reason we can’t.īefore writing for multiple drums we might take a moment to consider the ranges in which each of the instruments in the kit traditionally cover. Then any possible combination of any two beats or divisions of the beat within the bar.Īt this point, we have not used any duration values smaller than a quarter note even when we shift within the divisions of the beat, each note is considered to last its full value, particularly if the pattern were to repeat itself.

We then come to two beat patterns, on the first beat and third beat:

This can be then moved to any other beat in the bar or any division of the beat: The simplest beat that we can possibly make is to play a note on the first beat of the bar: Later on, I will look at other time signatures to see how we can adapt our basic patterns to them. We will also only split our beat into 16th notes. Our initial patterns will also be only in 4/4. Just about every popular music style is currently played in 4/4 time.