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Drum Programming Sheet

The document provides an overview of drum programming in music production, highlighting key plugins such as MODO Drums and Spitfire Labs Drums. It explains drum notation, emphasizing the use of the percussion clef and the importance of rhythm over note duration. Additionally, it includes drum mapping for virtual instruments and offers patterns for creating grooves in a Digital Audio Workstation (DAW).

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Drum Programming Sheet

The document provides an overview of drum programming in music production, highlighting key plugins such as MODO Drums and Spitfire Labs Drums. It explains drum notation, emphasizing the use of the percussion clef and the importance of rhythm over note duration. Additionally, it includes drum mapping for virtual instruments and offers patterns for creating grooves in a Digital Audio Workstation (DAW).

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Music Production

Drum Programming

Plugins
Here are the plugins shown in class:

MODO Drums:
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Spitfire Labs Drums:


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Drum Parts

Below you can find the names of each part of the drum kit. I highly recommend you to explore
MODO Drums in the “Customize” tab.

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Drum Notation

Drums and many other percussion instruments don’t use clefs. Instead they use something called
the “percussion clef”.

The percussion clef

But the percussion clef doesn’t mean anything in terms of pitch or what part of the drums to play.
What to play if you write a note in a specific line or space will be determined by the tradition of
each instrument. In the case of the drums, the most used standard is the one below.

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Note that sounds that are produced by the drums are notated with the conventional oval shaped
notehead, while the cymbals or any other “metallic” sound like the snare rim would be notated
with the “x” notehead.

Also observe that in drum notation we don’t care too much about the note durations, but rather
on when the note is played within the bar. That’s because notes produced by drums don’t have a
specific length. Rather, they are usually fast and die out quickly, except for big drums.

Here is an example of a simple pattern in drum notation:

In the exemple above, we can see that there’s a constant hi-hat playing every 8th note while we
have kick drum playing on beats 1 and 3 and snares on beats 2 and 4. So how would we bring
this to our DAW?

Drums Mapping
Most virtual instruments follow this mapping for drums.

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You can use these keys on the DAW’s piano roll to create drum patterns or to write some of the
patterns you find on the internet. For example, the pattern shown on the previous page would
look like this in the piano roll.

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Drum-ctionary
Below are some patterns that I’ve found over the internet that I believe would be very useful for
you to use on your own songs. Use them to create grooves in your DAW. You can also practice
performing them on the keyboard.

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