Now go to that track, right click on the drum rack and select „Ungroup”. That’s going to put the hihat, as well as its MIDI pattern on a separate track inside a Drum Rack. Then right click on the hihat chain and select „Extract chains”. Here’s how you do it:įirst, you need to open up the chains list in the drum rack. This way you’re able to change the hihat pitch easily. If we just edit the velocities, add a few hihat stutters and throw in a crash, the beat becomes this:Ĭheck out this article with top 5 trap beat elements.Ī useful trick for making hihat stutters is extracting the pattern from the drum rack onto a separate track. There’s a few ways of making the pattern more interesting. We could substitute the additional kick and snare with another sample like this:Ĭheck out this video about making trap beat patterns!

The „bounce” spots are the 8th and 10th hihats. I also added an additional kick and snare to give it a bit more bounce. The kick at the beginning is also a must. The snares are always placed in the middle of each bar. Here I made a very simple pattern with 8th notes all over our 2 bar clip. (As for the tempo, I like to use 150 as a safe BPM - anything above that will be considered fast.) Here’s the most simple pattern you can make.

Once you’ve selected your sounds and put them in a drum rack, it’s time to make a pattern. If you’re looking for trap drumkits make sure to check out mine (12 drum rack kits & over 190 sounds). The most famous kit is the Lex Luger drumkit, but the other popular ones are for example Cardiak’s kit and Young Chop’s kit. Some mainstream trap songs experiment with samples, but most beats are made out of very few essential drumkits. All trap hihats are pretty similar - a very short „808” type hihat is going to do the job. The snare is an important element which gives you the most variety - you could even substitute it with a clap sound. Most kickdrums are short, clipped and lowpassed. All of these sounds should be short and snappy. The sound selection for trap isn’t hard either.Ī trap drumkit must contain of at least 3 sounds - kick, snare and hihat. Most trap drum patterns follow a similar formula. In this article series I’m showing you my trap beatmaking workflow in Ableton Live! Part 1: DrumsĮvery beat’s core is the drumbeat. In fact, most of them consist of very few elements. Making a trap beat shouldn’t be too complicated.

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