Production tip/thought of the day: linear drums
Added 2024-06-04 12:46:30 +0000 UTCLinear drumming means a style of drumming where only one drumsound can play at a time.
Prob the most famous electronic music track doing linear drumming? "Flim" by Aphex Twin (link).
A famous funk drum loop with linear drumming: Shack Up by Banbarra (link).
Linear drumming is great in tunes that otherwise are very busy or very melodic: keeps your drums more sparse! A lot of tracker or mono sampler stuff is linear drums.
So you don't necessarily do shakers, constant non-stop hihat line etc.
Upside? It liberates you from having to do busy drum sections.
The downside? Well, depending on style, it may not work, as you may want those shakers, fat constant hihats layered with kicks and snares etc (e.g. in a lot DNB).
It aims at a more minimal approach instead of very busy (sometimes in funk or some IDM like Aphex Twin).
BONUS: Dennis DeSantis writes about it a bit on the free Ableton PDF book on page 144.
Try it out!
Comments
Awesome as always! Thanks 🙏
Pete
2024-06-06 08:33:22 +0000 UTC
