This is my drum pattern transcription in the style of "Radiohead - Videotape" as performed by Jonny Greenwood in their Scotch Mist version with a Roland TR-909. This is actually a nice opportunity ...
2025-02-26 12:34:10 +0000 UTC View Post
This is my drum pattern transcription in the style of "Radiohead - Burn the Witch". It sounds to me like the drum track was made on an Elektron Analog Rytm, so I had a go at the pattern on my Synta...
2025-02-19 13:20:02 +0000 UTC View Post
This is my drum pattern transcription in the style of the intro for "Cliff Richard & The Shadows - Do You Wanna Dance" as shown in the "Frankenstein It" segment of our 2025-02-15 09:58:16 +0000 UTC View Post
This is my drum pattern transcription in the style of the break part in "Captain Sky - Super Sporm". It's one of the two puzzle pieces used in the "Frankenstein It" segment of our 2025-02-11 11:40:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Our newest episode - hot from the oven onto your plate :) Everytime we discover a neat idea or an interesting trick while transcribing drum patterns, we throw it on our pile of notes. And for this ...
2025-02-08 15:56:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everyone! The new video is in the oven and almost done :) Today we finished filming the final scenes and now we're moving on to post-production and mixing. This episode is not going to be abo...
2025-02-02 16:17:27 +0000 UTC View Post
This is my drum pattern transcription in the style of "Kraftwerk - Numbers". This influential classic didn't make it into our Kraftw...
2025-01-30 11:50:16 +0000 UTC View Post
This is my drum pattern transcription in the style of "Radiohead - Myxomatosis". One hell of a rhythm - it's in 4/4 but it has a very polyrhythmic feeling. We had to google what "Myxomatosis" means...
2025-01-20 19:41:42 +0000 UTC View Post
This is my drum pattern transcription in the style of "Sir Mix-A-Lot - Posse On Broadway". This 808 classic was one of the most requested tracks in the comments of our 808 history video :)
Di...
2025-01-13 16:17:17 +0000 UTC View Post
This is my drum pattern transcription in the style of "hubbabubbaklubb - Mopedbart". Thanks to Steven Andrews for recommending the track! This funky Scandinavian synth tune is definitely worth a li...
2025-01-04 22:24:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everyone! We hope you're all enjoying the last hours of 2024 :) We're currently preparing the new episode for January and we're already pretty excited for next year. We've got a few things pl...
2024-12-31 10:48:20 +0000 UTC View Post
This is my drum pattern transcription in the style of "Portishead - Roads". This trip hop classic got suggested by a few people :) It's just one bar but we made three versions for you: An easy to p...
2024-12-27 15:02:45 +0000 UTC View Post
This is my drum pattern transcription in the style of "Róisín Murphy - Overpowered" as heard in our Short History of the 303 video...
2024-12-14 13:51:12 +0000 UTC View Post
This is my drum pattern transcription in the style of "The Pump Panel - Confusion (Reconstruction Mix)" as heard in our Short Histor...
2024-12-11 22:14:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Our new video is finally out! If you followed our recent drum pattern and Cheat Sheet releases this might not come as a surprise to you ;) This is the next entry in our little "Short History" serie...
2024-12-03 18:00:19 +0000 UTC View Post
We currently have a DinSync RE-303 in our studio so we made a Cheat Sheet for it :) It is of course very similar to that of the TD-3 (2024-11-28 15:05:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Update 2025/01/20: Added BPM
This is my drum pattern transcription in the style of "Josh Wink - Higher State Of Consciousness". A true 90s Acid House / Rave classic with a few tricks...
2024-11-22 12:32:01 +0000 UTC View PostNever a dull moment. This week a heavy wall-mounted shelf in our studio crashed down, dragging lots of stuff including the entire camera and light setup down with it. It didn't happen while we were...
2024-11-15 21:38:34 +0000 UTC View Post
This is my drum pattern transcription in the style of "Phuture - Acid Tracks". It is widely regarded as the track from which the entire "Acid House" genre took its name. On drums it features a 707 ...
2024-11-12 12:18:34 +0000 UTC View Post
This is my drum pattern transcription in the style of "Roy of the Ravers - Emotinium". It's one of the songs that will make an appearance in our next video ;)
The drum track consists of a ver...
2024-11-03 21:16:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Apparently you can never have enough 303s and this is the most recent newcomer in our studio. We won't make a review, but I'm very happy with the purchase and it might make an appearance or two in ...
2024-10-28 11:39:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everyone! While we're still very busy working on the upcoming video I took some time off to write the next chapter of our Drum Machine 101 book. It's about microtiming or step nudging - one o...
2024-10-19 08:23:02 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone! A few of you asked about how we made certain sounds on the Korg Monologue so we thought we'd make a tiny preset pack with the various sounds we created for our videos. You can load ...
2024-10-10 10:44:48 +0000 UTC View Post
This is my drum pattern transcription in the style of "Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus". According to various credible sources the original was made by either stomping on a piece of metal, flight cas...
2024-10-06 12:33:02 +0000 UTC View Post
This is my drum pattern transcription in the style of "Depeche Mode - Enjoy the Silence". For our version we used DMX sounds because of the three distinct Hi-Hats (and of course the very punchy sou...
2024-09-28 09:35:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Our new video is out! Get yourself a good dose of Depeche Mode and join us as we escalate quickly from a simple yet functional drum pattern to a full-fledged layering nightmare. We had so much fun ...
2024-09-26 15:03:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everyone! While we're in the post-production phase of the newest episode here is another update to the book with a new chapter: "909 Guidelines" (and a smaller one "808 Guidelines"). This is ...
2024-09-20 09:42:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everyone! We just wanted to let you know that we're currently in the midst of filming the newest episode of "Drum Patterns Explained" :) This time it's going to be a longer video again (surpr...
2024-09-11 14:37:20 +0000 UTC View Post
This is my drum pattern transcription in the style of "Kraftwerk - The Man Machine", another classic from the eponymous album. It was a close contender for our Kraftwerk video last year. It's short...
2024-09-03 08:04:00 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone! Since we always get such great drum pattern recommendations from all of you we wanted to ask this time what your favourite 303 basslines are. These might or might not be for a video...
2024-08-27 15:09:28 +0000 UTC View Post