If you hate your hihats, watch this video
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- Опубліковано 14 тра 2024
- The hihat and high percussion in your music is the energy infrastructure of your track: it's super important to get right, but can't be too interesting or it will distract from the lead elements. How do we program good hihats? How do we make them sound alive?
This tutorial shows concepts that apply in all different DAWs as long as you have a sampler plugin. I'll be working in Ableton Live 11, myself.
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Contents:
0:00 Get your education pants on
0:57 The natural upbeat of music production
2:11 The four levels
2:57 Level one, the programming
4:23 Syncopation
6:53 A B A C
7:43 Level two, sound design
9:12 The three tools of hihat sound design
9:24 The ADSR
10:42 LFO - time
13:01 EQ
14:42 Transient designer
15:59 Level three, the group design
20:02 Level four, too much fun
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Oscar, sometime in the last few months your videos have just gone to another level. Super practical, inspiring, and just a lot of fun to watch.
I concur!!
Yes, so much value in these, thank you Oscar, amazing work!
"Name one genre that doesn't use high hats!"
"Baroque!"
"I know it, you can't!"
"Oh okay I can't!"
Hahahahaha i cant argue with that
I thought of gamelan music, but baroque fits too.
johnny sinns really can do any job
I hate to say it but hi hats are always an afterthought for me. Gonna change that now
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Almost 25k people hate Hi Hats! Good video, was fun to watch.
That's funny lol
One technic I developed for myself is to have different hi-hat sounds on L/R or L/C/R. This make search space wider and finding groves more fun. Can’t wait for 12 update to get more playful with midi manipulation features.
Plus what you’ve listed, Oscar, in such a pristine presentation. Great delivery, enjoyed your skills on top of musical inspiration.
Must sound great on a mono club set up.😂🇬🇧😂😂
@@Endle185 One place my music will never play is in club LOL Best case scenario in ear buds and studio cans of few dedicated friends listeners …. one of them is … me 😂
@@Endle185this won’t necessarily mess up the mix on a mono sound system. It’s the phase of stereo effects you need to watch out. You can and should always check mix in mono as part of the mixing process
@@JamesMcMeekennot just phase effects. Also just simple loudness. When layering things that share frequencies, you’ll probably need to turn down the elements being layered more if you just used on of the elements alone
I really love how in all the arts the artists use words like "airy dustiness" to describe stuff, so cool.
Nice! Please do shakers and tambourines next. I struggle.
buy one get a mic, shake it, record it , put it in sampler. genius.
Aaaah....i think you mean the Shirley's and the Twirlies
Shaker- literally just use some white noise with hipass and shortish delay.
Tambourine- don’t know how to help you here, sorry ;-;
Can you make a video diving deeper into the idea of a ‘global groove’ that you hit upon at 18:30? And Techiques to further accentuate the global groove of a track - like compression, etc.
Brilliant opening description. Theory of hats! love it.
Loving these videos so much. The emphasis at the end of every video on HAVING FUN is an all-too-needed reminder to our community. So important to love the process & stay inspired.
One of my favorite vids from this channel by far
Looking forward to watching this! Just what I needed.
This comes in the perfect time. Been searching for how to improve my hats for a while. Hope this thing is gonna help a bit
I had to been my weakness for probably the past two years since I started trying to write this type of music. Thank you so much for showing how you create manually the swing-groove!
Ty Oscar. You put some groove on my hats and a smile in my face with the level four
Fun and well put together!
Hhahahah I LOVE the energy right from the start 😆
I can tell you had a lot of fun recording this video :) Great work!
Hats off to you sir! :D
I see what you did there!
Legend! Fantastic video
hahaha this is great. on point and fun. good to see ya happy bro! thanks for the vid x
OSCAR, you are seriously one of the best dance music educators out there, thanks for another masterclass
Very cool!!! When I started watching your lessons, I finally started to understand how it all works!
Oh my god! It was such an awesome tutorial. Thanks man!
Literally watching this on the bathroom... loving your videos btw such good work and of great value all the time
Love you papppi always fun and engaging educative videos 😘😘
Also one of the main issue I see in tracks made with sample packs containing loops (of course used unedited): The loop(s) don't match in groove or even fight against each other. I see this a lot both in drums as well as any other elements. Your lesson was very valuable, I think. Great work.
What a great tutorial. As someone who is lazy with drum programming, especially when it comes to hi-hat patterns, you’ve opened my eyes to what is possible. Thanks so much, I’ll be spending more time on my hi-hat patterns in future 😊
I live for that ending 😂 go off king 🔥
Dude I love the way you teach. It involves both the heart and the brain elements of music.
Amazing and helpful as always❤
Great intro!! 💯 and overall content of course
Got my education pants on! Great session. Definitely learning something good.
Thanks so much, you are a great teacher! ❤
Think you’ve outdone yourself with this one. Good stuff. Also the intro was so fun hahah
Man your tutorials go above mere education, this is wisdom
More cowbell!
Excellent video, Oscar!! Thank you!!
That was super helpful, loved it!
Great video, thanks Oscar! I almost always lower quite enough the level of my hi-hats, so they can be heard less, but still be felt in the track.
Thanks bro ! Really inspiring
Great video as always!
This video was absolutely perfect. A niche topic, but so well described
Brilliant as always - love your dancing 😅
Sounds wicked!
This is really great, inspiring stuff. Though I have to say, the section on group design has a really strong "now draw the rest of the owl" vibe.
loved the intro!
this is a nice channel, professor. It's very nice to watch this for me. Affirmative to my pioneering and deepest top underground secret research lab work at the dawn of electro. So glad to see other researchers,scientists and professors came to the same results, solutions and paradigms.I Look forward to watching more and enrage in debates about new breakthrough solutions, ways, levels and future experiments.
Masterfully explained!!!! Very useful !
Thanks a lot Oscar !
one of the best hi hat tutorial i've seen now !
nice and funny , some of the steps were really nie to see and hear :)
I like to think that groove is the play between the hats and their troop of subplayers, in the 16ths and beyond.
I feel touched to get a like from the maestro!
so simple but so deep, thx Oscar!
Thx a lot, that was the video I really really needed. It helped me a lot !!
Some of us old fogies program on hardware and I still find this info useful. Bravo
super great tutorial
Hats have always been an Achilles heel for me, where i have disregarded projects just cuz I couldn’t get the tops right. THANK YOU for this! Im certain I won’t be repeating past mistakes again and have fun experimenting with the most hypnotic part of a track 🤘🏽
I have replayed that "SCHLACK, SCHLACK" at 9:38 more often than I care to admit
Me too. Oscar, you should sample that!
dude, honestly, at second 48 I stopped the video right now and gave u a streight thumbs up :D these are the vibes man haha love your vibe! and now putting on my helmet to be prepaired for the gems u`ll throw at me in the video! ;)
Amigo muchas gracias por tus consejos realmente son muy buenos y te cargan de energía, saludos desde México 🇲🇽
Really good video, short but super informative, thanks so much underdog
thank you so much for this masterpiece brooooooooooo
Very good job ! Helpful for me.
High hats are as important as kick !
awesome video! keep up the good work!
This is 100% an area I'm lacking. Thank you for sharing your knowledge!
Hell yea
Very informative video, thank you
Awesome lesson!
Thank you!! Super timely. I was just struggling with mine a few hours ago 😢
Really like your style of explanation. That is all :)
Thanks for making this....One of my weaknesses in production I think...Could always use more Hi-hat tips.
Thank you so much ☺️
hihats are those things where the open one is between the kicks and the closed on every sixteenth. that sums up my hihat pattern i use. i hate programming them, usually i just get some top loop or a shaker and be done with it.
This is good because there’s a tendency to program hats in predictable ways I find , and I want to find different/ more interesting approaches 👍👏
Yo I'm glad I discover this channel, keep up the good work !
By the way I'm from Belgium too :)
You should check out Au5's FM technique for synthesizing cymbals. Noise based Hats don't always work and they can get a little dull if overused.
Especially the reminder to keep it simple totally gets me. My HHs are mostly wayyyy to busy and over the top… 🤪🙌
The dance at the end bro 😂😂👏🏾👏🏾
Very good, thank you 🙏
love the motivational intro haha
Hey!
Amazing job as always ❤ But where was the best part, "Stay producing, be good to each other and take care" ?
Oh good, you sat down after the intro. That stance is a spine killer, maaaan.
Also, I don’t have a sampler, and refuse to take the time to learn a DAW. Happy to apply the ideas to other gear / software though!
Heavy glitchmob style glitchhop doesn’t use them persay but uses glitchy sounds to fulfill their purpose
Another fantastic video, thanks Oscar! If anything would be good to elaborate a bit on where all the percussive elements sit programing and frequency wise..
Awesome video!
Great video!
Amazing
yeah i feel like that, love listening to crispy hi hats but i suck at making them
pls make more of this and rhythm stuff there isnt alot of that on youtube
BRILLIANT 👍✌️
Thanks Oscar 🔊Top man
This is great as far as programming is concerned. However, years ago when trying to solve this problem, I just went to the local pawnshop and bought a pair of old Ludwig high hats, riveted the bottom cymbal, and it has worked like a charm with my tube vxl mic for over 10 years! Change rooms, use plate, try a large picture window with a surface mic to get that weird phasey sound like when a car drives by-no probs! I also mic up a $20 pawnshop snare drum-great variety of sounds!
Good info though Professor! Thanks!
A video on the hi Hats and the "groups" would be appreciated. Like actual visual demonstrations changing out hh for rides, using and adding an energy reverse etcetera and building a solid drum groove. Just want to improve my drum programing. Thanks in advance 😊
Gosh, KHS transient shaper is in this vid - absolutely love this freeware transient masterpiece! In my humble opinion, delays are always top-notch for giving hi-hats more flight - the trick from the dawn of dance music (early "Prodigy" albums and so on).
Besides, I recommend the advanced trick with MIDI arping. Any MIDI Arp plugin gonna work, but in freeware terms "Fanan Team - 999gen2" is just excellent for hi-hat variations. I am not an Ableton bloke, but the FL Studio one - in FL Studio MIDI Arping looks like this: freeware Grace sampler with any hi-hat on the board + Fanan 999gen2 = GREAT FUN!
Nice thanks 😊
Fking hell. It happened first time to me. I caught myself (twice already) after hitting that like button i accidentally unliked this video. Again. Meaning. I love it and I am ready to hit like button whenever I come back to it. Fantastic channel.
Hi hats convey the feeling of the bpm / speed of the track. A 160bpm track with consistent 16ths on the hihat can FEEL faster than a 180bpm track with only kicks on the 1/4 notes (and the occasional 1/8 accent kick)
Dude, it's not often that im like" whoa ---for real" Noice one
Cool lesson! Thank you.
For me very useful tweak - hearin' drum lessons or breakdowns and try to imitate what i hear - live pro-drummers used some "drum magic" =)
Aside from smaller aspects, the main deal with hihats is what function they are supposed to cover in a track and how you achieve that. A very important aspect is how high in the frequency spectrum high hats and other individual cymbals are and which and how many you layer to create and take away tension and drive throughout your track. The same goes for the envelopes. In certain genres (like Berhain Techno: Subzero (Original Mix) · Ben Klock) you have a low frequency shaker type of sound, a low pitched sample probably. In more forward going tracks you would have more layers and rides in particular to add more and more drive. Sometimes, you can use noise sounds (like noisy vinyl sounds or background noise floor from an analog recording). These sounds have more of an aesthetic function in contrast to a hardgroove Techno track where the hats are supposed to drive the track forward.
You made a video about music having to have a steady element so that groovy elements can be groovy in relation to the steady element, the metronome video. That is one purpose of hihats, not the only one but an important one. And I would say that with hihats, you can create patterns that are not just 4/4, 8/8 metronome type of click tracks but are groovy yet serve as metronome of sorts. But you need to have the idea that some tracks have that and that this is a thing. Then you need to find out how to do it (hint: short rhythmic patterns that drive the track forward and have a recognizable identity. So you need to make it a bit interesting otherwise it's too generic. But when you try to make it too clever, it's going to be too clunky.). You added modulation on the decay. That is a good idea but it wasn't rhythmically functional but random. Can use intentionally make some sounds have different attacks and decay phases so that this creates a certain rhythm? Can you then modulate these to make the contrast stronger and then dial it back again to help evolving the entire track? Can you use pitch on your hihat samples to create and take back tension?
What can you do with delay and reverb on individual hihat tracks, or even individual hits (so just one particular hihat hit instead all hihats of that type)? Take a listen to Beautification by David Alvarado to get an idea. When you use white noise to create hihats, where do you distinguish between a hihat function and a snare drum/percussive function? What other effects are useful for hihats (distortion, flangers with and without envelope followers, phaser, ...)? What is the relationship of hihats and snare drums in Techno and House? Can snare drums be an extension to hihat tracks with more weight? ... There are so many more things about hihats..
your video's are so good! Thanks for the info's, just by listening to you I learned so many things... Thanks for sharing al that knowledge!!!
Struggeling a Lot with hihats.. great Video, great content! 👍
But would have love to See more of grouo Processing... Compressing, detailed eq, sidechaining, reverb, panning, group saturation? ... But maybe i am just overthinking once again 😂