Drum Patterns Explained: Every Eurodance Song Ever
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2021
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Eurodance... love it or hate it, but there are a few great beginner lessons in there. We listened to / suffered through dozens of Eurodance songs to bring you the common beat denominators that make up the genre. We had a blast making the episode (especially the chiptune renditions of the songs) and we hope you enjoy the trip back to the 90s 👾
We used a Roland TR-6S for the beat, all drum pattern transcriptions are available on Patreon.
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Produced by Jean-Claude Dirckx and Sophie Hoppstädter
Some of you asked for a tracklist, so here it is:
2 Unlimited - No Limit (Intro)
Scooter - How Much Is The Fish? (Part 1)
Vengaboys - Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom
Eiffel 65 - Blue (Da Ba Dee)
Corona - Rhythm Of The Night
La Bouche - Be My Lover
Haddaway - What Is Love?
Culture Beat - Mr. Vain
2 Unlimited - No Limit
Snap - Rhythm Is A Dancer
Technotronic - Pump Up The Jam
Scatman John - Scatman
Scooter - How Much Is The Fish? (Part 2)
Mo-Do - Eins Zwei Polizei
Aqua - Barbie Girl
DJ Bobo - Somebody Dance With Me
S'funny, at the time I absolutely, aggressively despised this genre, but got odd waves of nostalgia listening to these recreations.
Well, maybe apart from "Barbie Girl"
It’s all fun and games until you make an analysis on Gabber…
...and now I have a new playlist. ;-)
I'm pretty sure the one between "What is Love?" and "No Limit" is not "Mr. Vain" but Masterboy's "I Got to Give It Up"
Ah, salad days!
"Makes you want to grab the megaphone and ask the audience about seafood prices" - on the list of sentences said for the first time.
Brilliant Scooter reference
@@benjaminsmits2499 also great history about that song
yee-haw!
@@mrvein5934 I guessed it must be a reference to something, but I don't know what!
@@Kj16V funny thing about "how much is the fish, by Scooter" is that it originates from a song called son ar christr, im not a historican but its old as f, it have been covered so many times it might be world record, starting from acoustic folk / celtic to what scooter made in the 90s, then other people started making covers of scooters up to a point where we started seeing acoustic / classic style covers of it, In a way circling it back to the very beginning. i just find it kinda cool
'Pump Up The Jam" kind of changed my life in 1989, but until this video pointed it out I'd never noticed it had 3 open hi-hats per beat. Those crazy Belgians did something special there.
They just Pumped Up the Jam.
People don't read the labels these days.
The random horn shot at the end of every demo had me dying
Klaxon!
That was so wonderfully made, but at 07:00 it really got me killed XD "...something very good is coming - possibly a rap part"
The raps were so cringe-worthy and cheesy that UK mixes of them often removed the rap. 2 Unlimited's first UK hit "Get Ready For This" was issued as basically an instrumental. I'm sure the rapper (Ray?) was a nice guy, but "No Limit" was a really great club track that was "ruined" by the silly rap. The only part of the rap on the UK version (which was a huge number one pop hit) is the word "techno".
@@AutPen38 It isn't real eurodance if it doesn't have a shitty rap part.
I love that I knew every single one of these songs 😊
I also love that someone does.
I knew a lot of them but only recognized some of them
I never realized this is the drum machine lesson I always wanted!!! And where did you find my Sunday morning cleaning playlist? You're the best Captain!
😂 Hey Jeff, so glad you enjoyed it!
Great stuff, your comedic timing is almost as good as your drum sequencing.
Agreed. I love the subtle humor 👍
Ouch, Eurodance!
Captain don't hurt us, Captain don't hurt us, no more
Which Captain? Captain Pikant, Jack or Hollywood? 😉
I feel like I'm prepared for Eurovision now more than ever
great video! would love to see drum & bass, jungle, dubstep beats too
Jungle especially, I'd love to see ways to integrate drum machines into my tracks, it's something I often struggle with
Oh yeah D'n'B pleeeease!
Amazing video! Would love to see your take on Italo disco and eurobeat patterns 😁
Thanks! Do you have any particular recommendations regarding patterns?
@@CaptainPikant oh wow 🤩 thanks for your reply! so many good ones to list! here are some popular ones that come to mind-
King Kong - Boom Boom Dollars
Radiorama - Bad Boy You
Chip Chip - Radio
Michael Fortunati - Give Me Up
Sabrina - Boys
Gipsy & Queen - Call Me
Sheela - Gimme All Your Love
King & Queen - Turbo Lover
Niko - Night of Fire
Norma Sheffield - Touch Me Touch Me
Dave Rodgers - Deja Vu
Nathalie - Heartbeat
Cherry - Yesterday
Lolita - Try Me
Ace - Play the Music
Fastway - Spacelove
Love eurodance and (omg) I’m a part of currently acting eurodance band. hah, so fun to watch you doing patterns that I doing for some years already in every track :D accidentally stumbled at your channel while looking reviews of RD-9 and wow, how amazing your videos are!!! That’s sad you have not so much subscribers at this time, cuz I think it’s really better than 90% of “musical UA-cam” and believe that you will have really a lot in a while! Thanks so much, subscribed!
This channel is state of the art editing, good mood/vibes, knowlege and beuty
I saw the four gameboys and knew this was probably the new best video on the internet. I was not disappointed :D
Thank you so much 😄
Why did I watched this twice even though I knew already about all this ? These videos are soo good.
OMG. You've literally recreated my entire adolescence on a Roland drum machine!
so much joy in your vids. wonderful!
Great video, as always! Keep it up!
Your videos are incredibly well executed. Nice work.
This is a really good vid.
Keep up the good work, Captain!
You excelled with this one. I had a smile on the whole time!
I really hope you well and your channel to grow, that's some great content. I've been having some fun with my beatstep pro (plus vcv rack) and some ideas from your vids, thanks for everything.
Awesome lessons!
Thank you very much!
Exceptionally well made video! I enjoyed every bit of it :)
This is awesome! Thanks.
Your tracks always hit the right note. Keep them coming! 🎼👌❤
Please captain explain to us also harmony and melody! 🙏
Your videos are beautiful and nostalgic, I love them all! 😍
Eure Videos sind grandios, sowohl inhaltlich als auch vom Produktions-Level, vorallem die Stop-Motion-Sachen..wenn man das mal selbst gemacht hat, weiß man diesen Aufwand erst recht zu schätzen!
Just what I was looking for! 🤣 Thank you so much for the video, subscribed.
Thanks a lot author, very positive, beautiful video. I adore 1990's Eurodance🎹🎶
I really like youre videos man! Keep it, I think this chanel will go up and up!
Love the “No Limit” lead line at the beginning 👍🏻👍🏻
Thank you! Very clear and simple to understand!
Really love the concept and realisation of this video. Eurodance forever :) Cheers.
Great laughs, loved the video! Thanks!
This is brilliant! lol Kinda reminds me of that 3 chords for every pop song ever video.
This is just what I needed !
just had fun guessing the songs as you went. awesome!
This is fabulous.
And here am I, a true 90's baby who is singing every single song after just two beats of the presentations
Awesome, now I can program "Pump Up the Jams!"
Mr.Vain. what a song. 🖤
Tremendous, thank you.
Brillant - well done
Ah, another great video from captain *airhorn* Pickant.
I did NOT know I needed to know this,... now I'm addicted to Pikant..!!! 😊🤙🏄☘
thank you Captian Pikant for putting "Somebody Dance with Me" at the end
Your best video so far... ❤️❤️
Man, I‘m feeling 20 again when I hear this. Awsome 😄👍
Beautifully made video.
So true! Super content, as always! Funny and informative. The BPM is often 136 or 138. TR-909, snare roll, crash, all of it...Maybe Ms-20 laser kick drum every now and then. On the synth side, it is always subtractive. Mainly saw or dual detuned saw oscillators with low pass filter. (sometimes a PWM square or supersaw) For bass do the same. Sometimes saw and a square wave an octave lower. For authenticity (which I don't do) keep it dirty, don't do a lot of low cut EQ, use broad eq curves, use send fx for reverb and delay and chorus for all tracks, add harmonic distortion. (emulating a cheap mixer and the workflow) For samples don't go round-robin or multi, just take 1 sample and spread it across the keyboard. (Emulating old samplers, I shall try this too..maybe go 12 bit?) Touch of Organ bass (can do with stacked sines), Pizzicato strings, and a hint of TB-303... By the way, how much is the fish? :D
No doubt that Eurodance was the best thing that happened to "new" disco scene. After that was mostly on a downhill.
Seafood prices :))))). I hope Scooter are not watching ;-p. Brilliant as always, great job!!!
I may not have been alive through much of its hayday, but I still feel fondness for Eurodance because of DDR.
Wittily executed!
BRILLIANT
I've really started to think about getting a drum machine after seeing your videos. I do most of my drum programming in daw but it's tempting to get something more tactile. Tr6s seems like good piece of gear.
Quality work. Greetings from Bolivia.
Love this! Even though I find this comedic gold, I gotta admit I have a few Eurodance guilty pleasures (especially Mr. Vain and Rhythm is a Dancer)
Why guilty? You are absolved of guilt
amazing
This has officially made it into my “Happy Place” Playlist
My mind is literally blown right now
I have a Roland TR-06 and this was still pretty helpful for me! Personally, I'm trying to figure out how to program patterns for Drum and Bass, Techno, Trance, and Trip Hop, but I grew up listening to a lot of the tracks featured in this video so I found it quite informative!
Happy to hear that :) Let us know a few of your favourites from those other genres, we're always looking for new patterns.
@@CaptainPikant The first pattern I learned how to make was actually the percussion from Teardrop by Massive Attack! I have also successfully recreated a Bjork track, although I can't recall where I saved it. 😅
@@nenivTASTE! Any published songs? 🔥
@@Victorcolongarcia Unfortunately no, I don't really have the mind for recording, more for making and playing in the moment.
Dear Captain, I have no clue when it comes to drumming and music. So, sorry for the education going straight above my head. But I do love your videos for the pure entertainment value.
And this one... just takes the cake. It is a hilarious piece of entertainment.
What a nice video!
WOW, I loved this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
man you deserve a like for every air horn that appeared in this video, and then some !
So useful, id love to see some breakbeat stuff like the prodigy or chemical brothers
That's definitely on the roadmap :)
breakbeat!!! oh man you would be the perfect person to teach that
@6:22 "Ba-da-ba-da-ba-be bop bop SPECTRUM ONE"
How much is the fish?
That's my favourite episode of your series so far.
Ahh, the good ol' boots and cats beat. Keep up the good work!
(no boots, nor cats were harmed in the making of)
MASSIVE!!
Hahahahahahha. Your video style is aweso*FOOOMMMM
You activated my fight or flight instinct when you played boomx4
So good
There's no 'Oooomphtss' without 'tss'.
The words of a wise man.
Useful and hilarious
awesome idea for content ..could you maybe do an episode dedicated to snare drum rolls and meaningful fills.
I laughed, I learnt, I love it.
Excellent presentation on a genre I had not intended on trying. Excuse me while I pull out my drum machine. :),
Thanks so much and sorry for turning you to the dark side ;)
Do a video on programming Caribbean and jazz rhythms!
You are the capo!
Hello
Great vidéo!!
Can you do a review of the behringer TD-3 please?
Thanks! At the moment we're focusing on drum machines. But if you want the bottom line: Nice sound, not enough pattern slots, only 16 steps per pattern, plastic build quality, and an awful unintuitive sequencer that makes your life unnecessarily difficult (luckily it has MIDI-IN).
I love how the first thing you showed after creating the foundation, was that "Eurodance" is basically just speed up Disco music on a TR-909. 😂
The need for putting labels on everything in music is really funny... Whenever there's evolution it's called "cross-over" until someone can make up a new label. Jazz, Motown, Latin, Philly, Soul, Disco, R&B, Garage, House, Chicago House, Rap, Hip Hop, Rap House, Hip House, Latin House, Detroit Techno, Acid, Techno, EBM, Eurobeat, Dance House, Eurodance, Club House, Hardcord Techno, Gabber, 2Step, etc. ...and everything influences everything.😇
Funny! I'm thinking of picking up the 8S
More Rabbits please! Neverless a great educational video btw.
Funnily enough that Eurodance is actually doing a revival in pop music 😂
It will never die :)
This is both an amazing tutorial and making fun of how ridiculous euro beats are. Love it
I consider Ray Of Light by Madonna a eurodance song I have some guilty pleasure eurodance songs because they are bangers even though I'm a Latin Freestyle/ Electro Funk fan
I've watched this video 4 times already, thanks so much for making this video, it's helped me out enormously. Could I quickly ask, is techno similar, every thing I've tried just sounds wrong
I think techno is a much more diverse genre, so it would be hard to simplify it as much as we did in this video for Eurodance :) What kind of techno do you want to make?
@@CaptainPikant I'm thinking about 93 - 95 German/Belgium techno. Also have you heard of a track called 'Access' dj misjah and tim, that drum beat is a big favourite of mine too. Cheers mate
Yeah
I love eurodance
Fun! Fun! Fun!
Can somebody tell me what happened to crash cymbals? I was so used to the sound of a crash cymbal announcing and starting a drop or new section, but it seems it has disappeared. I mean, it was even in drum n bass (like Squarepusher and Aphrodite using it) and now it has disappeared from everybody's EDM drumkit.
You explained why yourself, everyone was using it, so the counter culture people evolved, and then the culture follows counter culture and normalizes it again. Basically it became uncool. But then of course it becomes cool to be uncool again!
I know all these songs but don't know the song names lol. Great video
It's the best dark chapter evar
Let me hear you say YEEEAAHH!
Possibly rap part 👌
Driving crash cymbals. This should be enough to let the audience know that you ‘absolutely mean it’. PMSL!
😍😍😍