Adding A Nice Effect to Your Drums with Drops and Mutes

Nowadays most producers are using some sort of updated piece of technology to make their drums, whether it’s the top of the line MPC, Fruity Loops, or Logic, most producers plug in some kicks and snares and sequence their drums to create a drum track. This is great, but there’s more that can be done to give your drums a fresh feel and help ya track. One of the ways you can tighten up your drum track is by dropping the drums.

Dropping out the drums, or muting the drums helps give ya track more feel and mixes it up so it’s not the same drum loop over and over. Try using them right before the hook or bridge, or even when ya emcee spits his hottest line so it really stands out.

Here’s an example of what we are talking about…as the track plays listen to the drums, eventually they will be muted for a nice effect:

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Additionally, you can just mute most of the drums except one part, say for example the kicks. Here’s an example where the snares and hi-hats are muted, leaving only the kicks:

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Remember, just because you might have made a sick drum pattern, don’t short-change yourself and stop there. Add some variety and mix it up to create some nice effects. Dropping out the drums is just one of the many techniques you can do – we’ll be definately dropping more techniques in the future so stay checkin in…oh and if ya feeling the track, it’s called Street Envy and is a free download from our downloads page.

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