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Four tips for authentic and rousing beats

SIGNATURE DRUMS BY LAYERING

1 The right combination

From a purely logical point of view, it makes sense: If you put two drums on top of each other, the result sounds fatter. It‘s not that trivial, however, because sound A does not automatically match sound B. A promising combination are synthetic and acoustic drums, here overlapping is as good as impossible. Let‘s create a beat.

2 Hip-Hop beat

We use the Toontrack Beatstation as a basis, although any other source with acoustic drums can also be used. With this we play a

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