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12 Tips for making better beats

1 Steal the groove

An easy way of adding flavour to a rigidly sequenced drum break is to extract the groove from another break you like into a groove template before applying it to your own creation – agreat trick for adding that familiar funk without breaching any copyright rules.

2 Pre-kick clicks

If your kick is lacking a bit of edge, subtly layering a high-pitched ‘click’ layer over it before using your DAW’s channel time delay to make it play 5ms before the kick will increase the perception of attack while

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