How to Make Tribal

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A Sonic 'How To Make' course giving you the low down on those mysterious tribal beats. Get to grips with drums used and how to slice loops in both Recycle and Ableton.

 How To Make… Tribal

 
Want to discover how a Japanese Taiko Drum, Chinese Thunder Drum or Djembe could make it into to your latest production, well this is the course for you. We cover tribal beats, using drums for basslines and extracting single drum hits from loops in this 7 video course
 
Course features:
 
• Learn to make music online, in your own time and at your own pace;
 
• Learn quickly from our high quality video tutorials, presented by industry professionals;
 
• Get the most from your equipment – there is nothing more frustrating than having kit and not being able to use it. You want to make music and Sonic Academy tutorials show you how!
 
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Videos Overview

Tutorial 1 - Introduction & User Interface

A quick look at what types of percussion are used in traditional tribal music

Tutorial 2 - Loading the drums

As the title suggest, we start here and load in the tribal drum sounds

Tutorial 3 - Building A Loop 1

We get a stuck in to creating our Tribal Drum loop using Abelton's Drum Rack and Impulse machines.

Tutorial 4 - Adding FX

We beef up our Tribal drum loop, with Ableton's built in effects.

Tutorial 5 - Building A Loop 2

Learn how to sequence an epic Tribal droop loop using Ableton's MIDI Editor.

Tutorial 6 - Tuned Drums And Resonator

We look into tuning our Tribal percussion using Abelton's Resonator

Tutorial 7 - Using Recycle To Extract A Hit

Using Propellorhead's Recycle, we chop up, slice and export loops for use in Ableton Live.

Tutorial 8 - Slicing in Ableton

Slice up your audio into midi parts and re-arrange to create some funky rhythms.

PLATFORM

Ableton 8.1.1

RELEASED

19/02/2010

DURATION

00h 42m

LEVEL

Intermediate

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