Sam welcomes you and begins by familiarizing you with some basic Logic features that will be essential throughout the course, including changing the tempo/time signature, creating timeline loops, and navigating the timeline. Then you'll begin to build beats from scratch by clicking notes in the piano roll MIDI grid and manipulating them in various ways. Also explore the topics of choosing a software instrument, quantization, changing note velocity, applying "swing," incorporating ghost notes, and more!

Learn to create the most realistic and best sounding drums using your favorite drum software.

This course will first go through a lot of the technical aspects to get you and your preferred drum software ready to program. You'll learn the differences between programming in the key editor versus a drum editor and find out how to effectively structure your drum map and key commands. Individual lessons cover most of the commonly used VSTs and who you their interface, the sounds, workflow and how to assign individual outputs. After that you learn how to combine different VSTs to get the sound you want and we even cover some mixing techniques. If you have live drums and want to beef them up with some samples we also have you covered!

Welcome aboard! By the end of this course you’ll know everything you need to program the drums for a complete song from scratch!

We’ll go over the basics of the interface (drawing in notes, changing velocity, etc), the fundamental concepts of drum programming, how to program grooves, how to program fills, and put it all into action in a few examples.