Technique for Getting the Kick Drum Beats to Speed Up?

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2012/12/05 11:33:44 (permalink)

Technique for Getting the Kick Drum Beats to Speed Up?

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I've started working on Pop songs again (need the money ) and there is a style where in the place of a drum fill they get the kick drum to increase notes so it sounds like it's being played faster. Sounds like 16th notes to 32nd to 64th. Is there a technique for doing that other than manually?
 
One example is David Guetta,  "I am Titanium" but that one only speeds up once--there are many Top 40 songs that use this.
 
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    razor
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    Re:Technique for Getting the Kick Drum Beats to Speed Up? 2012/12/07 16:06:43 (permalink)
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    Re:Technique for Getting the Kick Drum Beats to Speed Up? 2012/12/08 08:16:27 (permalink)
    I think probably most of what's done commercially with this method is done by drum machine, but I could be wrong.

    the only way I know is to do it manually.  shouldn't be too difficult with groove looping or cut and paste, tho.

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    Re:Technique for Getting the Kick Drum Beats to Speed Up? 2012/12/08 14:23:05 (permalink)
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    I think probably most of what's done commercially with this method is done by drum machine, but I could be wrong.

    the only way I know is to do it manually.  shouldn't be too difficult with groove looping or cut and paste, tho.


    OK, thanks. I'll give it a try.

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    Re:Technique for Getting the Kick Drum Beats to Speed Up? 2012/12/08 15:50:54 (permalink)
    I was one of the first people to start doing this back about 20-years ago on the House music records I was producing in Chicago. We never thought it would become such a staple. Back then everything in dance music was all done with drum machines and many of them had "auto-repeat" buttons on them that would make any drum pad repeat hits at whatever pace you had your quantizing set to. I'd set it higher each time I added a section. So really it was done as kind of a quick cop-out to trying to come up with good drum fills over and over and over. I could drop one of those in about 30 seconds. Plus it ended up working well for the genre..... I guess drawing it on the grid view would be the quickest way to do it in a DAW.
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    Re:Technique for Getting the Kick Drum Beats to Speed Up? 2012/12/08 20:22:50 (permalink)
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     I guess drawing it on the grid view would be the quickest way to do it in a DAW.
     
    Yeah. That's a good idea.



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