Simple and effective hihat strategies

Here's a little video for those of you who wonder what concepts underlie simple & effective hihat lines. It's elementary drum programming for the top end of your track, and in Ableton Live we show the most simple controls to pay attention to to make it all work together.

Next week we'll look at part 2, the processing and EQ of these hihats.

Contents:
0:00 Let's talk about hihats
1:05 Laying the foundation kick & clap
1:49 Hihat Gears
2:30 Upbeat hihat
3:12 16th note rolling hihat
3:56 Ride cymbal
5:08 Hihat sound design
6:49 Using an LFO for modulation
8:29 EQ high-passing hihats
9:30 Jacking hihats
11:57 Draw the rest of the M1 House Owl

[archer]

Hands down the most useful tutorial channel by a mile. The techno rumble video was a game changer for me! Many thanks 🙏

[Yotrymp]

Drum sets are infinitely customizable. You can indeed have open and close hi hats at the same time! But it is a good thing to understand how a single hi hat works.

[tensorprodukt]

Amazing Channel! I am glad I found this! This answers so many questions that arose when I was making beats for fun! THANKS!

[topdawg]

Since you are a music school. Consider contacting the gc foundation they might sponsor your students and fund instrument acquisition. If you can't find them ask guitar center Denver. Teaching kids to explore music is a noble profession.

[Yerjckk]

Damm teacher, you make sexy ass beats! thanks for the knowledge mentor.

[theREALmushroomMusic]

Great Video but it has nothing to do with programming :D