Ableton Live 11 Tutorial - How to Program a Drum Beat

This is a tutorial for Ableton Live 11. It is presented by Lorne Bregitzer, an Associate Professor for the University of Colorado Denver and an Ableton Certified Trainer.

This is designed for musicians just starting with Ableton Live. It is created to get people up and running and making music as quickly as possible. This is an alternative to books that are poorly written or do not present a logical workflow.

In this video, you will learn how to manually program a Drum Beat in Ableton Live. You will learn how to take on of the provided Drum Kits from an Ableton pack. Then manually draw in your own drum beat. You will learn to mute certain aspects of your drum beat, as well as change the velocity of the drums to add dynamics to them.

These videos include a Tour of Ableton Live, Clips & Scenes and many other topics. This series is free and developed to supplement my university electronic music courses.

[coolabeg]

Excellent tutorial! Been looking for a while to learn how to add drums to my composition and you taught me exactly what I was looking for. Thank you!

[simonmccafferty]

Thankyou, that was really useful. I was able to follow as you explained ALL the stages and keystrokes clearly and with examples. This is not often the case with tutorials like these.

[hollowmenrule]

Shift tab. Thank you so much. Forgot how to get that view.

[michaelmadison]

Not gonna lie ive been struggling with this aspect and you just simplified this issue for me thank you.

[Ranma]

thanks for this video bro!!! learned a lot in just a few minutes ('cause you´re also telling the short cuts in between and u r explaining the single steps very well, sir). may the music-god bless u <3

[SalsaBro]

Wow thanks so much!! I didn't understand how to do this at all and you made it so simple to follow along and start programming drums!

[Buhassanali]

Man I am subscribing ! what a tutorial ! so clean and simple, it will help me creating the beats for the song I am working on now.

[hollowmenrule]

Yes pencil input is such a great mode on here. Best for
Beat making

[Catfold.]

THANK YOU SO MUCH I HAVE LOOK TO SO MANY VIDEOS AND THEY ALL MAKE IT SO COMPLICATED THANK YOU FOR MAKING ME BELIVE IN ABELTON AGAIN I WAS THINKING OF GOING INTO FL BUT THIS VIDEO JUST MADE ME REMEBER WHY I DONT USE FL.

[vibeoinktunes]

This totally helped dude - thanks so much!! Praise Christ4Life!!

[williamoldham]

Thanks Lorne! This really helped a newb like me. Great info.

[Bashanvibe]

That was the simplest how to explain 🔥🔥🔥

[Jamievanderwereld]

this was awesome! thank you so much :)

[JK-hrry]

Great tutorial - thank you very much!!

[mikef.]

Was helpful but I'm totally new to this and I'm trying to learn how to RECORD drums.

[JimBoom]

chop and swing does not come with all versions of ableton live.

[mattshaw]

how do u create the cells for the drum rack tho?

[HarryOsirian]

Very tiring. I much rather prefer a stepp sequencer. This type of beat can be done in less than a minute with REASON or FLstudio. 16 steps in no time. Why doesn't Ableton include a step sequencer?

[toddprice]

Set up Ableton 11 with a sapphire 816. Upon relaunch it is failing to launch audio engine . Love your videos. Any advice?

[ymelfilm]

first issue, there s nothing in my Paths