Name of Workshop: Basics of Beat Making

Total Hours: 9 (1 Day - 1 hour break)

Workshop Description: This foundational workshop offers a practical, hands-on approach to drum and beat making, catering to the current music landscape. Students will learn to construct, perform, and record various grooves for contemporary popular music. The workshop

Name of Workshop: Basics of Beat Making

Total Hours: 9 (1 Day - 1 hour break)

Workshop Description: This foundational workshop offers a practical, hands-on approach to drum and beat making, catering to the current music landscape. Students will learn to construct, perform, and record various grooves for contemporary popular music. The workshop covers essential components of the acoustic drum set, beat programming, world rhythms, drum machines, sampling, and groove looping. Analyzing both classic rhythmic theory and drum programming exercises, students will become familiar with creating and manipulating beats using digital samplers and software instruments on Iphones/smart phones and iPads/tablets and laptop computers.

Workshop Outcomes:

Successful completion of this workshop will enable the student to:

1. Describe beat production, programming, looping, and sampling.
2. Explain and illustrate the fundamental elements of contemporary rhythmic theory and world beat composition.
3. Compose and arrange beats using iPad, laptop computers, software instruments, and music IOS applications.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Describe beat production, programming, looping, and sampling.

   • Discuss the application of beats in music for digital media productions.
   • Discuss how energy, emotion, and mood are created in the rhythmic composition process.
   • Identify elements of beat production, drum programming, and electroacoustic sampling.
   • Discuss the practical application of beat creation in a modern recording studio.
   • Discuss the implications of the history of drum sampling and programming on the process of creating, composing, and recording beats and grooves.

2. Explain and illustrate the fundamental elements of contemporary rhythmic theory and world beat composition.

   • Identify key, grid, time signature, scales, tempo, push and pull, and rhythm.
   • Explain techniques of dynamics, tension and release, and call and response.
   • Describe the application of world beat form and structure in rhythmic composition.
   • Distinguish between genres and styles of drum patterns, grooves, and rhythms.
   • Identify and reproduce drum patterns, programming, and sampling techniques.

3. Compose and arrange beats with iPad, laptop computers, software instruments, and IOS music applications.

   • Compose drum patterns, grooves, and fills that support song structure.
   • Assemble beats using current technology.
   • Discuss and apply techniques and principles of drum arrangement to original compositions.
   • Discuss drum instrumentation in music genres.
   • Compose drum mixes using EQ, compression, time-based, and parallel effects techniques.

Prerequisites: Interest or aptitude in creative and performing arts, assessed through an application questionnaire.

Required Student Resources: Students are advised to contact us before purchasing any technologies (laptop, iPad, software instruments, applications, recording devices, microphones, headphones, and storage devices). A list of recommended technologies and suppliers will be provided during the workshop.

Optional Student Resources: Contact us for a list of books.

Nomadic Sound Research is committed to providing academic accommodations for students with documented disabilities. Contact us for requests and further information regarding academic accommodations.

Prepared By: Dave Gray