Drum And Bass / Hey Skimrok

[Skimrok]

[EdwardKiy]

The kick and snare are solid, mate, good job. You're missing the ghost notes and hi-hats for the DnB shuffle feel.

That Dragonborg dude makes it sound easy, but it really isn't.

[Skimrok]

thanks for checking taking on board your helpful advice, I cant believe I missed the hi hats my goodness I must of listen to it about 70 times ,

[TheDragonborg]

Hi-hats, ghost snares... a break layered underneath... maybe a heavily processed Amen Break...

[Skimrok]

I think I understand now, ok I get back to it over the next few days,I’m determined to get it right even if it takes me time

Cheers guys

[Skimrok]

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[EdwardKiy]

Forget about the tune for now. Mute everything except the drum lines so we can hear em. Doesn't sound like you got the shuffle quite right yet.

[Skimrok]

Forget about the tune for now. Mute everything except the drum lines so we can hear em. Doesn't sound like you got the shuffle quite right yet.

that makes sence , let me see a couple of videos because I don't think I'm doing it right anyway

[TheDragonborg]

Skimrok edited sample.mp3

I hope you don't mind this edit I have made... the timing is not perfect but this is the part of your bassline that stands out to me... focus on that... you basslines really need to be more focused...

[Skimrok]

Skimrok edited sample.mp3

I hope you don't mind this edit I have made... the timing is not perfect but this is the part of your bassline that stands out to me... focus on that... you basslines really need to be more focused...

yeah no problem ok bare with me please I'm not great at understanding and need baby steps, so in simple terms is this just sounding noise to you? I just checked I got 3 sounds going on , so does it need its own space away from the drums, example what really is needed please, im not good at multi tasking and get confused easy

[TheDragonborg]

Skimrok edited sample.mp3

I hope you don't mind this edit I have made... the timing is not perfect but this is the part of your bassline that stands out to me... focus on that... you basslines really need to be more focused...

yeah no problem ok bare with me please I'm not great at understanding and need baby steps, so in simple terms is this just sounding noise to you? I just checked I got 3 sounds going on , so does it need its own space away from the drums, example what really is needed please, im not good at multi tasking and get confused easy

I don't mean how it sounds just the pattern... sounds a bit random in the original tune... take a good pattern an use it throughout but add some variation every 4th or 8th bar... maybe some filtering that changes over it... can never have too much filtering.

[Skimrok]

yeah no problem ok bare with me please I'm not great at understanding and need baby steps, so in simple terms is this just sounding noise to you? I just checked I got 3 sounds going on , so does it need its own space away from the drums, example what really is needed please, im not good at multi tasking and get confused easy

I don't mean how it sounds just the pattern... sounds a bit random in the original tune... take a good pattern an use it throughout but add some variation every 4th or 8th bar... maybe some filtering that changes over it... can never have too much filtering.

right so less pattern on the bassline use them two highlighted instead and use effects to make it different throughout the tune at various stages

ok I give it a go in due course

[Skimrok]

no effects applied a short clip to see if this is the right order

[TheDragonborg]

Eh... you used the part of the bassline that I didn't really like... I don't really care for that "wump wump wump" sound but love the "bawum - bowah" sounds in the sample edit I had made.

[Skimrok]

Eh... you used the part of the bassline that I didn't really like... I don't really care for that "wump wump wump" sound but love the "bawum - bowah" sounds in the sample edit I had made.

should have this done early June thanks for the guidance

[Skimrok]

nearly done hopefully

[Skimrok]

this is the whole tune now

[TheDragonborg]

Still I think the drums need more focus... they are all over the place...

[Skimrok]

Still I think the drums need more focus... they are all over the place...

can you highlight what you saying more please because without this information I'm going to struggle what i need to fix or do with the drums

thanks in advance I'm very grateful

[TheDragonborg]

Still I think the drums need more focus... they are all over the place...

can you highlight what you saying more please because without this information I'm going to struggle what i need to fix or do with the drums

thanks in advance I'm very grateful

I just think you need to clean up those snare rolls... perhaps using a lighter snare sound would help...

[Skimrok]

can you highlight what you saying more please because without this information I'm going to struggle what i need to fix or do with the drums

thanks in advance I'm very grateful

I just think you need to clean up those snare rolls... perhaps using a lighter snare sound would help...

Thank you, yeah i will give it some attention this week

[TheDragonborg]

And by a lighter snare... I just mean for the rolls... keep the heavy snare for the main hits...