If you hate your hihats, watch this video

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Күн бұрын

The hihat and high percussion in your music is the energy infrastructure of your track: it's super important to get right, but can't be too interesting or it will distract from the lead elements. How do we program good hihats? How do we make them sound alive?
This tutorial shows concepts that apply in all different DAWs as long as you have a sampler plugin. I'll be working in Ableton Live 11, myself.
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Contents:
0:00 Get your education pants on
0:57 The natural upbeat of music production
2:11 The four levels
2:57 Level one, the programming
4:23 Syncopation
6:53 A B A C
7:43 Level two, sound design
9:12 The three tools of hihat sound design
9:24 The ADSR
10:42 LFO - time
13:01 EQ
14:42 Transient designer
15:59 Level three, the group design
20:02 Level four, too much fun

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@OscarUnderdog 5 ай бұрын

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@mjbellantoni 5 ай бұрын

Oscar, sometime in the last few months your videos have just gone to another level. Super practical, inspiring, and just a lot of fun to watch.

@M.W.777 5 ай бұрын

I concur!!

@aiden7274 4 ай бұрын

Yes, so much value in these, thank you Oscar, amazing work!

@ThePaulynho65 5 ай бұрын

johnny sinns really can do any job

@MagnusThorJonsson-v8z 11 күн бұрын

I took a forced hiatus from my production journey 3 years ago and I have been dipping my toe back into the whole production game again and I am glad that my reentry was on your videos. A lot of little techniques you casually demonstrate have turned out to solve so many issues I didn't know how to solve. Especially on the various ways you create that little bit of movement that I could never get right

@samprock 5 ай бұрын

One technic I developed for myself is to have different hi-hat sounds on L/R or L/C/R. This make search space wider and finding groves more fun. Can’t wait for 12 update to get more playful with midi manipulation features. Plus what you’ve listed, Oscar, in such a pristine presentation. Great delivery, enjoyed your skills on top of musical inspiration.

@Endle185 5 ай бұрын

Must sound great on a mono club set up.😂🇬🇧😂😂

@samprock 5 ай бұрын

@@Endle185 One place my music will never play is in club LOL Best case scenario in ear buds and studio cans of few dedicated friends listeners …. one of them is … me 😂

@JamesMcMeeken 5 ай бұрын

@@Endle185this won’t necessarily mess up the mix on a mono sound system. It’s the phase of stereo effects you need to watch out. You can and should always check mix in mono as part of the mixing process

@JackBlackNinja 4 ай бұрын

@@JamesMcMeekennot just phase effects. Also just simple loudness. When layering things that share frequencies, you’ll probably need to turn down the elements being layered more if you just used on of the elements alone

@RogerFaught 4 ай бұрын

I took "name one genre of music that doesn't use hi-hats, you can't" as a challenge: various ambient styles don't often use hi-hats.

@blairdactyl 27 күн бұрын

haha yeah i have several ambient tracks with no drums at all

@cheetahlion79 11 күн бұрын

That arrangement flow using the rhythmic cell was immediately useful. I rely too much on the randomize buttons. However this process made me realize that, even within one bar, there needs to be a more structured feel (for what I want to dance to). I started reworking a track I've been fighting with and within 5 mins it was 65% better.

@iamtheguitar 3 ай бұрын

"Name one genre that doesn't use high hats!" "Baroque!" "I know it, you can't!" "Oh okay I can't!"

@OscarUnderdog 2 ай бұрын

Hahahahaha i cant argue with that

@19Lqueen17 2 ай бұрын

I thought of gamelan music, but baroque fits too.

@Hari-du6pt 4 ай бұрын

I really love how in all the arts the artists use words like "airy dustiness" to describe stuff, so cool.

@cavedwellersound 5 ай бұрын

Man your tutorials go above mere education, this is wisdom

@CatFish107 5 ай бұрын

Oh good, you sat down after the intro. That stance is a spine killer, maaaan.

@CatFish107 5 ай бұрын

Also, I don’t have a sampler, and refuse to take the time to learn a DAW. Happy to apply the ideas to other gear / software though!

@user-rh5rr9wh8i 5 ай бұрын

Fun and well put together!

@stefankatic1337 5 ай бұрын

Looking forward to watching this! Just what I needed.

@CypiXmusic 5 ай бұрын

This comes in the perfect time. Been searching for how to improve my hats for a while. Hope this thing is gonna help a bit

@streglof 5 ай бұрын

Nice! Please do shakers and tambourines next. I struggle.

@mollyoko 5 ай бұрын

buy one get a mic, shake it, record it , put it in sampler. genius.

@Pavillionairez 4 ай бұрын

Aaaah....i think you mean the Shirley's and the Twirlies

@malegria9641 2 ай бұрын

Shaker- literally just use some white noise with hipass and shortish delay. Tambourine- don’t know how to help you here, sorry ;-;

@lightburning9693 5 ай бұрын

Brilliant opening description. Theory of hats! love it.

@minde1337 4 ай бұрын

One of my favorite vids from this channel by far

@gavisthename1 4 ай бұрын

That was super helpful, loved it!

@patrickguth3796 5 ай бұрын

Also one of the main issue I see in tracks made with sample packs containing loops (of course used unedited): The loop(s) don't match in groove or even fight against each other. I see this a lot both in drums as well as any other elements. Your lesson was very valuable, I think. Great work.

@emnigmamachine 5 ай бұрын

I hate to say it but hi hats are always an afterthought for me. Gonna change that now

@shuashock 5 ай бұрын

Same

@nimbusnoise 5 ай бұрын

Same same

@DunLan 4 ай бұрын

Same same same

@jvaddison 3 ай бұрын

Same same same same

@martinstagnaro 4 ай бұрын

Ty Oscar. You put some groove on my hats and a smile in my face with the level four

@Sasha_Shlyakhoff 4 ай бұрын

Oh my god! It was such an awesome tutorial. Thanks man!

@delugedj 4 ай бұрын

hahaha this is great. on point and fun. good to see ya happy bro! thanks for the vid x

@DielectricFailure 5 ай бұрын

I had to been my weakness for probably the past two years since I started trying to write this type of music. Thank you so much for showing how you create manually the swing-groove!

@paulthehorse 4 ай бұрын

Loving these videos so much. The emphasis at the end of every video on HAVING FUN is an all-too-needed reminder to our community. So important to love the process & stay inspired.

@Georgemelhem 5 ай бұрын

Love you papppi always fun and engaging educative videos 😘😘

@FfanitTech 2 ай бұрын

Legend! Fantastic video

@i4mt1m94 5 ай бұрын

Literally watching this on the bathroom... loving your videos btw such good work and of great value all the time

@LautaroGutierrezArbiza 28 күн бұрын

Thank you so much for sharing all your knowledge! Extremely helpful

@AlexblackTV 16 күн бұрын

I always put your videos when i need some kind of inspiration or motivation, thanks a lot!!!

@dennisrochat7747 5 ай бұрын

Think you’ve outdone yourself with this one. Good stuff. Also the intro was so fun hahah

@StephenJPilat 5 ай бұрын

Great video as always!

@royburrakaxmeoff 5 ай бұрын

What a great tutorial. As someone who is lazy with drum programming, especially when it comes to hi-hat patterns, you’ve opened my eyes to what is possible. Thanks so much, I’ll be spending more time on my hi-hat patterns in future 😊

@Mykicya 4 ай бұрын

Very cool!!! When I started watching your lessons, I finally started to understand how it all works!

@cush7696 4 ай бұрын

Masterfully explained!!!! Very useful !

@omapots 4 ай бұрын

Great intro!! 💯 and overall content of course

@iraklismoschonas5214 5 ай бұрын

Great video, thanks Oscar! I almost always lower quite enough the level of my hi-hats, so they can be heard less, but still be felt in the track.

@sophiefau1648 2 ай бұрын

thank you!! amazing video :)

@willespalazzo 4 ай бұрын

OSCAR, you are seriously one of the best dance music educators out there, thanks for another masterclass

@lnnerTemple 5 ай бұрын

Amazing and helpful as always❤

@MyshkoMusic 5 ай бұрын

Hhahahah I LOVE the energy right from the start 😆 I can tell you had a lot of fun recording this video :) Great work!

@docjoesweeney 5 ай бұрын

Got my education pants on! Great session. Definitely learning something good.

@wethepeople6940 Ай бұрын

You are an amazing teacher!

@remimonod5532 4 ай бұрын

Thx a lot, that was the video I really really needed. It helped me a lot !!

@Jo_van_Tatz.aka.Mr.T 4 ай бұрын

Thanks a lot Oscar ! one of the best hi hat tutorial i've seen now ! nice and funny , some of the steps were really nie to see and hear :)

@hastysnailsound 4 ай бұрын

Thanks bro ! Really inspiring

@kelvinlee18 5 ай бұрын

Awesome lesson!

@nimbusnoise 5 ай бұрын

I live for that ending 😂 go off king 🔥

@NebulizorOfficial 5 ай бұрын

Hats off to you sir! :D

@OscarUnderdog 5 ай бұрын

I see what you did there!

@MessingerDAD 5 ай бұрын

Thanks so much, you are a great teacher! ❤

@Sanny.V 5 ай бұрын

awesome video! keep up the good work!

@cassiomendes13 5 ай бұрын

More cowbell! Excellent video, Oscar!! Thank you!!

@LucBoeren 5 ай бұрын

super great tutorial

@slavak592 4 ай бұрын

Really good video, short but super informative, thanks so much underdog

@Azalraku 5 ай бұрын

This is 100% an area I'm lacking. Thank you for sharing your knowledge!

@M.W.777 5 ай бұрын

Hell yea

@the_tp 5 ай бұрын

dude, honestly, at second 48 I stopped the video right now and gave u a streight thumbs up :D these are the vibes man haha love your vibe! and now putting on my helmet to be prepaired for the gems u`ll throw at me in the video! ;)

@pavlekocbek 3 ай бұрын

this is a nice channel, professor. It's very nice to watch this for me. Affirmative to my pioneering and deepest top underground secret research lab work at the dawn of electro. So glad to see other researchers,scientists and professors came to the same results, solutions and paradigms.I Look forward to watching more and enrage in debates about new breakthrough solutions, ways, levels and future experiments.

@selfconscious_glider220 4 ай бұрын

Dude I love the way you teach. It involves both the heart and the brain elements of music.

@uhhhclem 5 ай бұрын

This is really great, inspiring stuff. Though I have to say, the section on group design has a really strong "now draw the rest of the owl" vibe.

@docjoesweeney 5 ай бұрын

This video was absolutely perfect. A niche topic, but so well described

@HWSNISNW 5 ай бұрын

Brilliant as always - love your dancing 😅

@crunkdwscrew 5 ай бұрын

Can you make a video diving deeper into the idea of a ‘global groove’ that you hit upon at 18:30? And Techiques to further accentuate the global groove of a track - like compression, etc.

@manavdraugu 5 ай бұрын

Very informative video, thank you

@krispysox 5 ай бұрын

I like to think that groove is the play between the hats and their troop of subplayers, in the 16ths and beyond.

@krispysox 5 ай бұрын

I feel touched to get a like from the maestro!

@Fundaground 4 ай бұрын

Some of us old fogies program on hardware and I still find this info useful. Bravo

@akmumtaz6723 4 ай бұрын

Hats have always been an Achilles heel for me, where i have disregarded projects just cuz I couldn’t get the tops right. THANK YOU for this! Im certain I won’t be repeating past mistakes again and have fun experimenting with the most hypnotic part of a track 🤘🏽

@bengineer_the 5 ай бұрын

Sounds wicked!

@jean-marcdecanter7719 5 ай бұрын

Very good job ! Helpful for me. High hats are as important as kick !

@ryanperrault8174 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for making this....One of my weaknesses in production I think...Could always use more Hi-hat tips.

@astoshowyouhow 5 ай бұрын

I have replayed that "SCHLACK, SCHLACK" at 9:38 more often than I care to admit

@ricardojmestre 5 ай бұрын

Me too. Oscar, you should sample that!

@alexmouthon 5 ай бұрын

thank you so much for this masterpiece brooooooooooo

@lemurdreamur9257 5 ай бұрын

Really like your style of explanation. That is all :)

@cassettedisco6954 5 ай бұрын

Amigo muchas gracias por tus consejos realmente son muy buenos y te cargan de energía, saludos desde México 🇲🇽

@toneworks_music 5 ай бұрын

Awesome video!

@arturom628 5 ай бұрын

Thank you!! Super timely. I was just struggling with mine a few hours ago 😢

@antonynewland5834 5 ай бұрын

This is good because there’s a tendency to program hats in predictable ways I find , and I want to find different/ more interesting approaches 👍👏

@Animo1681 5 ай бұрын

loved the intro!

@Maladaptation_ThiesWrobel 5 ай бұрын

Very good, thank you 🙏

@nicolasrouiller3885 5 ай бұрын

so simple but so deep, thx Oscar!

@AndyMangele 19 күн бұрын

I'm not a drummer (a home recording guy though) and I love the HiHat and the things it can do - in most of the cases it defines the whole pulse for a piece.

@banglondon987 5 ай бұрын

Great video!

@nifako5294 5 ай бұрын

Thank you so much ☺️

@raakam52 5 ай бұрын

Yo I'm glad I discover this channel, keep up the good work ! By the way I'm from Belgium too :)

@FaBianrecord 5 ай бұрын

Almost 25k people hate Hi Hats! Good video, was fun to watch.

@M.W.777 5 ай бұрын

That's funny lol

@meis18mofo77 5 ай бұрын

You should check out Au5's FM technique for synthesizing cymbals. Noise based Hats don't always work and they can get a little dull if overused.

@Frankk463 3 ай бұрын

Amazing

@helixrider 4 ай бұрын

Especially the reminder to keep it simple totally gets me. My HHs are mostly wayyyy to busy and over the top… 🤪🙌

@7thNoteOfficial 4 ай бұрын

The dance at the end bro 😂😂👏🏾👏🏾

@iMaXumal 5 ай бұрын

love the motivational intro haha

@qwertz862 5 ай бұрын

Nice thanks 😊

@isabellapakulska 5 ай бұрын

Another fantastic video, thanks Oscar! If anything would be good to elaborate a bit on where all the percussive elements sit programing and frequency wise..

@benlewis6453 2 ай бұрын

Great video again, thanks Oscar. You dance like Limmy

@asiel_ad 4 ай бұрын

Very good video

@antondhondt9851 5 ай бұрын

Gosh, KHS transient shaper is in this vid - absolutely love this freeware transient masterpiece! In my humble opinion, delays are always top-notch for giving hi-hats more flight - the trick from the dawn of dance music (early "Prodigy" albums and so on). Besides, I recommend the advanced trick with MIDI arping. Any MIDI Arp plugin gonna work, but in freeware terms "Fanan Team - 999gen2" is just excellent for hi-hat variations. I am not an Ableton bloke, but the FL Studio one - in FL Studio MIDI Arping looks like this: freeware Grace sampler with any hi-hat on the board + Fanan 999gen2 = GREAT FUN!

@davidjangdal 5 ай бұрын

Hey! Amazing job as always ❤ But where was the best part, "Stay producing, be good to each other and take care" ?

@LUPART 5 ай бұрын

“Charlies” I'm having that. I love The Charleston. And something I call “Charleston Techno”, too. Such swingers as; BLAM THE TARGET by Neil Landstrumm, Game Form by Joey Beltram and Cristian Vogel's Body Mapping. The whole album. GET YER SHUFFLE ON!

@stefanengel4714 5 ай бұрын

Oh shit, I think I just pissed my education pants

@BFHPET 5 ай бұрын

pls make more of this and rhythm stuff there isnt alot of that on youtube

@theproductionpark8265 2 ай бұрын

Thanks Oscar 🔊Top man

@sajp8859 5 ай бұрын

This is great as far as programming is concerned. However, years ago when trying to solve this problem, I just went to the local pawnshop and bought a pair of old Ludwig high hats, riveted the bottom cymbal, and it has worked like a charm with my tube vxl mic for over 10 years! Change rooms, use plate, try a large picture window with a surface mic to get that weird phasey sound like when a car drives by-no probs! I also mic up a $20 pawnshop snare drum-great variety of sounds! Good info though Professor! Thanks!