Snare rolls are classic

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When you're building up energy towards a big transition in your song, a classic technique is the 'snare roll'. Let's look at it and talk about how to do it easily in your DAW!
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Contents:
0:00 What are snares and what do you do with them?
2:06 A techno example
3:35 A housey example
4:30 How to make a snare roll from scratch
6:07 Snaredrum parameters
6:40 Trying various other drum machines
7:50 Snaredrum frequencies
8:55 How to make an EDM snare build-up
11:08 Dancing outro 💃

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@OscarUnderdog Жыл бұрын

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@matyasmuller7136 Жыл бұрын

you are hands down the best teacher there is, i learned so much throughout these few months since i started watching your videos. Thank you very much sir.

@Me-Lo Жыл бұрын

Not sure what is more fire, your 909 skills or your nail game 💅

@tresporros Жыл бұрын

on 909, you usually start rolls from super short decay on snare, and progressively make it longer (it sounds almost like velocity/accent as our ears perceive longer decay notes as louder

@Arcessitor Жыл бұрын

Leaving a comment to show you some love.

@DJeMo Жыл бұрын

Got yourself another sub, inspired by your love 🧠🔨🔧🖥️🎹🔊🎶🚥💃🕺🕳️🖤🖤🖤🖤

@cookiesup2music Жыл бұрын

Same

@markuskopter Жыл бұрын

That "snare buildup" from the end of the video is even way older than modern EDM. I recall it from the 90s as the standard snare buildup, and I think it's even older than that. It mostly started on 8th instead of quarter notes, though. If you're going for a more oldschool sound, it would be a viable choice.

@tru7hhimself Жыл бұрын

as far as i remember "kick buildups" with that pattern were more common back then.

@AutPen38 Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I remember it being in those cheap Ejay sample packs (like Techno Ejay and the stuff by Magix) in the early 2000s and it was considered a cliche even then. "Machine gun" snares (almost always with 909 samples) were great if you needed a quick way to get from a breakdown to the main loop, but they were so overused that they got boring pretty quickly.

@LukaszJarochowski Жыл бұрын

I was going to leave the same comment. The "snare build up" takes me back to the 90s, 96-99. I don't know if I was listening to the "latest" tracks then as I was an American visiting my Polish family in Poland during the summers when I would hear that EDM. I'd visit underground dance parties and hear it spun there. In the 2000s, I later heard comments about how the snare buildup was an unimaginative cliche trope, but it was effective at one point.

@bensch9459 Жыл бұрын

Oscar is absolutely goated with the sauce at teaching these house/techno staple techniques. I love the titled segments on each video. I love his workflow. I use Logic to produce but from the way he teaches, it is very simple to carry these tidbits from Ableton to Logic. No other tutorials on KZfaq come close

@OscarUnderdog Жыл бұрын

Sending you all the love back 😄

@ruisilva9306 Жыл бұрын

I agree with all that. Also love the dancing skills 🙂

@thebeetbandit1732 Жыл бұрын

Oscar you are the Gandalf of electronic drums, a true wizard.

@TedBrownMedia Жыл бұрын

legit learn more things from you than anyone else. also no annoying accent and you have fabulous enthusiastic energy. i feel guilty sometimes watching your videos and know i am getting the info for free however you make it so much easier to learn and i have ADHD so the length of the videos is perfect, so if i have to rewatch several times i can without wandering.

@Beastmode-hk3fj Жыл бұрын

Damn Oscar, I had a hard time finishing this one since I kept rewinding back to the roll and drop at 2:42. What follows is catchy as hell!

@EuphoriaMusic1 Жыл бұрын

😂 Min 4:02 for me

@lmcmulle Жыл бұрын

Oscar, you accomplish in 10-15 minutes what takes others 2-3x as long. Great tight format. and again more wonderful tools for the toolbox. Awesome.

@suckerformimi Жыл бұрын

Loved the deadmau5 masterclass ad quote!!

@mihovil5806 Жыл бұрын

Every video is amazing and so helpful!!!

@kurogawa Жыл бұрын

Your videos makes this a lot of fun!

@hausrat4348 Жыл бұрын

Great video, fabulous sweater!

@DagobertHU Жыл бұрын

after the "rumble techno' video the next step is here... understand the snare roll. Good teacher. I make my own project based on these vids, but the most important - I KNOW what I'm doing and which things have effects for the whole sound. Music became Sound :)

@mathiasholzer7216 Жыл бұрын

❤ thank you to share your enthousiasm with us.

@jl9205 Жыл бұрын

You've a fun guy, Oscar. Your little jokes and dances always crack me up. 🙂

@raymondlesiak Жыл бұрын

you always make production fun which is what it should be. always look forward to ur uploads, thanks Oscar : )

@chema__gonzalez__ Жыл бұрын

As always great stuff! thanks Oscar!

@Funko69 Жыл бұрын

I have always working with samples from old vinyl records and make beats and instrumental hiphop stuff. But im have always been in love in techno and all kinds of electronic music. Now after i have seen your videos i have start to take my first step to make techno, and your videos have helped me alot

@dmorrgameplays Жыл бұрын

sound pretty amazing! thank you again, for this.

@darrend7386 Жыл бұрын

your channel is absolute gold

@cookieintune Жыл бұрын

Always good useful reliable info 👍

@EuphoriaMusic1 Жыл бұрын

Holy shiszkabobs, that low end on your track at min 4:02 💣🤤

@fruitproof115 Жыл бұрын

That's super helpful, thanks! I've heard snare rolls in many tracks and never really nailed the sound, when I tried to recreate it. Those velocity patterns did the trick ;-)

@Secrimsoc Жыл бұрын

Great Teacher! You have helped me improve so much. Thank you.

@camillo8575 Жыл бұрын

I really love when you dance on the groove! :-)

@steven4217 Жыл бұрын

Great video!

@Argh0naut Жыл бұрын

big love for the 909 and big love for you and your video's!

@mentalpressure9234 Жыл бұрын

Thankss bro I needed this a lot 😍

@SuperRingoffire1 Жыл бұрын

Great tip man and great jumper 👌😁☮

@SimeonPilgrim Жыл бұрын

I'm here for the EDM snare build ups - fabs tips, love it!

@aykerrriko Жыл бұрын

Your lessons are every time more interesting and precious! Thank you very much

@OscarUnderdog Жыл бұрын

☺️❤️ thanks!

@hops5121 Жыл бұрын

Oscar rocking that shiny nail polish look!

@ionianechoes Жыл бұрын

If that is a TR909 then Oscar must be 5meters tall

@OscarUnderdog Жыл бұрын

Hahahahahaha yes i surely am, with my normal human-sized roland!

@isotoxin Жыл бұрын

"404 kit not found" - the most musical dad's joke ever what the CS geek like me can understand. :D

@Bittamin Жыл бұрын

I got a little more than excited about this upload. I was tapping on everything so much as a kid, my parents put me in band class when I was 9. Snare was my choice, and I’ve always been a giant fan. Ended up being the single drummer in our schools marching band at one point, and snare rolls and buzzrolls with crazy stuff was all I would do 😂 I couldn’t help myself from being the center of attention even when we performed lol.

@OscarUnderdog Жыл бұрын

Hahaaaa thats a superpower 😄😄😄 did you manage to continue that spirit in your electronic music??

@Bittamin Жыл бұрын

@@OscarUnderdog I’ve been wishing I had a midi mesh pad to record snare rolls with so much 😭😭 I do my best to program drums of course but I definitely do miss having a snare on me! Maybe one day 😎😎

@Joe-Frost 10 ай бұрын

MY GUY, I'll have to link you to a track I'm working on. You helped me figure a lot of it out!

@B0K1T0 Жыл бұрын

There is no (machine) snare more satisfying than the 909 one 😄 I have a Roland drum kit which of course has 808 & 909 presets and I'm always switching back and forth when I'm in the mood for some weirder stuff that doesn't have to sound like a real drum kit :P Furthermore thanks again for the good stuff ♥ I've learned so much from your videos and love your vibe. Always looking forward to the next one.

@OscarUnderdog Жыл бұрын

😁 cheers huib!

@MattG1027 Жыл бұрын

Great content as always. Dancing in the background of the session was a nice touch :D

@MattG1027 Жыл бұрын

@Underdog Electronic Music School , is this a scammer?

@Howwi Жыл бұрын

That dancing clip in the background though. Tasty ^_^

@superblizard896 Жыл бұрын

Love that preview of the new FtS track. Got such a delicate minimal feel to it; the bass is complementing the drums so well. Would sit perfect in a Solomun set ♥

@turquoisecapricorn Жыл бұрын

I said to myself who is the lady in the beginning of your video twisting the knobs? It was you! I was thinking why does he not talk of building up the snare to a powerful release? Than you came up with "Cardinal Sin" haha. I make trance related music, before I used it more in my tracks such a snare build up, but I will still make tracks with such a snare build up. I follow your videos. You do it very well. Keep on going.I will check your projects Torc and Face The Sun. greetz from Tirlemont Jason

@catalinbanica8570 Жыл бұрын

“Cardinal Sin of EDM right here” 😂 deadmau5 would agree

@willievaughn6474 Жыл бұрын

Awesome thank you

@raptor.1 11 ай бұрын

I have watched this video around 5 times and it's the first that i notice your 404 not found joke lmao you are a fucking genius

@thelateraledge Жыл бұрын

I like to have the snare hits alternate between left then right pan, starting in the middle with 0 pan then gradually swinging harder left and right up until the last 4 snare hits which I set back to 0 so they are dead center. I don't tend to go full hard pan left and right but maybe something a little more moderate. Gives them an interesting widening and then collapsing feeling before the drop.

@laschmaada Жыл бұрын

That's 🔥...

@Sportkids. Жыл бұрын

You are a kick ass teacher! I love the knowledge!!! Hrespek! 👏👏.👏.👏.👏.👏👏.🪘

@daryngoldsbrough Жыл бұрын

The love!

@cassettedisco6954 Жыл бұрын

Gracias saludos desde México 🇲🇽❤️

@banksideleopards2791 Жыл бұрын

Thank's M8 for this tuto, transitions always been kind of blur to me. But not anymore!

@chrisgilkes1687 Жыл бұрын

Snare rushes are always deadly serious 😂

@lionheartglass Жыл бұрын

The best quality

@Jezz_Mcfly 11 ай бұрын

Genius ! Thank you so much - I love it when I 'like' a video a few seconds in, because I know it's going to tell me what I want to know ✌❤🎶 Edit: Now that I've finished wacthing - In answer to your terminology "Snare Roll / Snare Buildup" It was a Snare Roll I wanted but searched for both - So I got 2 for 1 - Snare build up also !!! Awesome. Love the Channel Name too.

@arneanders6306 Жыл бұрын

some love 💝

@techno6106 Жыл бұрын

Reakky appreciate the effort you put into these video's! They're a bit too slow for me personally but I can really see this helping beginning producers!

@rabieaalshikkador512 Жыл бұрын

Watching you dancing on the music you are making is something 😂❤

@norko7422 Жыл бұрын

Nice Nails, man

@FreddyVortex Жыл бұрын

10:45 don’t do THiS ! 😆 I love this kind of EDM way like this actually 🙏 Thx for theses precious tips Oscar, really 👍

@andycordy5190 Жыл бұрын

Isn't it weird how something we might once have avoided as a trademark of something else or somone else can drop into a different context and just work. Like taking a classic and totally reworking it in a radically different way. The plug-in takes away so many of the limitations of drum machine programming. Ok the sounds just become another available voice but getting rid of the buttons is liberating.

@buzzandjim4265 Жыл бұрын

Cool thsnks

@hoagy_ytfc Жыл бұрын

I really know nothing about fashion, and even if I did know anything it's not often right to comment about it, but.... ... that jumper you're wearing in this video is amazing!

@OscarUnderdog Жыл бұрын

😄🙌

@8-BitHeart79 Жыл бұрын

Prior to my even knowing what EDM was, I preferred the buildup. I loved creating them on my electribes and my mc303. Of course I didn't have all the pumping effects but I could use reverb or delay and just cut the snare half a bar short for a splash effect. It was good fun... and this was back in 99- 2005 when EDM was not even a big thing. You could find the build ups in a lot of industrial and EBM music as I was a Goth kid... lol

@nasound2473 Жыл бұрын

Also leaving a comment to show some love

@Struktur.d.M Жыл бұрын

love

@eurosat7 Жыл бұрын

I like the cardinal sin - I'm that age :D

@felipebarreto3293 Жыл бұрын

Hey Oscar! Can you make a more detailed tutorial about drum rolls? I would love to see a descontruction of of different types of drum rollls, from the oldschool goa trance rolls to the splashy modern techno ones, or even the mix of both. It would ne nice to see how you create texture with them.

@Chi_Mecha Жыл бұрын

I'm an experimental hitech psy producer, and I find those EDM snare build-up (or kick build-up) parts do work for me. It's often a matter of adding the right fx, or even just playing with the pattern a bit to make the beat drop more unexpectedly.

@alexhatzis44 Жыл бұрын

Love you

@DJVasC Жыл бұрын

Again a great instruction. But that Kick: I love it. Can you tell a little bit more about it? Thanks in advance 🙏

@ronkine17 Жыл бұрын

💙!

@s4lome792 Жыл бұрын

Awesome as always! I'd have two questions: 1) where can I buy the sweater :D 2) in the bass line following the build up, there is some super groovy perc hit or something. Is that a syncopated tom or something in the like? Been wondering how to get something like that for ages

@OscarUnderdog Жыл бұрын

Yeeeep 808 ish toms!

@Papopiringa Жыл бұрын

@@OscarUnderdog What about the sweater?

@lisotunali3807 Жыл бұрын

Damn, that techno groove was sick!! Are you planning on finishing that?

@orangecoloredsky3486 Жыл бұрын

One of the side effects to working with electronic music is your hands start to become the hands of an automaton. It will gradually silver the nails and eventually the whole hand.

@OscarUnderdog Жыл бұрын

True story

@AmpDecay Жыл бұрын

909 snare is definitely better IMO and I always do the EDM snare build up, its so good :D

@Tyblubearboy Жыл бұрын

Yes OV... I would like a video for some tips on how to get my groove on the same as you please :D

@OscarUnderdog Жыл бұрын

Its all in the hips 😆

@maxwellwaltzer6537 Ай бұрын

Thanks very much for this, Even though i only wanted the EDM build up :)

@wearekloud Жыл бұрын

I love you.

@OscarUnderdog Жыл бұрын

Love you right back! 😁❤️

@stasasavoidu2255 Жыл бұрын

danke

@colin-vandervoort Жыл бұрын

I’m engaged!

@pumptactics Жыл бұрын

I wish I could dance like this to my beats 😅😇

@swOOOp66 Жыл бұрын

❤

@sumitromandal6173 Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much sir,for this informative video, really means a lot,Can you make a video on Progressive Uplifting Trance or House music? It would mean a lot...Have a nice day sir ...peace ✌️

@nippodj9383 Жыл бұрын

Même sans synthe le tr1ck fonctionne plutôt bien je trouve Edm build up devrait aussi marche avec 1 automation sur arpegiator ou beat repeat je pense

@jinartamusic6734 Жыл бұрын

Hello there. I am using caustic 3 for six years now. I wish more people would talk about this app. It's still available on pc and you can download it and try. I am using mostly mobile version. If you could download it and waste a bit of time on it and see if this app is for serious production or not . That would be helpful for many people that I know. Cheers

@harryhallerproject Жыл бұрын

Have you ever release the actual song? it sounds quite cool!

@Jeraaz Жыл бұрын

Lol @ 7:35 ''404 kit not found''

@andbe Жыл бұрын

i like the sweater dude, where did you buy it from??

@findingwondrlnd 9 ай бұрын

Seems like a lot of clicking. Drag in an arpeggiator, and automate the steps and velocities. Throw on a filter and automate filter fx. Assign some macros and "jam in" a snare roll with your controller. Macro the transposition for pitch fx. Macro the envelopes to adjust attack and release. You can also throw in some beat repeat to glitch it up a bit. Group it in a rack and save it for use in future projects.

@dagvidarsigvartson6291 Жыл бұрын

Nails look great hehe. Metalic green?

@tunerr1 Жыл бұрын

when will you launch your dancing course? :D Amazing video as usual!

@OscarUnderdog Жыл бұрын

💃 😄

@marcellkovacs5452 Жыл бұрын

10:25 I think it highly depends on the execution, for example listen to Phantoms can't hang by deadmau5, that track sounds like it's making fun of the bigroom stuff at the time (e.g. Martin Garrix - Animals), but the end result is a masterpiece (the whole album) IMO.

@Capo98y Жыл бұрын

Can you make a video on how to make other types of (buildups) without using snare rolls? Are there different ways of making build-ups?

@Skelldr Жыл бұрын

What’s the name of the first song???? It’s amazing

@DJeMo Жыл бұрын

Frequency slaves are us, love you

@mech14Nine Жыл бұрын

Never a fan of Snare rolls in electronic however this will make me reconsider!:) Thanks Oscar!

@B0K1T0 Жыл бұрын

Yeah to be honest I had more the association with them with what he showed as the forbidden tip around 8:55 🤣

@grachhhh Жыл бұрын

Cool nails btw!

@dante7228 Жыл бұрын

I guess the snare build up is still very common in psy trance and subgenres. But I have to confess I'm not up to date with most contemporary music releases...