How to Play Keyboard Drums - MIDI Drum Tutorial

www.revolutionaudio.ca - A quick and very basic tutorial on how to play drums on a keyboard or midi controller using the general MIDI drum layout. Come to Revolution Audio Canada to buy all your home recording gear - controllers, software, interfaces and microphones.

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this is jason johnson a revolution audio
. CA coming at you with a keyboard
drumming tutorial this is just a basic
tutorial to show you where to find the
general midi drums on a basic keyboard
will start here with c1 this is where
your kick drum is on a 76 key keyboard
this will be the first see on the far
left on an 88 key keyboard this would be
your second see on the smaller keyboard
that I have I have to use the octave
button take me down to see one with your
kick drum and that's the foundation of
your drum beat
next we have our snares left and right
left and right stairs so that rolls
sound more realistic so it sounds more
like that there's two sticks being hit
on the snare ok next most important
parts of the keyboard drum mapping or
the hi-hats here we have closed hi-hat
pedal hi-hat open high then you'll
notice that when the open hi-hat is open
you can hit another one of the hi-hats
and actually closed so it makes a very
creative and sound more realistic that
way
ok so we have to pick their high hats
and then tom starting from the hi Tom up
here on see going down to the lower to
the floor tongue on the f
and then the last things are going to
show you are the two symbols over here
simple ride cymbal crashes rationality
and bars or measures and ride cymbals
are used a lot of that kind of drives to
let's put a small drum beat together
starting with the kick snare hi-hat big
finish
there you go to metod tutorial on
keyboard drumming from revolution audio
. CA come to us for all your home
recording needs including training as
well as these wonderful midi keyboards
and all the software you need to do
keyboard drumming at home