Tip: doubling your drum hits

[zvon]

Hi everyone,

Here's a basic tip to enhance drum parts. I'm sure a lot of you already know this, I'm posting it for the others.

Try doubling your drum parts with different sounds, this can enhance their sound and even give them a different feel. For the 2 audio examples below, I've used an excellent acoustic kit from the RMIV and our own Prepared Rhodes (excellent for adding an unusual touch).

Example 1: basic pattern, plays 3 times straight and then 3 times doubled.
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Example 2: complex pattern from the Groove Monkey lib, plays twice straight then twice doubled. The snare and the hats are not doubled.
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When using this technique, anything goes. You can double some of the hits or all the hits, double with similar sounds or completely different sounds, etc.

Any sound may work but the Prepared Rhodes and our electronic Drums/percussions kits are very well suited on their own or for doubling other percussive hits.

Let me know if this tip and the examples are useful for you.

Thanks