► Heat Waves Guided Listening Template (Completed): https://bit.ly/gblcgbpultc

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Transcript:

Let’s use this knowledge to create our drum groove using the “Create a drum groove” tutorial. We’ll do this one together.

Now it’s time to audition some drums. The cool thing about using smart drums is that you can just audition until you’re satisfied. You're not committing anything to tape. So at this point you probably just are talking about well let’s just drag that bass drum around until it feels good and well let's try a different drum kit too.

I think to really nail this down we need to keep coming back to the guided listening template and ask ourselves “do i have semi-quaver hi-hats”, “Do i have a snare/claps on the back beat”, “Do i have a bass drum”, “Is it quiet?”. This can really help the students evaluate how they're going with being inspired by heat waves.

So when you've worked out the sound and you’ve arranged the bass drum, snare/clap , and hi hat in a way that is inspired by Heat Waves you just press record and it just prints it onto the track.

Alright we gotta beat. What we find happens quite a bit is that the ruler cursor will be anywhere along the ruler and so a key button is the one next to the play one that takes you back to the top of the piece or the section. It’s important to encourage the students to hit that before the red button so that they know where they’re going to be recording from. Another key one is the undo button! Now it’s your turn to create a drum groove using smart drums.