In this tutorial you will learn how to make snare rolls in FL studio. Creating snare rolls is very important to add variation to your beats. They can be used to create transitions between parts of the beat and create a buildup effect to the next section of the beat. Snare rolls typically occur near the end of a bar but can be used in other sections of your beat if you choose.
In order to make snare rolls interesting, there are a couple things that you should do. One important thing you can do is chop up the hits so that each hit is not the same length. This will give your snare rolls a speeding up or slowing down effect.
Another important element of the snare roll is breaking up the pattern and leaving some spaces between pants to create dynamic combinations of snare rolls. A lot of producers just create snare hits that hit on every beat and it doesn’t really add much to the snare roll. Creating slightly more complex patterns by using gaps between them will make them much more unique and sound more like a real drummer.
The next thing you should consider is creating pitched snare rolls. This type of snare roll typically descends in pitch as the fill plays. This can create a very nice effect on the snare and I really like to use this technique when transitioning between sections of beat.
In the tutorial above you will see exactly how this process is completed. Snare rolls are not overly complicated and can really add a lot to your beats. Follow this tutorial and you will be on your way to making great sounding fills starting now.
In the tutorial above you will see exactly how this process is completed. Snare rolls are not overly complicated and can really add a lot to your beats. Follow this tutorial and you will be on your way to making great sounding fills starting now.
6 Step Example :
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Launch Ableton Live or FL Studio and start a new project by selecting, "New Project" from the file menu. Sift through your sample library to find a good one-hit snare drum sample. If you don't have one, a quick search online will reveal a multitude of free drum samples for download.
Load your drum sample into the built-in sampler. If you're using Ableton Live, create a new MIDI track by dragging the "Simpler" instrument into the "Tracks" window, then drag the desired snare sample into the "Simpler" instrument window at the bottom-left of the screen. In FL Studio, drag the snare sample into the sequencer window beneath the default track names.
Open the piano roll, which is a virtual piano that you use to change the pitch of your sample. In Ableton Live, double-click in the first empty clip space under your snare sample "Simpler" track. The piano roll appears at the bottom-right of the screen. In FL Studio, right-click on the snare sample you dragged into the sequencer window and select, "Open Piano Roll" to display the piano roll.
Begin sequencing a basic snare roll to create a down-south roll. Left-click in the piano roll next to the key marked "C3" to create MIDI events, which will play your snare sound. Listen to a few of your favorite hip-hop tracks for inspiration. Arrange your snare hits according to the beat grid shown in the piano roll window. Press, "Play" to listen to your basic snare roll.
Turn your snare roll into a down-south roll by moving the MIDI events you created on the key "C3" to other, lower keys on the virtual piano. Drag the events up and down the piano using your mouse. The program automatically changes the pitch of the sound. Arrange the snare hits in descending order so that each event is on a lower key than the one previous.
Press, "Play" to listen to your down-south roll. It will have the same rhythm and structure as the basic snare roll you created, but the sound will get lower and lower as it plays. Build your beat around this roll, or use this method to inject the down-south roll into any previously created beat.
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