Tips for drumstep?

[Bledbox]

reso's labelled his latest wip 'drumstep', im not really a fan of the genre but this tune is pretty epic

in my opinion, his previous drumstep called "technetium" is better, but this is decent also.

And my WIP drumstep style track. I know, its little bit cheesy but its intended.
Soundcloud

is that a joke? Technetium is dubstep...

[Matthew-B]

is that a joke? Technetium is dubstep...

Yes, u are right. Now I listening it and agree with u. But its little faster than most dubsteps : ).

[Bledbox]

Pretty sure it's 140bpm

This whole argument gets on my tits, I myself have made drumstep but class it as dnb and nothing more

[theedman]

Yeah Technetium is deffo 140, just sounds alot faster coz reso is a badmannnnn, especially the second drop

[jaydot]

Soundcloud

My first attempt at the genre, dunno if I got the drums exactly right but still...

[narcissus]

in my mind, i always classify it as "half time"

[shaneynclan]

i don't get this at all.
so drumstep = brostep which kinda = dubstep?
can someone break this shit down for me please.

[Crosby]

Yeah Technetium is deffo 140

Its 100bpm, then switches to 140 after 'finishhh him'

[Lethargik]

i don't get this at all.
so drumstep = brostep which kinda = dubstep?
can someone break this shit down for me please.

that makes no sense.......

deadly summed up pretty well.

IMO dnb and dubstep were already sharing their sounds before someone coined the term drum step. If you listen to reso's tunes his dubstep and dnb are pretty similar, just one is half time at 140 and the other is at 174 with a 2 snares every bar. Even works for liquid tunes aswell!

not all 'drumstep' is jumpup


Its all fcuking ukf and the youtube crew's fault

[ResetTheAtari]

Triple up your kicks, echo heavy snares, no space in your patterns

[Bledbox]

Its all fcuking ukf and the youtube crew's fault

i blame rusko. theres a vid of him playing I need killers somewhere, he pulls the track back and goes like 'WHOOOAAAAAA ITS NOT DUBSTEP, ITS NOT DRUMNBASS...WTF IS IT??!?!?!'

[jaydot]

One thing I know it's harder to dance to than even dubstep. You're sort of jiggling your limbs but you're not.

[BananaBomber]

yh technetium is 100bpm and does not change to 140 but the drums and bass are ermm i cant even think of a word lolz made to sound 140 haha that was pathetic

[Wrigzilla]

Basically you'd make a drum and bass style beat but at half tempo. I can't be arsed to go into detail about doing beats dnb style when this video pretty much covers it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYMC57ldgE4

[hasezwei]

[rant]
guys, i know i'm going to sound like a dick but (in my opinion) YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG.

if you already have to call it DRUMstep then why do you totally forget the percussion? you can't just make a 172 bpm KICK x SNARE x beat with some pussy hi-hats you barely notice playing in the background, thats just sped-up wobbly dubstep!
theres a reason tunes like "i need killers" feel so fast even with half-timed drums, you've got to keep everything busy. fill in the high frequencies with lots of pitched-up breakbeats or cymbals or whatever, make it all feel insanely (or well, 17-180bpm) fast. the only halftimed thing's the snare and maybe the kick, and after you have finished your kickass beats you can go and add all those funny wobbles that clipz did years ago

i mean check this one, it's not much of a difference to what i've heard here. just a bit more percussion and boom, it feels faster
take away half of the snares after the second drop and there you go, drumstep.


breakbeats are the key, drumstep still is drum n bass after all.

[/rant]

okay, sorry if i might've pissed you off. this is meant as constructive criticism, really.
(and in case i did step on your toes just note that i haven't finished a single tune yet, so who am i right? )

[deadly_habit]

[Crosby]

yh technetium is 100bpm and does not change to 140 but the drums and bass are ermm i cant even think of a word lolz made to sound 140 haha that was pathetic

Are you sure? use a bpm tapper, ive looked twice and im sure it does..

[narcissus]

would like to hear some chilled out, subby n dubby 'drumstep'...

hmm... gonna try that later when i get home

[skimpi]

does it really matter what the beat is like, theres no point asking how you should do your drums to make a drumstep tune, you might aswell ask someone to make the tune for you. if it has to be 'drumstep' set the tempo to 165-180 bpm and then do whatever you like with the beat. i mean if it has to stick in the strict boundaries of drumstep then have you beat with a half time feel (doesnt have to have a snare on every third beat), and then make the main bulk of your melodic content normal time, actually i dunno if you would even need to do that.

[krytikal]

would like to hear some chilled out, subby n dubby 'drumstep'...