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I've been playing around with the moombahton sound a little bit but I can't seem to fully grasp the drums. Can anyone shed some light on some standard kick and snare placements?

Off the top of my head, have you tried taking a short (16 bar-ish) loop of a Moombahton track you like, looping it in something like Audacity, then slowing it right down. Zoom in on the waveform (I recommend using the intro of a track for this), and you'll be able to see the different hits and hear them at a much slower tempo. Then simple try and recreate it in your DAW.

Alternatively, bearing in mind Moombahton is basically Dutch House down at about 108bpm (give or take a few tweaks, obv), then maybe a Dutch House programming tutorial on YouTube might be a good starting point;



You can then adapt it down to a slower BPM, and make any necessary changes. Apologies, video is FL specific.

Thanks I totally figured it out finally thanks to your help!

kick on 1 snare on 3

take a roska tune and pitch it down, instant moombahton edit

skimpi wrote:kick on 1 snare on 3

Noooooooo. Kicks always go on 8

skyhigh wrote:Thanks I totally figured it out finally thanks to your help!

I don't think I put my snare on 3 or 8, lol.

skyhigh wrote:I don't think I put my snare on 3 or 8, lol.

im afraid you aint made moombahton then, i dont care what it sounds like, even if it does sound like moombahton, it aint, cos you havent stuck to the strict rules of snare on 3 and 8!

skimpi wrote:

skyhigh wrote:I don't think I put my snare on 3 or 8, lol.

im afraid you aint made moombahton then, i dont care what it sounds like, even if it does sound like moombahton, it aint, cos you havent stuck to the strict rules of snare on 3 and 8!

I thought they were suppost to be on 4 and 7???

So it's just the ubiquitous latin groove?

lol yup. what i thought when i first heard moombah was.... "oh great... somebody electro-ized reggaeton ... i really hope this doesn't get big"

Fuck you Dave Nada

If you want to know about how the drum rhythm is for Moombahton and the patterns, Listen to something like
Skrillex - Reptile OR Knife Party - Zoology.

Reamz wrote:Fuck you Dave Nada

haha

Its actually snares on the offbeat, where you'd normally put the hi hat in house/techno/trance etc. The only difference I heard (I didnt really listen to too much I just listened to a couple tunes and ive heard a lot of reggaeton/Major Lazer), is that the first snare is swung right before the second kick. Heres what I got

https://dl-web.dropbox.com/get/Public/m ... w=9d2884ba

and heres what it looks like

https://dl-web.dropbox.com/get/Public/S ... w=d39781de


Now if i were to actually make a tuine like that, obviously i would use a different kick to get that house sound, but i hear a lot of that tight acoustic snare in the genre as it is, so i kept it with that

check the tune in my sig for my recently updated (just now) moombahton

only a matter of time before us white folks cannibalized all our club music and descended upon that of the latinos ;p

jk.. btw i like the groove in your track, seems that you have the general idea down. more syncopated percussion, imho, would do wonders

hell yeah i dont really even know what syncopated percussion is? ive researched it before but I guess i never really figured it out. any tips??

For the bouncy kickpattern, I usually go with a long subkick on the 4ths, and some wellplaced, snappy kicks on the halfbeats.
Just my two cents:)