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A good drum track starts with the bass drum – find out here how to make sure yours kicks ass

Before you start your digital drumming journey, let’s take a tour of the instrument it’s all about…

Use tuned toms in your minimal tunes

Let's make a minimal kick groove

Here's how to keep a sparsely-populated track interesting

Let’s use samples to build a classic minimal house-style drum pattern

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Create a bass with frequency modulation

Synthesis is one of the quickest and, potentially, easiest methods of creating awesome bass sounds from scratch. Here’s how it’s done…