When i first started making my second project, I knew it was going to be a lot of fun because on this project, we were able to use the chopping and slayer tools. However, before I could start using them, I had to get a nice drum beat. I wanted this beat to have a country sound. That didnt really happen. To be honest, I dont know how my beat happened..it just did. After my drum beat was made, i started putting in some random notes on the slayer. After I had a nice mixture, i used a really cool tool called the chopper. In seconds I had an amazing sounding riff that went really well with my drums. Although it wasnt country, I liked it and decided it was good. After that, I did the exact same thing with the chopper. Except this time i didnt use random notes..I took the notes that were in my first pattern and just mixed them up a bit. Then once again I used the chopp tool and it was a success. Not only did I have another pattern, but there was just enough of the first one in it, that it sounded really good. I decided that during the second pattern I would take out the drums. This made it so you could really hear the second beat and that is what I wanted. Finally I threw in the first beat again and played it through. It made a cool little riff and I thought it was perfect for my second project. So even though it wasnt country, I think it came out fine. Hope you like it!!

When I first started making this drum loop, I was more challenged then I thought I would be. I really wasnt going for any particular sound. Just something that wouldnt get boring and you could listen to throughout the course of a song. I started with a simple kick drum every four steps. I then started to fool around with different cymbals, claps, and other drums to add in with the kick drum. I decided to go with one simple clap on the third step. I was aginst more claps because i didnt want my loop to sound like just a buch of claps. I also decided to go with a high hat on the first step so that the first beat would have a little more power to it. Finally I added a crash symb at every four beats and I loved the sound I got. After making a contrasting pattern, I thought I was done. I was wrong. When I listened to my contrasting pattern, it contrasted a little too much making the loop sound very choppy. My contrasting pattern consists of a snare drum every step and once again the simple kick drum every four steps. In my opinion this gives it a little pop to the beat and makes it better. After a little bit longer of messing around with various cymbals, claps, and other sounds, I ended up adding just one simple clap on the third step and a crash symbal on the first one. This made it so you could hear some of the first pattern within the second one. I finally had a good contrasting pattern. Now i was done, and ready to post it on my blog.