(While you’re at it, why not click the other buttons displayed in the picture just to teach yourself about what else FL Studio does.)Ĭlick the “view playlist” button to view the playlist. You now have the patterns “Whatever you want” and “Pattern 2.” Now place them both into the “playlist.” Find the “view playlist” link right here: Step 5: Adding Your Drums To The Playlist Put whatever you want in that pattern, “Pattern 2.” Here’s what I put for mine: Hover over the “PAT” display (it says “1”), left-click, and move your mouse up so the number changes from 1 to 2. Now you have made the first drum beat pattern “Whatever you want”, it’s time to make the second pattern. In this case, we will actually be naming it “Whatever you want”: Once you click the “Rename” option, you can name your drum pattern whatever you want. To rename your drum pattern, hover your mouse over Pattern 1 and left-click. Once you click SONG, you are playing the entire song, or project… which we will get to. When you click PAT, you are playing the pattern you created, nothing else. To the left of the play button, you should see PAT and SONG. You can also change the tempo by hovering your mouse over the “140” tempo displayer, holding down the left mouse button and scrolling up to speed your tempo and scrolling down to slow it. Play back your sequence by pressing “Play” (or hitting the spacebar). You should see play, stop, and record buttons that look like this: If you want to hear how your beat sounds, go to the top toolbar. You can compose your beat how you want, but the below picture shows you the beat I made: This could be changed, but like drum sounds, we won’t discuss that in this tutorial. This is to stick to a 4/4 time signature. You should see a pattern on this sequencer. We will experiment with adding drum sounds, so you understand how to compose a basic drumbeat. We will not discuss that with this tutorial. The drum sounds in this sequencer were built in with FL Studio, but you can change them. In this sequencer, you have four basic sounds for drums: kick, clap, hat, and snare. On this screen, you should see the FL Studio Pattern Sequencer: Once you clicked that small icon, you should see this: If you don’t have FL Studio, you can download a trial version here. If you already have FL Studio installed, click on the icon that looks like this: Step 1: Open FL Studio and Create a New Track Today we’ll be covering the very basics of producing two different drum beats, and adding those beats to your track.

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