Who doesn’t love a fat bass-line in a Drum and Bass tune? It can be deep and sit in the background of a tune adding texture and depth or it can be in your face and intense, ruling the track like a freight train. Here’s some good examples of drum and bass percussion So understanding what percussions compliment each other and which ones jar is one of the most important parts of learning to DJ with Drum and Bass. It can also be the one element of your mix that messes everything up. The percussion can often help your mixes slip seamlessly between tunes if you pick just the right tracks to mix. Chopping and changing between two tracks quickly to create your own percussion patterns (more on that later). So you can make good use of multiple elements of the percussion in your DJ mixes. Its presence or absence is what creates the breaks and intense sounds while the off-beat kick drums are what give Drum and Bass its fast rhythmic feel. Running around 180 beats per minute, the percussive elements create a texture that is the bed of any Drum and Bass track. Percussionĭrum and Bass would be nothing without the intricate percussion patterns. Let’s go through each of these to see how you can mix them perfectly.
Working seamlessly from one tune to another or chopping and changing between tracks to create your own unique DJing style. These layers help create the intense, melodic and rhythmic sounds of Drum and Bass.īecause they’re present in most tracks you can use some or all of them to create amazing mixes. Almost every Drum and Bass tune can be broken down in to a number of layers.
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