I'd say coming up with melodies would be my strength and coming up with drum beats would be a HUGE weakness. I struggle with it a lot, as someone who is a beginner. My problem is I just literally can't think of anything (I only know one extremely basic pattern). Nothing plays in my head when I think of drums to go along. I just don't know how to create drum beats. With melodies, they just play in my head whereas with drums, nothing. I always hear tracks even from beginners with great drum beats/patterns etc whereas I couldn't do that to save my life haha. Any tips on how to overcome this would be great. This is something that prevents me from moving forward in creating music because I get stuck on this. Even if I create something really basic, I don't know how or when to vary it, so it sounds really boring and overly generic. Any advice would be much appreciated!
Submitted April 02, 2018 at 06:03PM by Smiling_Kiwi https://www.reddit.com/r/edmproduction/comments/895bqy/im_cant_come_up_with_drum_beatspatterns_tipsadvice/?utm_source=ifttt