Redrum: Mixing up styles and kits

So at this point, you've started to get a solid feel for how to put a beat together. The goal for today is to get really familiar with the different drum kits available in Reason and to start to see how you can use different types of sounds to make different styles of beats.

Your assignment today is to make three different drum beats in the following styles:

- Hard (think hip-hop, slaps, or rock) - try looking in Abstract HipHop, Electronic, Hardcore, Hip Hop, Heavy, or Rock folders. Glitch also has some cool sounds.
- Danceable (think techno or club music - like 94.9 style) - try looking in Electronic, House, RnB or Techno.
- Smooth (think jazzy or R&B) - try Brush Kits, Dub Kits, or Tight Kits

1. Open Reason and create a new session (File>New)
2. Create three Redrum drum machines.
3. Load a different drum kit into each one
4. Make a different beat on each Redrum. (Remember that you can turn each Redrum on/off by clicking on the Run button.)


Couple things to think about:

• What kinds of sounds do you hear in different styles of music? Do you hear booming bass in jazz?
  
• A tempo that is good for one style of beat might not be good for another style. Try changing the tempo when you work with each Redrum. Which is usually faster, a hip hop song or a dance song?
• Try pressing the Shuffle button and see how that affects the feel of the beat.