Watch as Jonny Miller (Sonarpilot Audio) shows you how to create a syncopated Juke style drum pattern using Ableton Live’s 808 Classic kit.

This post was originally published in DJ Magazine’s free online edition DJ Weekly issue 86

The sound of Booty Bass and Ghetto House has made its mark on the underground US club scene for many years now but its most recent offshoot sound ‘Juke’ has breathed new life to the sound and taken it truly global. The lo-fi, 150 BPM rhythms of Juke have a skippy, disjointed feel the accompanying street dance style known as Footwork takes the concept of a dance circle to new limits.

Juke has been most recently been adopted by dubstep and bass music aficionado’s in the UK; Ramadanman, Mark Pritchard and Addison Groove being just a few names who have caught the Juke bug and worked the sound into their bass heavy productions.

In this week’s tutorial (above) Jonny shows you how to programme some distinctly Footwork flavoured beats and how a simple looping vocal sample can add even more Juke characteristics to your track. He is using the 808 Classic kit that comes with Ableton Live’s Drum Rack plus a vocal sample inside Simpler.

Watch more free tutorials on Point Blank’s sample course page.

—————————————————————————————————————————————————-

Tech Review – App of the week 

Name: SampleTank V 1.1 for iPad / iPhone / iPod Touch

Developer: IK Multimedia

Price: £13.99

A major update of this powerful sound and groove workstation means it is now accessible on both iPad and iPhone. The number of instruments has been boosted to 136 with hundreds more available via in-app purchases (2.5GB in total!), and over 1,000 patterns to trigger the sounds. Also new is the ability to put together whole songs (albeit fairly basic ones) on the go with the in-built 4-track MIDI recorder. Recording your own grooves is great fun on the assignable drum pad interface and other features include a full range of in-built effects, master reverb, quantize, export to audio, and scale presets on the dual level keyboard.

The free app is well worth downloading to trial the interface but the SampleTank’s real strength lies in the huge quantity and quality of the samples in the paid for version. Plus with the iRig MIDI interface enabling easy and reliable connection to a MIDI controller, this is a genuine option for live performances. 9/10

Find out more info and buy SampleTank here

Keep up to date with all of the Point Blank news, tutorials and giveaways by subscribing to us on Youtube, Facebook and Twitter … and if you have something to say about this post,start the conversation with a comment below. Thanks!

808, 808 drums, Ableton, ableton course, ableton live, ableton tutorial, booty house, chicago, featured, footwork, free, ghetto tech, How to, jonny miller, juke, music production, music production course, music production courses, point blank, video tutorial