I have been studying the drums recently.

I found a very cool drummers blog by some LA session drummer who pumps out a drum loop a day and talks about drumming technique in general. Has really helped scope out the head space of drumming theory for me, and I constantly keep checking back so I’m always thinkging about it.

Things I have learn for composition:

• Changing the base drum sound without it seeming like a different track all of a sudden.
• Really can’t have more than one bass drum sound (perhaps if one was raddically different, say a techno sound and one was a normal kit sound ?).
• Its nice to mix constant synth drum backbeat with a more organic sampled drum sound over the top of it, perhaps just playing the high drum sounds.
• The action or character in a dance track is all in the top part of the drums, bass alone is boring and the high parts should work with the melody.

Thats all I cn think of right now.