If you’re looking for detailed info about programming beats for various electronic styles, you should check out the “Beat Dissected” section of Attach Magazine. Very good info, easy to follow and useful for all the DAWs out there. As for now (08/2014) they have tutorials on the following styles:
- Polished House
- Cosmic Nu-Disco
- Soulful Deep House
- Belleville Techno
- Raw French House
- Motor City Techno
- Up-Front Garage
- 21th Century Chigago House
- West Coast Hip-Hop
- Sub Zero Minimal Techno
- 80s-Style Chicago House
- Rough House
- Maniac Ghetto House
- Jackin’ House
- Found Sound 2-Step
- Dirty Indi-Dance
- 90s Jersey House
- Raw Drum & Bass
- Chillout: Raw Strip-Hop
- Upbeat Chillwave
- Nu-Disco: Live Groove
- Dusted Deep House
- Dark Berlin Techno
- Main Room House
- Organic Tech-House
- Raw Dance-Punk
- Deep Afro House
- Incessant Drum & Bass
- Rolling Deep House
- Chillout: Lounge Bed
If you’re able to tell all these styles apart by ear – or even “only” the house styles: Big respect from my side. Maybe you can explain to me why I should care about the differences 😉
-mE
productivemonkey 