4 steps to make funky hihats like Tale of Us or Maceo Plex

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Underdog Electronic Music School

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In this video we make funky, syncopated hihats in Ableton Live. You'll recognise this style of hihats from artsits like Tale of Us, Maceo Plex, Recondite, Agents of Time, all those deep house/deep techno artists.

We show the secret sauce behind such a hihat line, which comes down to:
Creating a 16th note hihat pattern using whitenoise
Applying simple groove to it
Applying "funky" groove to it
Setting up macro controls to control its expression

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Contents:
0:00 Intro
2:07 Step 1: 16th note white noise hihat
6:00 Step 2: Applying a simple groove
9:45 Step 3: A funky groove
11:20 Step 4: Macros for expression
14:45 Wrapup and conclusion
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