The hihat and high percussion in your music is the energy infrastructure of your track: it's super important to get right, but can't be too interesting or it will distract from the lead elements. How do we program good hihats? How do we make them sound alive?

This tutorial shows concepts that apply in all different DAWs as long as you have a sampler plugin. I'll be working in Ableton Live 11, myself.

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Contents:
0:00 Get your education pants on
0:57 The natural upbeat of music production
2:11 The four levels
2:57 Level one, the programming
4:23 Syncopation
6:53 A B A C
7:43 Level two, sound design
9:12 The three tools of hihat sound design
9:24 The ADSR
10:42 LFO - time
13:01 EQ
14:42 Transient designer
15:59 Level three, the group design
20:02 Level four, too much fun