Melodics has teamed up with manufacturers of many of the major pad controller brands, and will soon be offering additional exclusive content to owners of select controllers from Ableton, Akai, IK Multimedia, Korg, Novation, Numark, Pioneer DJ, Reloop and more. There are parts of my sets that I really want to add cue drumming to, but I need to practice in the studio before I’m ready to bring it live. World renowned DJ and producer Gaslamp Killer says: “I’m going to use Melodics to help me prepare for live shows. I can't wait to get to work making a course for these guys!'Įven the pros are using Melodics to hone their skills. Melodics is a fantastic format for artists and teachers to create amazing lessons that actually feel like games. Jeremy Ellis says: 'My family has been teaching and performing music for 100 years, and the idea of continuing that lineage into modern technology has always been a part of what moves me. Learn to play tracks from the likes of DJ Jazzy Jeff, Gaslamp Killer, Nick Hook, Mark de Clive-Lowe and Jeremy Ellis. Melodics is working with some amazing artists to make lessons. It also learns as you play, and after going through some of the basics, it suggests lessons to help hone your talents further. The real beauty of Melodics is that it listens to how you play, and gives you instant visual feedback on your timing and accuracy. Many of these lessons have been created by artists such as DJ Jazzy Jeff and Nick Hook. Melodics changes all that by taking the musician through step-by-step lessons, starting with simple patterns and building up to more complex structures. Yet pad drumming is hard to learn, and even harder to perfect. And drum pads are used by everyone from indie-electro band CHVRCHES to pad-drum protege and member of The Roots, Jeremy Ellis. It has become an essential tool for DJs, producers, beatmakers and musicians - in the studio and on stage. If you’re a fan of electronically-flavoured music, you’ll likely be familiar with the concept of pad drumming, which is also known as finger drumming or cue point drumming. “It’s a cool way to learn to play beats and a great way to sharpen your skills.” It’s a fun and addictive app that adapts to your abilities and musical tastes to help you get better at pad drumming, faster.ĭJ Jazzy Jeff is working on turning some exclusive tracks into lessons. Melodics is part game, part beatmaking software. dominant hand (my right) plays a main beat leaving left hand to, e.g tweak drum synth or throw in percussion shots.Created by former Serato CEO, Sam Gribben, MELODICS is a brand new product that partners with iconic artists to teach real world skills in the fast-growing performance genre of pad drumming.

2-handed where both hands always alternate left-right-left-right on the smallest subdivision of pattern.

This layout seems to work out good for three main approaches:

Melodics finger drumming