Electronic Dance Music Grooves: House, Techno, Hip-Hop, Dubstep and More!

by Josh Bess

Electronic Dance Music Grooves provides creative insights to help you understand how to build exciting, powerful, and compelling EDM grooves. Whether you're into techno, trance, dubstep, drum 'n' bass, garage, trap, or hip-hop, author Ableton Live Certified Trainer, and noted EDM performer Josh Bess helps you take your skills to the next level with an extremely efficient and intelligent groove-making system. And, as an added bonus – providing a valuable basis for you own creations – this book describes the history behind the development of multiple electronic music styles.

A MIDI map, designed to make it simple to use the included grooves and samples with virtually any modern DAW, accompanies each style. Whether your preferred DAW is Ableton Live, Reason, Pro Tools, Logic, or almost any of the other popular music production and performance software applications, you'll quickly be equipped to incorporate these grooves and samples into your own creative workflow.

Samples and sessions, provided to support your creativity and electronic dance music production, are delivered online to provide access to all of the content, whether you're using a desktop, laptop, or mobile device.

276 pages, Paperback

First published April 6, 2015