Lo-Fi Drum Pattern

Slow, heavily swung and filtered. The lazy feel comes from swing, not from playing off the grid.

78 BPM30% swingLo-fi

Steps

Warm, filtered, knocking drums for lo-fi and boom bap

808 bass & chords

Gm7 → C7 → Fmaj7 → Dm7

Chord sound
808
CHD
Gm7 · then C7, Fmaj7, Dm7 on later loops

The 808 follows the chord root in each bar; set a step's offset to walk the bassline. Pads hold until the next chord hit. Stabs are short.

Click a step once for a hit, twice for an accent, three times to clear. Space plays/stops, T taps tempo, R makes a random beat.

Export
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How to program it

  1. Tempo 70–90 BPM.
  2. Snare on 2 and 4 (steps 5 and 13); a lazy kick on steps 1, 7 and 10.
  3. 8th hats with a quiet shaker on the in-between 16ths.
  4. Swing 25–35% and a low-pass filtered kit (Dusty Boom Bap).

The grid above is already loaded with this pattern: press Play, change a step, then download it as WAV or MP3. Want a different version? Open it in the full beat maker with the AI pattern writer and coach.

For a whole page about this style, see the lo-fi beat maker.

Step chart · one bar of 16th notes, numbers mark the beats

Questions

How do you make lo-fi drums?

Use a slow tempo, heavy swing, soft hats and filter off the high frequencies. Many producers also lower drum volume under the chords so they sit back in the mix.

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