Hello, my dear, after a long break.
Today we will continue to discuss the topic of creating a basic bit in hip hop music.

The basis is the rhythm of the song and its tempo. The hip-hop tempo usually fluctuates between 90 and 98 BMP (beats per minute). There are faster songs, but these are exceptions.

We will now focus on creating the basic bit.

We create a beat (theory)

The beat includes the most often: snare drum, kick and hi-hat (parts of percussion).

These three components give the song a tempo, and the rest is matched to it: vocal, melodic line and additions.

The basic bit looks like this: S In SS S W (S-Kick w-snare) the hihat line is generally repeated non-stop as note 8 or 16. Of course, this bit can be freely modified. An example of such a modification is:

S In SW SS S In SS S W (SS two kick hits quickly next to each other) etc. etc. can be changed as much as you like.
It only depends on your creativity.

We are transferring the theory to the DAW

After firing up our DAW, we have already created 3 instruments (snare drum, kick and hi-hat)

It is known that the bit will be repeated so just a short piece would be enough to loosen up later.
We start from the foot. Click on the instrument and when highlighted, select the tool to draw and create the drawing as here:

Fig. 1. Draw tool

Fig. 2. What we have to draw

Now, after double-clicking in this rectangle, another window will be opened, ie a piano roll.
This is the basic edtor midi in cubase in which we can write midi notes.
On the left side we can see the keyboard - after pressing the key we will hear the assigned one
to him the sound.

We also choose a tool to draw and create something like that. I have the currently selected 1/16 grid, i.e. all the notes that I insert will be 16 note.

It should give you something like this:

https://dsound.audio/#/@masakabra/stopa-solo

We close this window and proceed to create snare beats. We mark the snare instrument and draw the same rectangle as at the foot.

After opening, we can wave the placement of the notes.
Remember that the snare drum is going alternately so that's why it's like that. We will also use the 1/16 grid here.

and it sounds more or less like this: (snare drum alone) https://dsound.audio/#/@masakabra/werbel-solo

And here together the snare drum: https://dsound.audio/#/@masakabra/werbelstopa

So he is starting to remember something. We are slowly approaching the completion of our first bit
Only hihat left us now.

Again, we draw a window like the previous two and arrange the notes in this way:

and it sounds more or less like this (hi-hat solo): https://dsound.audio/#/@masakabra/hihat-solo

As you noticed, I used a 1/32 grid in this case. It was about the density of the hi-hat sound and the fact that it must be faster than the impact of the foot and the snare drum.

and the whole thing sounds like this: https://dsound.audio/#/@masakabra/calosc-bit

You can, of course, combine different things with hi-hat like opening a closure, here and there, but here in the tutorial we made it very simple.

And here's how you see and hear we've reached the end of today's episode.

I cordially invite you to comment on the post and ask questions. In the next episode, I will try to answer them.

And in the next episode, we'll create a basic bit for disco-polo music.
I greet you cordially.