In this tutorial, we’ll program a beat inspired by Kid A while looking at production and mixing tricks for working with multiple low end drum samples. A (very) swung floor tom part is layered with two kicks, with the tom’s tail adding some sustained bass. The beat of the title track ‘Kid A’ sounds like a hybrid of acoustic drums and vintage drum machine samples, but its true character lies in the low end. The album is also heavily influenced by ambient music and features brass, strings and other instruments with heavy processing. Producers Buzz is a music production resource website providing free music production tutorials, royalty free drum kits, music production software, sound effects, vst plug-ins, soundfonts, fl studio project files and instrumental beats. Kid A was the fourth album by Radiohead, who helped bring the incorporation of electronic elements and textures in rock music to a wider audience. Despite the album coming after the more rock-heavy and internationally successful OK Computer, songwriter Thom Yorke chose a different route with Kid A, using modular synthesizers, sampling and loops to bring the music into new territory. In this Beat Dissected, we celebrate the 20th anniversary of Radiohead’s ‘Kid A’ by working through some of the drum programming techniques used in the title track.

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