listennext: shaped noise
empty so far
nothing in it yet. this lesson adds the hats
hats on the offbeat
Listen to the hats between the kicks. Try to hum their note. You can't, because there isn't one. Hats are noise: every frequency at once, all jumbled, with no repeating shape. That's the hiss you hear from an untuned radio, and it's the raw material of hats, claps, cymbals and snares.