16 Legendary Beats - A short history of the 808 🟥🟧🟨⬜ | Drum Patterns Explained

► Support us on Patreon and get access to lots of drum patterns, cheat sheets and more! The Roland TR-808 is the most famous and influential drum machine ever created. Today we’re looking at its history - and we’ll do so by showing you 16 of our favourite 808 patterns, spanning across four decades and beginning with its birth in 1980. We’ll be using the OXI One as a sequencer so you can see all the different instruments and you can try the patterns on your drum machine or in your DAW. Extra special thanks to @Jaelights for your valuable feedback, it really improved the episode :) Featured drum patterns (transcriptions available on Patreon): Yellow Magic Orchestra - 1000 Knives Afrika Bambaataa & The Soulsonic Force - Planet Rock Marvin Gaye - Sexual Healing T La Rock & Jazzy Jay - It’s Yours Beastie Boys - Paul Revere Skinny Puppy - Dig It LL Cool J - Going Back to Cali Whitney Houston - I Wanna Dance With Somebody A Guy Called Gerald - Voodoo Ray Aphex Twin - XTAL Drexciya - Andreaen Sand Dunes Missy Elliott - Lose Control / Cybotron - Clear Daft Punk - Technologic Kimbra - Cameo Lover Childish Gambino - Sweatpants . - Borders Gear used: 8raw8 OXI One DJ TechTools Midi Fighter 3D Arturia CMI V Beatbunny Cabasa Neural DSP Archetype Gojira Arturia Keystep Arturia MicroFreak Arturia Pigments Arturia OP-Xa V ► Instagram #808 #drummachine #drumpattern #beatmaker #beatmaking #electronicmusic #musicanalysis #synthesizer #musicproduction #roland #history #drums #80s #80smusic Image credits: Bryan Pocius - Roland TR-808 from the Musical Instrument Museum, Phoenix, AZ 0:00 Introduction 0:56 Yellow Magic Orchestra - 1000 Knives 1:40 Afrika Bambaataa & The Soulsonic Force - Planet Rock 3:03 Marvin Gaye - Sexual Healing 4:54 T La Rock & Jazzy Jay - It’s Yours 5:56 Beastie Boys - Paul Revere 6:41 Skinny Puppy - Dig It 7:51 LL Cool J - Going Back to Cali 9:02 Whitney Houston - I Wanna Dance With Somebody 9:53 A Guy Called Gerald - Voodoo Ray 10:43 Aphex Twin - XTAL 11:44 Drexciya - Andreaen Sand Dunes 12:35 Missy Elliott - Lose Control / Cybotron - Clear 13:29 Daft Punk - Technologic 14:20 Kimbra - Cameo Lover 15:11 Childish Gambino - Sweatpants 16:22 . - Borders 17:14 End Jam Produced by Jean-Claude Dirckx and Sophie Hoppstädter