Electronic Dance Music Grooves: House, Techno, Hip-Hop, Dubstep and More! (Quick Pro Guides)

1 on a 1-10 skill level. If you are a beginner at this then I guess its alright information, if you got this to hopefully find some interesting grooves, this is not the book. Rob Papen's Punch drum synth has way better midi clips that can be exported and then tweaked.This was a waste of money. The thing that I found the biggest let down was the mention of dark techno, tribal techno and many more grooves.... where are they?Check the sounds in the ableton project after installing the pack (loads fine, not sure what the other reviews are on about), the dnb and dubstep beats... just terrible. I get that taking on a book like this, we can't expect killer grooves across all genres, thats not the point, but yeah, its probably better to have a more focused book on one genre and really explore it. This book just outputs boring, mainstream grooves.

A great reference book for existing, "Of course I knew that!" riffs plus help to find/write some more

This is ridiculously brokenFirst, the book starts by referring to the "Included Online Media" as being on the desktop, without any way to get that content. After going over the book many times and trying to contact the author and editor, I finally found a URL and secret code inside a title page glued to the front cover.Next was downloading... the 900MB+ file transfer kept getting aborted, getting me nowhere; There are individual links for smaller files on the download pages, from which I was finally able to get the media content.To my surprise, the folders from the files and the folder names in the book don't match. The downloaded archives also include folders with the same name but different content, creating extraction conflicts.By page 7, we are told to use the "House" drum kit, which isn't included in the media content. I hope to get something from this book, but so far it has only being a frustrating debugging experience.Another surprise was that the book, with description "Whatever your preferred DAW is", is actually about Ableton Live; It starts with instructions to install Ableton Live trial, then goes on to introduce Ableton Live's interface, and the media content is for Ableton Live only.

This book is a total disaster. There are a number of missing drum kits in the downloadable content. And even the drum kits that are there have missing audio files. Although there is definitely some useful info in the book somewhere along the line someone at Hal Leonard stop caring about this project.The book also reference additional video content that is included. IT IS NOT. None of the promised tutorials are there. Also in many instances patterns are copied. For example Electro 14 and electro 16 are the same exact pattern. its ridiculous. Also sometimes the copy (the written text) does not match up with whats happening in the pattern.The book has potential but because of the inconsistency between the book and the media content provided it becomes useless and frustrating. I would not recommend this book to anyone but especially not for a beginner or someone who is not already familiar with building their own drum kits.If I was Josh Bess I would be embarrassed to have my name associated with it. Very unprofessional.

I have never written an amazon review for a book, but after working with this book for a while there are a few things that really ticked me off.First, there is alot of content that you can download so that you can do the examples and drum patterns in the book. They include drum racks put together with simpler and the samples in a separate folder. When you try to use the drum rack, ableton is unable to find the samples. So, you need to put both the drumracks and the samples into the user library and use the "manage user library" function to try to link the samples with the drumracks. It doesn't work for all of the samples. If you want to work through the examples your self you will waste alot of time trying to get the drumracks to work.The other thing that torques me about the book is that the editor didn't put any effort into making the book readable. The drum patterns are screen shots from ableton. In general, it is difficult to read the drum patterns. Some of them you can read, and some you cannot. The screen shots are grey scale images and the more complicated drum patterns are not readable because they are too small and there is no contrast between the text and the background. Look at page 200 or 201 for example.I do not like the book.