Creating Drum Beats with MIDI (Part IV) In this series, we cover the basics of creating drum grooves with MIDI in Ableton Live. This is useful for producing your own patterns. This skill set will also enable you to create your own original synth parts, which ultimately gives you the ability to compose full songs. Use this skill to your advantage to add small grooves or drum loops to your DJ live set, or produce full tracks to become the next top DJ!