Intresting Subject, Drums and musical ideas |
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Intresting Subject, Drums and musical ideas |
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Jan 15 2015, 05:58 PM |
I agree with your last conclusions. The best we can do to get the creative process flowing is to go for the easier way that is basically create some simple beats that keep the tempo and helps to hear a more "complete" version of the song. Kris tought and suggestions are exactly what happens to me, and his solutions are also the ones that mostly work here, except that "virtual drummer" thing that I don't know but know I'm totally curious.
I did a quick search with the words virtual drummer and I got this site that has a virtual drummer, easy to set, with some presets and the possibility of edition, maybe you can use it for practice and to get used to drum grooves: http://www.virtualdrumming.com/drums/windo...um-machine.html Joining a real drummer is something that I really suggest. It's awesome how much your ideas can grow and appear when you have a person that thinks everything rhythmically. Try it, or maybe some drum classes to get into it? https://www.guitarmasterclass.net/instructor/Stole-/ -------------------- My lessons
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Jan 15 2015, 11:53 PM |
Joining a real drummer is something that I really suggest. It's awesome how much your ideas can grow and appear when you have a person that thinks everything rhythmically. Finding a real drummer is the hardest thing to do! But if you find one, you're golden! -------------------- The more I practice, the more I wish I had time to practice!
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Jan 16 2015, 12:50 AM |
Sounds to me like you're have some odd time based ideas initially, and then having to compromise them to fit the drum loops you have? If you want to keep the creative process flowing you could do as you said above and have a small library of basic drums for each time sig to hand. But as you jam to them to find the right one you may risk adapting the idea naturally to whatever you're playing to, this sounds risky to me if you'd like to keep it as close as possible to what's in your head, or what you originally intended. If you can jam the idea ok to a metronome why not record it, and then figure out the time signatures on playback, then make a basic beat to that signature, to make sure it fits properly. That way you have the idea captured no matter what. The idea of adapting ideas to make them fit something that isn't quite how you wanted it to go could get really frustrating! I second this! +1 I've had some recording sessions where I knew how the guitars were to be, but couldn't find *any* loops with the breaks I needed, so I layed out a basic beat, recorded the guitar parts to the basic beat, then went back and filled inthe drums on the timeline based on the guitar riffs! Then I re-recorded the guitars to the drums. It's a lot of work, but it works. -------------------- The more I practice, the more I wish I had time to practice!
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