Drum Lessons, Learning to program drums |
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Drum Lessons, Learning to program drums |
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Sep 6 2014, 05:26 PM |
This is a very interesting topic. From my experience, a good drum arrangement can convert a ok song in a great one. It's awesome how important the right groove with the right fills and arrangements are for a song in progress. Every time I feel stuck with a song, I start to work on drum details, and give it a more realistic arrangement and sound and most of the times, the new track gives me more ideas to continue the song.
I think that the best way to improve our drum composition ability is transcribing the drums of songs that we like. Record the drum tracks in the same way that you record or write your own tracks and you will expand your drum vocabulary, you will learn which things work, which ones note and your tracks will definitely sound better. -------------------- My lessons
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Sep 6 2014, 06:20 PM |
Thanks Gab! Here's how I plan to do my first drum cover of Greg Howes button up. I'm loading the original version in logic as reference. I'm also loading the backing track to isolate drum and bass. Next I plan to start matching every bass and snare and continue through the kit 1 by 1. After that I'm going to work on the bass guitar then rhythm then lead. How does that sound? yes, that sounds great. Using the backing track is very helpful because you can focus on drum details. It's also important to have a good Drum vsti, what are you using? Once you write the different sections it's important to work on humanizing the drums. A drummer cannot play everything the the exact intensity and tight as a machine so giving some variations will make your drum track sound more real. I don't use logic, but maybe this videos can help you: -------------------- My lessons
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Sep 7 2014, 09:44 PM |
Check this out. I signed up to this course online on programming drums. I'm halfway through the series of videos.
CREATIVE LIVE METAL DRUM PROGRAMMING |
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Sep 8 2014, 11:30 AM |
I've linked to these videos in another thread, but I thought they were worth sharing again:
And then these might be helpful as well: |
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Sep 8 2014, 12:23 PM |
Check this out. I signed up to this course online on programming drums. I'm halfway through the series of videos. CREATIVE LIVE METAL DRUM PROGRAMMING Hey Fireball I will definitely check out those lessons! Thanks Hey JiM I was thinking that, regardless of how much you love Greg's works, this could be a bit of a hinderance to your initial purpose. I would choose an easier piece that could provide results a bit faster than this one. Try to think about songs which won't take up months to learn and master. You need to go through as many examples as possible, in respect to learning and applying drum grooves, fills and styles and a song at this level, would kind of get you sidetracked. Please let me know what your thoughts are Hey Cosmin you know how inspiration can take you somewhere? I'm inspired to drive the road even if it may be a dead end. Ive commit to at least making the drum track which is moving along quite nicely. I know that the guitar parts are out of my league but something tells me to go ahead and try. If I get to a point where I'm going circles or its too frustrating then Ill pull the plug. So far I'm having fun. I've linked to these videos in another thread, but I thought they were worth sharing again: And then these might be helpful as well: Hey Man I believe your post was the one that really got me going about writing drums. I have seen the first two and put the second set in que. Thanks for the sharing the vids man! |
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Sep 8 2014, 02:16 PM |
There is a lot of great stuff on this topic. Just to add some more cool tutorials I would like to remind you that we have some nice drum lessons at GMC, did you remember it?
https://www.guitarmasterclass.net/instructor/Kyle-Logue/ -------------------- My lessons
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Sep 13 2014, 03:32 PM |
Hey Jim there's a lot of detail in drumming as it is in playing the guitar - I am very glad that you are starting to learn and observe! Will you share your progress so far?
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