Hey man, to continue our discussion, I was curious to ask (so that we may see how your writing process occurs) how do you write the drums at this point when having a riff?
Here's how I'm doing it:
- record the riff with a click while tying to play it as accurate and tight as possible - clean playing helps out a lot in hearing formulas and various accents!
- think on what kind of feel should I give to that riff - I could give it a half time feel maybe.
- place the kick drums and snares
- find the important accents of the groove and highlight them with cymbals
- come up with interesting breaks and fills in respect to the riff
- take a look at it once more and see if any better ideas arise from writing the drums.
- I erase the initial guitar recording and do it once more having the drums behind for increased balance
- polish up things by humanizing the drum groove - working with velocities so that it may acquire dynamics!
These are the main steps I take when dealing with this - hope it helps!
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