Message 6/12
Date: 11-Mar-01 @ 12:42 AM -
RE: I thought we were talking about drums
as someone already said -
1. to get your perfect grooves
not only try different time offsets with the 2nd 4th
but also (and most importantly!) vary velocity on the
whole pattern - : make every second of your normal closed hats say half the vel and so on - u'll hear how
that sort of thing injects a new groove into the beat.
2. TUNE your drums so that the whole pattern creates a
melody as well as tight beat.
3.LAYER your drums untill u get the desired sound - layer 3 (or more...) snares on top of each other 2 get 1 fat and chunky sounding snare, do the same with hi hats, etc.
4.STUDY and grab the grooves from your favorite tunes - take your time 2 recycle(!) the sampled beat and study
the structure of it in sequencer (after importing the recycle! generated midi file) and take notice exactly where the different drums are playing and even extract the actual groove from the midi file to apply it 2 your
patterns - u culd easily build a massive library of grooves just by doing the above while learning directly
from your fav top pros!
Question: can u visualize the drum loop when u hear it,
how exactly would it look like on your sequencer grid?
(including velocity and timie offsets)
If no then study and try 2 recreate those drums heard on fav records untill u can and then... Mmmm then comes
the time when u can call yourself a drum god
Happy drumming - dada.