- Dec 16, 2010
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If you are a one-man songwriter like I am, and you play guitar/bass/keys, but not necessarily drums, it can be frustrating. You program a drum part using your keyboard (first kick and snare, then rides or high hats, then crashes) The problem is, your drummer comes along and say's, "dude, you got the ride, cymbal crash, and snare, and 2 floor toms all ON ONE HIT!! I only have two hands!!!".
Sound familiar?
So you clean that up by going through the event list and deleting some instruments.
Also, I have two elements I can pull out of my tool bag to come up with fills/grooves.....
....Slam Tracks is an online midi drum track loop provider that works great and is only $10.
....Also, I have a bunch of midi and kar files of cover songs (Led Zep, Black Sabbath, RHC Peppers, even Big Band stuff) and copy and paste a few meas in my song for fills and grooves. The Vanbasco website is good for some of these files.
Hope this helps.
Sound familiar?
So you clean that up by going through the event list and deleting some instruments.
Also, I have two elements I can pull out of my tool bag to come up with fills/grooves.....
....Slam Tracks is an online midi drum track loop provider that works great and is only $10.
....Also, I have a bunch of midi and kar files of cover songs (Led Zep, Black Sabbath, RHC Peppers, even Big Band stuff) and copy and paste a few meas in my song for fills and grooves. The Vanbasco website is good for some of these files.
Hope this helps.