I second that emotion. However, I completely understand the concept and desire for canned patterns. They can really speed up the process. All my stuff is composed with the same care I would give any other instrument. I like to make the drums sound as live and realistic as possible. I've considered putting time and effort into a website that focuses on drum programming. I've been afraid of it, since I hesitate to call myself an expert, not being a trained percussionist. I may do this anyway just for fun. Meanwhile, here's a happy little rock diversion that came out sounding pretty natural, despite it's barrelhouse pace. The fills don't repeat in any noticeable fashion, and the "feel" remains human even though it's rigidly controlled by my computer and DB. http://webpages.charter.net/mcarlyle/sounds/drumplay.mp3 adrian.delso@btopenworld.com wrote:
The indefatigable Carl Edlund Anderson recommended "The Drummer's Bible", which I will certainly check out.
The reason I'm writing this is I've noticed a few of you proposing to develop some stock patterns to speed things up.
May I beg you to reconsider?
These are fine for practice - basically drum loops - but if you write songs, then I would strongly recommend that you always write your drum parts, afresh every time. If you like to hang the melody and lyric together and fit your drums to that afterwards, then write to a metronome or click track. Otherwise, creating new rhythms can really ignite your song construction and phrasing. Also, you need to put the fills in at the appropriate moments and these should not always be in the same place in all your material! Should they?
Hope I haven't misunderstood. Anyone agree/disagree/care to discuss?
atb
Adrian
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