I am a guitar player/singer, and I use a Zoom PS02 for storing ideas and parts of songs. My problem is that I can't get to grips with the built in drum/bass patterns so that I can actually lay down a whole song.
It's a question of understanding 'measures'. I assume that these are the same as bars in written music, but even though everything I write is in 4/4, I keep missing where to put fills and rests,etc. I kind of count in my head and stop the playback, enter a 1/4,2/4 rest,etc .and then save the result. When I come to put the audio track on, the rest is either too long, too short or in the wrong place. Same thing with fills.
Maybe it's just a question of trial and error, and it doesn't help that you can't cut and paste like on a software system, but making backing tracks which do more than just plug along for the whole song is a real pain. Does anybody have any tips for entering fills and rests into backing tracks?
It's a question of understanding 'measures'. I assume that these are the same as bars in written music, but even though everything I write is in 4/4, I keep missing where to put fills and rests,etc. I kind of count in my head and stop the playback, enter a 1/4,2/4 rest,etc .and then save the result. When I come to put the audio track on, the rest is either too long, too short or in the wrong place. Same thing with fills.
Maybe it's just a question of trial and error, and it doesn't help that you can't cut and paste like on a software system, but making backing tracks which do more than just plug along for the whole song is a real pain. Does anybody have any tips for entering fills and rests into backing tracks?