fat_fleet
Swollen Member
Well, plenty of bands have two drummers and do that stuff organically.
Or I should say "have had" and "did" since bands don't have drummers anymore.
Well, plenty of bands have two drummers and do that stuff organically.
Well, plenty of bands have two drummers and do that stuff organically.
Lynrd skynrd, .38 special, and...Well, plenty of bands have two drummers and do that stuff organically.
Now that the studio is gone and I moved 2000 across the country into a small-ish house in a neighborhood, real drums are just not practical. I sold the drums and got a good deal on a V-drum kit and use either my drumagog samples or Steven Slate's. It's really the only way I can get it done in the situation I'm in now.
Lynrd skynrd, .38 special, and...
I know there was a few more, but has anyone done it post 1983?
I think it just faded away for some reason....and then with the DAW and all that it can do, the term "programming" came into use.
Speaking of MIDI drum sequencing....man, now that was a real PITA!
That shit took a LOT of work to even get a half-decent drum track...but today's app from Slate, Toontrack, AD....blow that out of the water. You're still doing MIDI sequencing, but the quality of the apps both for sequencing duties and the samples they come with, is just miles beyond those Cubase/Atari days!
Or I should say "have had" and "did" since bands don't have drummers anymore.
See, I feel like playing with sticks makes it still "real drums" however digitally enhanced, but I don't know much about the V-kit world.
Perhaps in sound it is pretty much the same, and I do love a lot of the sample sounds. But in feel, timing and especially in the composition of the drums you need a real good sampler to call the two similar, imo.It's just electronic drums. It's pretty much the same as sample replacing real.drums...
That I can loop different trance-ish beats and synth parts in GarageBand to make something that sounds like trance doesn't mean that it is good trance... I've got the idea that off lately people see to think that when they can sequence a drum part they don't need a drummer anymore, while a lot of people overlook that the composing also takes a certain amount of mastery.
I'd be interested to know how you arrived at this conclusion - seems like quite a large assumption to be making.Although drummers seem a bit of a dying race
Perhaps in sound it is pretty much the same, and I do love a lot of the sample sounds. But in feel, timing and especially in the composition of the drums you need a real good sampler to call the two similar, imo.
Although drummers seem a bit of a dying race there are new bands coming up that use real drummers with real skill Royal Blood for example, or this Dutch band Kensington. Both really good example of bands in which the drum part takes their songs to a higher level, more then being just the beat because a song needs drums...
I guess a mistake that is often made is that two compose/write good drumming parts wheter on the acoustic kit, electronic kit or sampled takes someone who is good at writing drumparts. That I can loop different trance-ish beats and synth parts in GarageBand to make something that sounds like trance doesn't mean that it is good trance... I've got the idea that off lately people see to think that when they can sequence a drum part they don't need a drummer anymore, while a lot of people overlook that the composing also takes a certain amount of mastery.
I'd be interested to know how you arrived at this conclusion - seems like quite a large assumption to be making.
Then.... What was that post just about?