Hi!
So glad to be a part of this community and look forward to making lots of friends and sharing my passion for music. I'm a weekend warrior with a little basement studio whose best days in college age were spent jamming with my friends. My parents encouraged (often forced) me to play music growing up and I found a group of friends in my early twenties who loved to unwind by jamming out. I taught myself many instruments so that I could be the guy who could always fill in when someone was missing. I've spent the last 4 or 5 years trying to advance my skills on the drums and learn to record us when I manage to get the guys together and jam. I have 6 guitars, 2 basses, a micro korg & keyboard, an array of amps, a license for Abelton and a focusrite scarlett 18i20 as well as various microphones.
Anyway my question, and if someone can point me to a better area to post this separately please do:
Its rare I get my friends to come jam. I love playing drums and am trying hard to improve but I get so bored just practicing rudiments etc so I have been trying to loop myself on bass (my primary instrument) and play drums to it. I have been having a hell of a time getting the timing right on a loop. I got a metronome but even with that, it's so hard to get a loop of bass that doesn't eventually go off time and then screw up my drumming.
Any advice?
So glad to be a part of this community and look forward to making lots of friends and sharing my passion for music. I'm a weekend warrior with a little basement studio whose best days in college age were spent jamming with my friends. My parents encouraged (often forced) me to play music growing up and I found a group of friends in my early twenties who loved to unwind by jamming out. I taught myself many instruments so that I could be the guy who could always fill in when someone was missing. I've spent the last 4 or 5 years trying to advance my skills on the drums and learn to record us when I manage to get the guys together and jam. I have 6 guitars, 2 basses, a micro korg & keyboard, an array of amps, a license for Abelton and a focusrite scarlett 18i20 as well as various microphones.
Anyway my question, and if someone can point me to a better area to post this separately please do:
Its rare I get my friends to come jam. I love playing drums and am trying hard to improve but I get so bored just practicing rudiments etc so I have been trying to loop myself on bass (my primary instrument) and play drums to it. I have been having a hell of a time getting the timing right on a loop. I got a metronome but even with that, it's so hard to get a loop of bass that doesn't eventually go off time and then screw up my drumming.
Any advice?