Chris F
New member
Hi everyone, haven't been around here for a while, but could use a bit of advice and since the last time I asked here, Harvey Gerst made a legendary megathread out of it, I thought to try again on a different subject.
Basically, I'm a music professor at the University of Louisville and am looking for a program to use primarily in teaching bass lessons (mostly double bass, but some electric bass as well). I've read a number of the "EZdrummer vs. everything else" threads, and most of the programs that I watch youtube demos of sound perfectly good for my purposes. The issue I need help with is that I want to use these grooves as basically a glorified groove metronome for lessons, and won't likely be using it inside a DAW for the normal purposes that these things seem to be designed for. So if you were to recommend a standalone drum/groove program for this purpose for a music teacher, what would your top choice (or 2 or 3) be?
Some things that would be useful:
- Ease of use: Something that can easily call up a groove in a variety of styles without asking me 1000 questions about details
- Mac friendly (although I doubt that's a huge issue these days)
- Length of pattern: one bar is fine, but longer patterns are more interesting to practice with
- Sounds: I mainly teach acoustic-type music (jazz,world, folk, indie, motown-esque, funk, etc)
- Easy to change tempo from within the main standalone interface
Any/all advice appreciated, thanks!
Basically, I'm a music professor at the University of Louisville and am looking for a program to use primarily in teaching bass lessons (mostly double bass, but some electric bass as well). I've read a number of the "EZdrummer vs. everything else" threads, and most of the programs that I watch youtube demos of sound perfectly good for my purposes. The issue I need help with is that I want to use these grooves as basically a glorified groove metronome for lessons, and won't likely be using it inside a DAW for the normal purposes that these things seem to be designed for. So if you were to recommend a standalone drum/groove program for this purpose for a music teacher, what would your top choice (or 2 or 3) be?
Some things that would be useful:
- Ease of use: Something that can easily call up a groove in a variety of styles without asking me 1000 questions about details
- Mac friendly (although I doubt that's a huge issue these days)
- Length of pattern: one bar is fine, but longer patterns are more interesting to practice with
- Sounds: I mainly teach acoustic-type music (jazz,world, folk, indie, motown-esque, funk, etc)
- Easy to change tempo from within the main standalone interface
Any/all advice appreciated, thanks!