lol. talk about a time saver! what DAW are you using? I'll have to look into this drum map thing. MIDI is confusing as crap.
Probably has a lot to do with the midi editor in Reaper. Never used Reaper so don't know for sure.
Basic lesson in music theory:
1-2-3-4
That is all!!!
That's the main thing. Having said what I said about vocabulary, etc....it really isn't that important to know and practice all the rudiments, and for that matter, you do many of them without realizing it. I've heard double-strokes and flams in your drumming, whether you know you're doing them or not.
That's the main thing. Having said what I said about vocabulary, etc....it really isn't that important to know and practice all the rudiments, and for that matter, you do many of them without realizing it. I've heard double-strokes and flams in your drumming, whether you know you're doing them or not.
A lot of rudiments and techniques are about as important as knowing how to do a 5-finger hammer-on on guitar. It might have come in handy during a 2 week period in 1983, but it's just a cheesy exercise in acrobatics.
My favorite bands have the simplest drummers. I've never liked a band for the drummer, it's always been the songs and the guitars. I think I was supposed to be a guitar player, because that's always been what made a sing cool for me or not, since I was a kid.
As far as being a virtuoso, the so-called "technical" drummers out there generally bore me, even though I can appreciate their talent. I'd rather listen to "Back in Black" or "Machine Head" all the way through than have to endure one Dave Weckl "song".
Same thing with any of these guys like Satriani. Behind the guitar aerobics, there's some really mundane shit going on.
It's tough to say without hearing you play, but if you can keep a steady beat, with the hi-hats playing 8th notes, your kik on 1 & 3, snare on 2 & 4, you're a good part of the way there. I think the best thing to do is find songs in the styles you think you might want to learn and see how the snare and kik interact to form the beat. Take a few basic ones that you think will give you a bit of trouble and get them down. Eventually, the hard ones will be the easy ones, and the really hard ones will only take a bit more work.OK, so with that in mind....speaking to a guitar/keys player who's sat behind a kit and played some real basic beats maybe a dozen times in his life and that was a long time ago...what would be your most simplified steps for learning basic stuff and developing basic timing skills for doing simple 4/4, Kick/Snare/Kick-Kick/Snare kind of Rock/Pop beats....with the occasional roll/fill for accents....???
Well, like I said, without being there with you, it's hard to give you specific stuff to practice, and I'm not going to start writing out beats. Just like I'm sure it would be pretty hard for you to help me here if I asked "I can sort of play guitar. What should I practice?". You'd probably say it's hard to help specifically but practice your chords, changing chords, learn a blues scale and listen to songs while trying to figure out what the guitar player's doing.
